Undercover at Britain’s ‘conspiracy school’

A group of former teachers and a cryptocurrency trader are teaching at a suspected illegal school, Universallkidz in Manchester, in which children are being educated to become the next generation of conspiracy theorists. The Times’ Tom Ball went undercover as a teacher to find out more.

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Guest: Tom Ball, Reporter, The Times.

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