Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Freemasonry

Diddy's 'Twisted' Necklace: Did Netflix Doc Just Confirm Jailed Rapper's Link to the Illuminati?

A distinctive necklace worn by Diddy in the Netflix doc Sean Combs: The Reckoning sparks massive conspiracy theories about his secret ties to the Illuminati and Freemasonry.

International Business Times UK

Met officers must tell bosses if they are Freemasons, force announces

Move comes amid fears that requirement for Freemasons to ‘protect each other’ could lead to corruption

The Guardian - UK

Met Police officers will now be forced to reveal links to secret society

Freemasons swear an oath of loyalty to the fraternity's principles and to supporting fellow members

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Forcing police officers to declare freemason membership ‘unnecessary and wrong’

An officers’ group has questioned whether the move would infringe officers’ human rights.

Evening Standard

Met considers making officers declare whether they are Freemasons

Consultation comes after concerns raised about impact of membership on ‘investigations, promotions and misconduct’

The Guardian - UK

Met Police chief may force officers to reveal Freemason ties ahead of damning TV exposé

Sir Mark Rowley acts on policy as damaging revelations set to appear in undercover BBC documentary

Evening Standard

Freemasons, homosexuals and corrupt elites in Cameroon – inside an African conspiracy theory

An unusual and fascinating new book has been written by two anthropologists, called Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment. It explores an ongoing conspiracy theory in Cameroon and neighbouring Gabon that corrupt elites spread homosexuality through their connections to secret orders like the Freemasons. They trace…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Why is QAnon afraid of the Masons?

Anti-Masonic prejudice goes back to the Nazis — and well before that. Somehow the QAnon cult has reanimated it

Salon

‘It happens again and again’: why Americans are obsessed with secret societies

From the Salem witch trials to QAnon, people have remained fixated on the idea that dark forces are controlling society, explored in a revealing new book

The Guardian - US

Nature religions are growing in Australia – though witchcraft was illegal in some territories just 10 years ago

Nature religions, commonly described as Paganism (or neo-Paganism), are growing in Australia. In the last Census, 33,148 people claimed affiliation with a nature religion: including Animism, Druidism, and the many traditions of Wicca, the most practised Pagan pathway.

The Conversation

Who are the Freemasons? Hefty donation to London fire brigade causes concern

The London fire brigade has been in hot water recently due to claims of misogyny and racism, and now its involvement with Freemasonry

Evening Standard

Satanism, Fremasonry become election topics in religious Brazil

Brazil’s presidential race took a bizarre turn this week as leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro were targeted on social media by false claims of Satanism, Freemasonry — and even cannibalism.

Tribune News Service

TikTok's Freemasons are battling the haters and conspiracy theorists

Members of the secretive fraternal organization are turning to social media in a bid to attract a younger generation.

Input

The not-so-secret life of a Freemason at the Leeds Masonic Lodge

It used to be that Freemasonry was very much a secret order, but in the days of Google and social media that’s not really possible

Leeds Live

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The sign, the handshake and the steps: inside the world of the Freemasons, 1967

Were they sinister or silly, what actually did they do? To this day no one is quite sure. By Chris Hall

Los Angeles Times

How accurate is 'Outlander's' portrayal of colonial America? We break it down

Set in North Carolina in 1773, Season 6 of Starz's "Outlander," based on Diana Gabaldon's book "A Breath of Snow and Ashes," continues the tale of Scottish heartthrob Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and time-traveling healer Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) as they face the American Revolutionary War as backcountry settlers.

People

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.