The Latest Breaking News from Freemasons

A letter before action calls on the Met to suspend the decision to force officers to publicly declare membership, or face a judicial review

The force says the move was aimed at boosting transparency, but the organisation says it is unlawful and discriminatory

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

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

Organisation says it regrets renting premises for event with US commentator Tucker Carlson and will give fee to charity

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…

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

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has been criticised in an independent investigation

This beautiful landscape features “patchwork fields, coaching inns and pretty villages”