The Latest Breaking News from Freemasons

Exclusive: Organisation accuses Sir Mark Rowley of religious discrimination and ‘whipping up conspiracy theories’

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 statue has long been controversial and even “stirred opposition” when it was planned over 100 years ago

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

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