Raising Thatcher: a Japanese new religion has an important spiritual message for the UK - via the soul of a deceased former PM (Part I)
It sounded too wonderfully bonkers to resist. A Japanese séance contacting the spirit of the deceased Baroness Thatcher and quizzing her for guidance on Brexit? And on Friday 13th to boot? Yes please. As someone who stresses as much as anyone about the fate of our island nation as we attempt to leave the EU, and, spiritually speaking, as one who has lately oriented East as a means of bolstering his anaemic Christianity. Furthermore as a fan of Louis Theroux's earlier work, that explored deliciously countercultural worldviews as opposed to his more recent rather hand-wringing interest in junkies, convicts and otherwise blameless folk with an addiction to buying pets that might kill them, Happy Science's offer of a spiritual message from the late Iron Lady was an offer I couldn't refuse. In any case, dead or alive, she was bound to be more coherent than Emily Thornbury. ...