Bunker-busting bunkum: events, conspiracies and the inversion of truth

Bunker-busting bunkum: events, conspiracies and the inversion of truth

‘Events, dear boy, events’. So said British prime minister Harold Macmillan on the fallibility of leaders due to unanticipated, uncontrollable factors. ‘Shit happens’, to use a slang version. But what if events are neither incidental nor – in some cases – real? Topically, should we believe that Ir