Wired UK: “The rise of QAnon in the UK has been as rapid as it is surprising. It is hard to attach a solid number to the British QAnon fandom – first of all because Facebook started cracking down on Q content in August, causing some groups to disappear, or to reinvent themselves as private invitation-only groups, or to decamp to other channels like Telegram or Bitchute. But it is also because – maybe exactly to dodge moderation – QAnon itself has shape-shifted, spreading under the guise of watchwords, mottos and themes rather than by mentioning Q itself. Now, for instance, QAnon has morphed into an anti-child-trafficking online campaign, alternatively called ‘Save our children’ or ‘Save the children’; the elite cabal drinking kids’ blood is not written on the tin, and an unsuspecting parent wishing to save their children from something might legitimately join a relevant social media group, before being hurled down a rabbit-hole connecting everyone from Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein to Prince Andrew to Lady Gaga to – surprise surprise – the Rothschilds.”

“The Q-UK Facebook group has over 3,000 members; Q Anon Updates is a public page with an UK-based admin, who has raked in 25,000 likes and followers since its inception in 2018. You can easily find a post explaining in detail why Boris Johnson is a ‘white hat’, a Trump ally pursuing the same pedo-elite-busting plan. But most of the groups and pages are coy about their messaging. They are ostensibly about fighting pedophilia, or about law and order in general, with the odd Q-related slogan tossed in; they might be far-right or pro-Brexit groups; or be about other conspiracy theories, from 5G-causes-Covid, to anti-vaccination panic, and use QAnon as a new framework to connect all those baseless dots. Some of the most popular Facebook pages with UK admins posting about QAnon are ostensibly about energy therapy and New Age mysticism – a common enough junction that has led to the coinage of the term ‘conspirituality.'”