Icke in second coming

David Icke is back on stage

David Icke attracted controversy when he professed to be the son of God on the Terry Wogan show and predicted the end of the world. Many may have thought he had disappeared to his Isle of Wight retreat, never to be heard of again.

Far from it: he is back and at the weekend he addressed an audience of more than 1,000 at the Brixton Academy, each of whom had paid £22.50 for the privilege of hearing him speak.

During his performance the 51-year-old former host of BBC TV's Grandstand and ex-Coventry goalkeeper claimed:

A small group of privileged people, the "Illuminati", secretly govern the world. This group can be traced back to Babylon through the bloodline of European royal families.

The Illuminati have been the real force behind every US president ever elected.

A Nazi global government comprised of Illuminati members runs the planet by controlling a world army. A global bank dictates the world's economy, and the euro will be used to strengthen this bank's position.

The secret government uses the education system to indoctrinate children. Those who fail to react correctly are expelled to make them more likely to fail in adult life.

The talk on Saturday was the only British date in a tour that will also take the self-styled New Age preacher to Bermuda and Seattle. During his six-hour talk, Icke said the Illuminati's plan is "to create a micro-chipped population controlled by a global computer. When people talk about globalisation they are merely referring to the global centralisation of power. This power does not come from multinational corporations but the Illuminati."

Pacing the stage, flanked by two big screens, he added: "We live in a global Nazi state. We are facing the rise of the fourth Reich. This fascist global government relies on us to act like sheep and do what they tell us without thinking. If you act in a way that goes against this mentality you are mocked. People used to ridicule me. But that was then and this is now."

He appeared calm and, instead of the turquoise tracksuit he wore for his 1991 Wogan appearance (the colour, he said then, "of love and wisdom") he wore black. His racially diverse audience rapturously applauded several points and laughed at his jokes, especially those levelled at President Bush.

"Sam Summerskill, 24, an illustration agent from Peckham, said: "I think he is brilliant. I came because I was inspired by his book, Robot Rebellion. My friends think I'm a lunatic, but everything he says makes sense."

Darren Daddy, 35, a designer from Brixton, said: "As a black man who grew up in a predominantly white part of Essex, I am accustomed to the subtle forms of persecution that he describes and learned to question the society we live in and the nature of power from a very early age."

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