In September 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Mark Steele addressed a packed Trafalgar Square. Hundreds of protesters surrounded him, their placards declaring “I do not consent”, “Save our human rights”, and “Fuck the world order”.
After a pause in his speech, Steele lifted a radiation meter and pointed it into the air. “5,000 millivolts! You are cooking the children to death! This is a crime! Arrest the criminals in the telecommunications industry!”
In the five years since he made that speech, Steele’s theories have found a new audience. Alongside figures such as David Icke and Piers Corbyn, he has become a leading voice in the anti-5G movement, which claims that modern telecommunications infrastructure is harmful to health and part of a secret “globalist depopulation agenda”. In 2021, an anti-5G activist from London was convicted of terror offences after calling for 5G towers to be bombed with Semtex. Since June 2023, 16 arson attacks on 5G towers have taken place in West Belfast.
As the founder of the political group Save Us Now, Steele regularly appears at rallies and addresses more than 20,000 subscribers on his Telegram channel. “Trafalgar Square was a big turnout,” Steele, now in his mid-60s, told me earlier this year from his home in Gateshead. “It was brilliant.” He was wearing a pale-yellow shirt and his signature black rectangular wraparound sunglasses. They were, he explained in a thick Geordie accent, designed to shield his eyes from what he believes are harmful microwaves emitted by 5G towers, streetlights and traffic lights.
Steele describes himself as a weapons expert, claiming to have worked for years on classified defence projects. Now, he presents himself as a whistleblower, spreading the word about how 5G and telecom networks form part of a global weapons system causing illness, miscarriages and cancer.
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