A lot of the work of a Local Democracy Reporter is sitting through council meetings. Everything from planning to budgeting to street cleaning is organised through these evening events, which don’t have a reputation for thrills.Politics, though, isn’t just the decisions of elected officials conducted in acronyms and spreadsheets. Politics is everywhere for those with eyes to see, and the closer you have to look, the stranger the sight.Local Democracy Reporter Daniel EssonTo that end, I recently went undercover inside an extremist sect of Catholics booted from the mainstream church, to see if the antisemitic and conspiratorial views of their...