The Devil's Hour
A timely coincidence
In recent weeks I have questioned the strange relationship of cartoonist Bob Moran with the reportedly recently deceased X user Ed Chanter (aka Ed the Techie). The foundation of my questioning was Moran’s behaviour and the inconsistencies, inaccuracies and falsehoods by which he and his friends sought to explain away his celebration of Ed. Subsequently, those same friends have sought to focus instead upon background information I provided as context to that central problem.
It has been claimed that Moran is being found “guilty by association,” but this is not possible unless those with whom he associates are guilty, in which case, why the association? Why would Moran lavish praise upon Ed Chanter? Ed was heavily involved in propping up the fake Lucy Connolly narrative and was aggressive and abusive of those, like Moran, who dared to question it.
Circumstantial evidence has been seized upon and rejected as ‘coincidence.’ Is it coincidence that Moran signs his name in capitals, ‘BOB,’ (in a way that resembles the significant freemasonic numbers, 33 and 101), and that he incorrectly claims is the only way, ‘Bob,’ can be written? Is it a coincidence that his installation artwork ‘Gotcha,’ is priced at £33,000? Was it a coincidence that tickets for his show at Dingwalls in Camden were priced at £33? When Moran chose to vent his post-lockdown frustrations in an ill-advised tweet that caused his sacking from the Telegraph, was it a coincidence that he chose to do so in the direction of ,“a high-profile media personality and alleged doctor, who was highly instrumental in enforcing Covid tyrannies, up to and including writing a fictional novel on the subject, which was passed off as a “memoir” and turned into a blockbuster ITV series,”
It seems unlikely that all of these eventualities should coincide. Even if this combination of strange occurrences is indeed coincidental, that does not explain Bob Moran’s relationship with Ed Chanter.
There are many associations and coincidences I have not yet detailed, but as I am being condemned for relying on such evidence regardless, perhaps we might consider a few more.
One of Bob Moran’s two brothers, Tom, is a screenwriter who has a curious interest in the number 33. In fact he describes it as an obsession. His series, ‘Devil’s Hour’ of 2022 depicts a character who awakens every night at 3.33am. The character’s forename, Lucy, is suggestive of Lucifer. The character’s full name, Lucy Chambers, provides another Lucy C, similar to the media character Lucy Connolly who Bob’s online friend Ed the Techie vigorously defended from questions. In gematria the initials LC provide the number 33. The name Lucy derives from the Latin word, ‘lux,’ meaning ‘light,’ with Lucifer being the ‘light-bearer,’ and light having important significance to freemasons.
Esotericfreemasons.com explains that
Pillars and Principles, A Masonic Thought Leadership Blog, (PP), adds,
“At its heart, the Craft is centered around the search for “light”—a rich metaphor encompassing knowledge,spiritual understanding, and the inner awakening that leads one to truth.This pursuit of light is not merely intellectual; it is deeply personal and profoundly transformative. It calls not just to the mind, but to the heart.”
At the series premiere of Devil’s Hour, Tom Moran described the significance of the number 33 and various associations attributed to it, but omitted to mention its importance to freemasonry. When questioned, the screenwriter included in his hopes for the show that it would give people, “hope about our capacity to overcome the darkness with love and light,” a hope redolent of the freemasonic credo, and again in gematria the two L’s can be made to give 33.
(The masons seem particularly fond of repeated letters and of literary or numerical repetition or palindromes such as, 11, 22, 33, LL, 101, and perhaps BOB. In gematria there are a variety of different numerical codes. The simplest involves ascribing a number to a letter of the alphabet so that for example A,B,C would equate to 1, 2, and 3. In this code L, C becomes 12, 3. Adding the digits 1 and 2 creates 3 so LC might be read as 33.
Another code attributes the numbers 1-9 to the letters A-I but when double figures are reached the numbers rise in tens, so the numbers 10-90 are attributed to J-R. In this system L and C become 30 and 3).
Tom Moran’s Devil’s Hour project was reported to be in development in 2019, long before the lockdowns caused an increased awareness of the significance of the number 33. It is likely then that Bob Moran knew of the associations of the number 33 since at least 2019, if not before, which opens up the possibility of him knowing about it when he was devising his trademark signature. “The series, (which was) announced at 3.33AM in the UK, is executive produced by Hartswood bosses Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, the creative forces behind Benedict Cumberbatch’s BBC Sherlock series.”
When appearing at the Oxford Union, Steven Moffat ostentatiously made a triangle with his hands, a symbol often performed by Donald Trump.
Bob Moran and his brother Tom had their talents recognised at a young age by national newspapers. At 25, after starting at the Guardian, Bob became the youngest cartoonist to achieve a regular slot at the Daily Telegraph and won “numerous awards,“ including ones, “from organisations such as The Foreign Press Association and The Cartoon Arts Trust.” In 2014, The Guardian made Tom Moran at 26 its first self-published book prize winner which resulted in attention from the Washington Post. A year later Tom Moran picked up more baubles when he was named as one of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum winners for his sitcom, Printheads and received the AMC-Channel 4 Drama Co-Development Award for his sci-fi pilot White Rabbit. His upward trajectory continued with a number of published books, screen writing for TV shows, and after the interruption of lockdown he returned in 2022 with his first TV series Devil’s Hour.
Bob enjoyed similar success, recounting that,
“I had got myself to the point at the Telegraph where I was actually on a full staff contract which I had always been told when I joined -they said, ‘no cartoonist will ever be fully employed by a newspaper again,’ and they’re not generally, it’s true, and I’d managed to wangle it somehow so that from 2018 onwards I was on staff, so I had a salary, paid holiday, pension, all the things that somebody like me now would never expect.” When the scamdemic was inflicted, this rare deal put Bob Moran in a position where he had something to lose by speaking out -he could be sacked.
To illustrate the competitiveness of the profession, and his good fortune in securing a job at the Telegraph, Bob Moran told Mark Meets on GB News that, “in 2010 i was at the point of giving up on the dream of being a political cartoonist and I’d actually enrolled to do a teacher training course and that summer the Guardian cartoonists, when they were on holiday, got a few people who were interested to do some cover. So I did that, really enjoyed it and then the following March I heard that there was an opening at the Telegraph, so I just sent an email on the off chance and I got to go in and do a sort of trial and that was that. That was the beginning of my time there.” It’s not clear how Moran heard “there was an opening at The Telegraph,” but it was fortuitous.
Bob and Tom’s younger brother Patrick is a taxidermist of whom Bob says, “He's not trying to be famous I suppose in the same way we have.”
Although Bob mentioned on December 31st, 2024 that his brother is a screenwriter, his relationship to Tom Moran is studiously underplayed. Tom Moran’s family background is not publicly stated and the relationship between Bob and the Hollywood screenwriter is not widely known. This is strange when one considers that the unlikely success of the brothers in two competitive industries would in itself be a story, regardless of how Bob Moran’s views were portrayed after lockdown. One might expect the brothers’ notoriety to have at least prompted a question from a journalist as to one brother’s views on the other’s work or political position. The silence in the mainstream and alternative media in this respect is notable. The brothers’ own silence on the subject is curious. When Bob Moran has publicly discussed the significance of the number 33, he has never thought to mention his brother’s interest in it that is the basis of Devil’s Hour. Even if Bob was protecting Tom from condemnation by association with him, Tom’s success in 2022 might have been expected to provoke comment or questions.
In his show ‘Artpocalypse,’ Bob describes how, after overcoming initial worries about the scamdemic, he was in the highly unusual position that his family was unified in their opposition to the lockdown.
“I’m very lucky that all my family, my wife, my brothers, their wives, my parents, all saw things exactly as I did.” and that,“I kept talking to my brother every night.”
Speaking to Jake Fern he recalls of his brothers and his parents that, “ We were all basically in agreement from the beginning, I was very lucky in that sense.”
“I’d have conversations with my brothers early on most evenings about why it was all so mad and wrong.” It is curious then that having seen the stance his brother made, Tom was able to allow it to pass without comment, or being asked about it, when in 2022 they were both public figures.
Following Tom Moran’s The Devil’s Hour, its child star, Benjamin Chivers, achieved prodigious success at an even younger age than the Moran brothers and immediately went on to star in Guy Ritchie’s, The Fountain Of Youth alongside Natalie Portman.
Chivers was also recognised by prize-givers.
One of the TV series Tom Moran wrote episodes for prior to lockdown was called The Feed which, “takes place in London in the near future and follows “the British family of Lawrence Hatfield, the man who invented an omnipresent technology called The Feed. Implanted into nearly everyone’s brain, The Feed enables people to share information, emotions and memories, called mundles, instantly. But when things start to go wrong and users become murderous, the family is driven apart as they struggle to control the monster they have unleashed.”
This is redolent of planned neuralink ‘brain chip’ technology advanced by agenda front man Elon Musk, and of Yuval Noah Harari’s opinion that men are “hackable animals.” The Feed enters into the realms of predictive programming -a subject I wrote about that drew criticism from Bob Moran’s friend Abi Roberts.
Another writer for The Feed series is Channing Powell who makes the prophetic aspect of the TV show explicit in a Daily Mail report, and for whom a publicity shot shows her covering one eye. Separately she is shown at the Comic Con (CC), the logo of which is also one eye.
Bob Moran and Tania Edwards’ Pedants Revolt live show of December 16th, 2025, was notable in that it included a cast of people playing themselves on stage before an audience of the Truth Movement. These included Bob Moran, Tania Edwards, Bob’s father Tom Moran snr, and behavioural scientist Patrick Fagan, with musical accompaniment from Anna Rayner (aka Anna Naylor).
Bob Moran and his brother Tom are both performers. Bob performed as singer and a guitarist in a band that played at weddings and parties. Tom also performed in a band and like Bob’s RADA trained right hand woman Tania Edwards, he has worked as a stand up comedian, setting up the Laugh out Loud (LOL) Comedy club at university and performing at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In an episode of the Pedants Revolt entitled ‘Panem et Circenses aka The Pub Quiz,’ there is an appearance from Lucy Morris who appears to be a representative of Curtis Brown, an agency that lists Bob Moran’s brother, screenwriter, Tom Moran jr, as a client.
As well as featuring a cameo from Laura Dodsworth’s co-author Patrick Fagan, Pedants Revolt was attended by another Friend of Israel, Dr. Clare Craig (C C). Craig’s recent book was edited by Anna Rayner (aka Anna Naylor) and both women were very active in HART, the Health Advisory & Recovery Team chaired by Craig that opposed the scamdemic measures and works to influence government policy. Also involved in HART were Bob Moran and his sister-in-law, Tom’s wife Jemma. Although their relationship was mentioned when HARTs internal communications were leaked in October 2021, this is another of Bob Moran’s family connections that is largely unknown. The leak was a cause of concern for members of HART and it is clear from it that the Moran family connection would have been known to those in the group and to any journalist subsequently interviewing Moran.
“The HART chat logs also reveal that the organisation has impeccable media access through freelance PR manager Jemma Moran, sister-in-law of Telegraph cartoonist Bob Moran. As HART’s media coordinator she has tried to gain publicity for the group with the BBC, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Talk Radio, and many others – often with considerable success.”
In the Byline Times’ reporting of the leak Bob Moran is described as a signatory of UsforThem and a member of HART -with whom the report notes that Laura Dodsworth was closely connected. The report uses Moran’s online behaviour towards Rachel Clark to discredit opposition to the injections as extremist.
“On Tuesday 28 September when Telegraph cartoonist Bob Moran took to Twitter to call for NHS palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke to be verbally abused “for the rest of her worthless existence”
“Moran’s outburst is a prominent example of how an ongoing campaign against vaccines suggests an effort by pandemic disinformation groups to infiltrate mainstream institutions, with the potential to foster new forms of extremism. Yet both the organisations he is affiliated with – UsforThem and HART – appear to have attempted to lobby government, parliament and media, including the JCVI.”
Freelance journalist and digital Marketing Manager Jemma Moran now works as a Parliamentary private secretary to MP Esther McVey. McVey was working as a presenter for controlled TV outlet GB News when it platformed and promoted Bob Moran in 2022.
Baker, Walker, Swayne, and McVey all went on to recommend the vaccine. Although Chope took up advocacy for the vaccine injured he did not oppose the injections themselves.
Later on, in 2022, McVey interviewed Boris Johnson for GB News on the occasion when he denied being very ill in 2020 despite having then being portrayed as being on death’s door.
McVey’s career does not seem to have been harmed by her anti-lockdown stance as,
It seems strange that when a member of HART, Bob Moran would not publicly mention the work of his sister-in-law and her colleagues. Perhaps he didn’t want HART to be found guilty by association with him, but then why associate with them at all? While Moran’s views have now evolved to the point where he questions the accepted wisdom around viruses, both his pro-Israel friend Clare Craig and HART seem firmly entrenched in the orthodox medical paradigm. In stark contrast Bob speaks of,
“the years of relentless bullshit they spouted about a deadly virus and safe and effective jabs”
and
Of Jay Battacharya, who professes belief in a similar medical paradigm to Clare Craig, Bob Moran wrote,
“He’s not an idiot. And at this point, only a properly thick person could assert that there had actually been a pandemic of a deadly virus. A smart person, by this stage, ought to have figured out that even if viruses exist, a respiratory virus pandemic is a scientific impossibility. But as I said, he’s not that dumb. So he, like all the others, is now just saying what he’s been told to say, knowing that it’s complete horseshit.”
A similar jarring discordance is found between the views of Craig and her editor Anna Rayner (aka Anna Naylor).
Similarly, HART’s many ardently pro-Israel members place Jemma Moran in an awkward position given her close affiliation with the group and her family ties to Bob. It’s not clear what Jemma’s views are in relation to the Israeli-Palestine conflict but when speaking of his family in December 2024, Bob made no mention of any disagreement over Israel or any other post-lockdown issue. On the other hand, Jemma’s involvement with Esther McVey clearly conflicts with Bob’s abandonment of the Parliamentary system and his scathing public exhortations encouraging his followers not to vote.
A selection of his numerous tweets on the subject reads,
“If you step into that booth and make a mark on the paper, whether you vote for a main party, an independent OR spoil the ballot, you are recognising and giving your energy to a system that is designed to enslave and destroy you. This system has just terrorised you for four years. It has taken away your freedoms. It has killed your loved ones. It has lied openly and relentlessly, in order to commit the worst crime in human history. Now, it seeks to humiliate you further by inviting you to pretend you’re not living under a tyrannical regime. The only way we can possibly begin to make things better is if enough people abandon the childish fantasy that we live in a democracy. Don’t. Vote.”
Was his influence being exerted to cause dissidents to neglect the only political power they can wield?
It is also difficult to understand how members of the organisation Friends of Israel could attend one of Moran’s stage shows following his polarising ‘Kosher,’ cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu eating a dead baby. Made in condemnation of the Israeli vaccination policy and military excesses in Gaza, it was perceived by opponents as reinforcing anti-semitic tropes and provoked calls for police investigation from Laura Dodsworth – the co-author of Bob’s fellow cast member, Patrick Fagan.
Was antagonism over this cartoon deliberately fomented to polarise existing divisions between dissidents and consumers of mainstream media, between left and right, and between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli factions? Was it orchestrated to help create the conditions necessary for the curtailment of online discourse? Was it a means of portraying opponents of the lockdown and vaccine as ‘anti-semitic?’
Superficially the cartoon contributes to the media amplified Israel-Palestine conflict but it fails to address the important question of how much of the recent news reporting is false or faked. Bob Moran was late in voicing his opposition to the lockdown and vaccine narratives. The propaganda had taken hold and vaccines were already administered by the time he was sacked in October 2021. Moran was later still in questioning the foundational stories of those interventions -the apparent falsehoods in the covid and virus paradigms. Similarly, by addressing the Israel and Palestine conflict in the way that he did, he inflamed tensions rather than questioning the foundation for their recent upsurge by asking how much of what we have been told about the events of October 7th, and what has followed, is actually true.
However sophisticated Moran’s explanation of his ‘Kosher,’ cartoon might be, it encouraged the portrayal of critics of the Israeli government as ‘anti-Semitic, anti vaxxers,’ engaged in an age old ‘blood libel.’
In identifying subversion in the Freedom Movement we are unlikely to be provided with direct evidence. Any sophisticated deceit would necessitate the avoidance of such obvious revelation. Criticism for the examination of circumstantial evidence can thus be disregarded. We can justifiably ask how likely it is that Bob Moran should sell tickets for £33, artwork for £33,000, have a signature that resembles 33, that the number 33 should be associated with the forces he purports to oppose, and that then his screenwriter brother should base his debut television series on the same number. We can ask about the unlikely scenario of the Moran brothers being employed, successful, and award-winning in their two separate, highly competitive fields in their early twenties, within five years of leaving university. We can note others on their projects on a similar fast track to success, the symbols their colleagues employ, and we can observe the under-reporting of the connection between the two brothers and wonder why that is the case.
We can question the likelihood of Bob Moran’s friends being those whose views so diametrically oppose his own that he publicly vilifies their positions. Why would those who might regard his Kosher cartoon as anti-semitic be seen publicly endorsing his stage show -and even performing in it? Why is he associated with and supported by medics whose views he decries as idiotic? Why does he so publicly savage the notion of voting when his sister-in law works as a Parliamentary secretary for an MP? Again why is the link between him and his sister-in-law so understated? The more inconsistencies and unlikely coincidences that accumulate the more the circumstantial evidence provides an answer of substance.
This essay follows on from this series of articles.
Part One: The Curious Case of Ed the Techie is here.
Part Two: A Strange Response is here.
Part Three: The Funeral of Ed the Techie is here.
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Wow. Some seriously dodgy shenanigans there.
The 33 stuff really is highly suspect - there’s so much of it!