Revisiting the Satanic Panic, 20 years later  One of my favorite
books is about this very topic.  Spiked looks back, and notes
that the Right and the Left were to blame:  his reflects, in
part, the extent to which in the UK, the Satanic panic was
framed less by anxious Christians than it was by elements of a
decadent and decomposing left.  This is why the publications in
which British proponents of the Satanic panic made their mark
were not journals of the cloth; they were the rags of the left.
It was publications like the New Statesman and Marxism Today
which carried tales of ‘a culture of sexual terrorism, power and
sacrifice’, …  For certain elements of the British left, with
feminist theorising prominent and a sense of defeat writ large
in the Miners’ Strike, the fall of the USSR and the electoral
success of Margaret Thatcher, the Satanic panic touched a nerve.
It revealed to sections of a disillusioned left the reason for
their failure to realise socialism: a working class corrupted by
patriarchy, and f