Jon Ronson

[4] Ronson's first book, Clubbed Class (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his way into a jet set lifestyle, in search of the world's finest holiday.

Subjects featured in the book include David Icke, Randy Weaver, Omar Bakri Muhammad, Ian Paisley, Alex Jones, and Thomas Robb.

[6] The narrative tells of Ronson's attempts to infiltrate the "shadowy cabal" fabled, by these conspiracy theorists, to rule the world.

[7] Publishers Weekly noted: "It is how he reveals the all-too-real machinations of Western society's radical fringe and its various minions that makes this enjoyable work rather remarkable.

Much was based on the ideas of Lt. Col. Jim Channon, ret., who wrote the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual in 1979, inspired by the emerging Human Potential Movement of California.

The book suggests that these New Age military ideas mutated over the decades to influence interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

In it, he explores the nature of psychopathic behaviour, learning how to apply the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and investigating its reliability.

[23] In the early 1990s, Ronson was offered the position of sidekick on Terry Christian's Show on Manchester radio station KFM.

[24] Ronson also co-presented a KFM show with Craig Cash, who went on to write and perform in The Royle Family and Early Doors.

[29] In the late 1980s, Ronson replaced Mark Radcliffe as the keyboard player for the Frank Sidebottom band for a number of performances.

[31] Ronson presented the late nineties talk show For the Love of...,[32] in which each week he would interview a gathering of guests and experts on different phenomena and conspiracy theories.

[42] In an interview for Louis Theroux's Grounded podcast, Ronson states that he became a naturalised American citizen in early 2020.

Ronson in January 2007