They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper by Bruce Robinson review – a huge establishment cover-up

A new, deeply researched Ripper theory from the writer of Withnail and I centres on Freemasonry and identifies a masonic grand organist as the serial killer

Rarely has a book on Jack the Ripper been written with such visceral anger as this one by Bruce Robinson, the director and screenwriter of Withnail and I: anger at Jack, at “Ripperology”, at the establishment, and anger at the police cover-up that allowed one of the world’s most infamous serial killers to remain free.

From the outset, Freemasons and their secretive organisation are central to Robinson’s narrative: “Masonry permeates every fibre of this conundrum.” In the 19th century, virtually everyone who was anyone was a Mason, including the Metropolitan police commisioner, Sir Charles Warren. Robinson blames “Her Majesty’s executive” for the concealment of Jack the Ripper, all the members of which happened to be Masons: “It was a conspiracy of the system.”

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