I know people who have worked with him and don't have much good to say about him. I have never met him. I respect that he has been exposing some of the important topics that need to be covered.. However, like Russell Brand - I suspect that he is either a carefully engineered plant or just not deeply aware enough of what he is talking about and basically is just repeating ideas he has taken from others a lot of the time (ironically, this is something that he complains about other people doing - yet it is extremely rare in my experience for him to acknowledge his sources).

I was told that that photo was taken at the Groucho club, which is pretty much the center of establishmentism and even child abuse, as far as I am aware.

You might find the quotes from Icke's early career in which he states that he is receiving his information via chanelling from 'ascended masters' to be revealing:

https://www.ureka.org/videos/watch/100080/david-icke-exposed-full-movie