It is now evident that the Chinese conspired to hide critical information about the origins of Covid-19, a cover-up with serious consequences for science, the media, geopolitics – and billions of ordinary people. In Unherd, Ian Birrell contends that a self-righteous media united in loathing of Trump stifled debate over the virus’s origins.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


