Thomas Fazi in UnHerd chronicles the puzzlingly opaque journey of the lab-leak theory from forbidden topic to plausible discussion point and back again. Fazi points fingers at both the Chinese and American governments for stalling (for different reasons) on a much-needed independent inquiry into the origin of Covid-19.

Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.

