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.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


