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.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


