Why do we not care more about this potential explanation for the origin of the virus, and that it may well have been covered up?

As time goes by, the evidence increasingly vindicates that one-time ‘conspiracy theory’, as is so often the case today.

Britain's journalistic community and mainstream media – with the exception of Mr Birrell's articles in UnHerd and The Mail on Sunday – have fallen subserviently in line with a 'consensus' it now appears was manufactured and ruthlessly enforced by agents who were far from impartial.