of scientific laboratories right round the world which also deal with dangerous pathogens and diseases. there are literally thousands of them — so many that the international agencies simply can't keep a proper eye on them. hamish de bretton—gordon is one of the top international experts on chemical and biological warfare. i met him in northern iraq several years ago. he stresses that most of the world's unregulated biological laboratories are probably above board. but unfortunately there are people who want to do us harm out there, and at the moment i think these laboratories are a bit of an open goal. and covid, the pandemic, has really been a sort of neon advert to every terrorist, despot, rogue state and bad actor, that this is something that they can use to recreate