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