It was a cartoon from a few weeks back. Looking down on the Covid enquiry we saw the learned inquisitor with his right elbow leaning on the podium, interrogating the hapless minister and in a clipped schoolmaster voice pronouncing “We are not going there Mr Gove!” The tables and some desks in the room were being knocked over and pushed aside by what turned out to be the tree trunk legs of be a gigantic elephant towering above them and bearing the banner “The source of the virus”. The great beast was seen by everyone but all connived in a conspiracy of denial, pretending it wasn’t there. Not the most clever or inventive of cartoons, granted, but hitting the nail squarely on the head, all the same. That a major public enquiry, costing millions and taking years to report, would chose to deliberately block any discussion on the likely source of the virus, – only demonstrates what an utter farce the whole pantomime is. Can you imagine the Grenfell enquiry excluding any discussion on where the fire started? No neither could I.

But the truth is there was, and is, a herd of elephants in that room. Here are just some:

The devastation of lock-down

The deification of science

The surrender to totalitarianism

The zero covid delusion

The idiocy of masks

The weaponization of fear

The illusion of omniscience

The sacrifice of children

The vaccine redemption dogma

But there will be nothing to see here. Instead the enquiry, which anyone could write, will find that we should have locked down quicker and faster.