The Slog sets out to investigate why one naff poem went around the World, and discovers more than he bargained for….in the shape of mysterious authorship, suspicious branding, rewriting of history, and familiar suspects involved in its success. It’s not one for the faint-hearted.

I’m going to embed here a YouTube video which has been up since May this year – when Covid19 was still being billed as The Grim Reaper by Fauci, Ferguson, Horby, Biden Associates. Bear that in mind as you watch it: it’s only 3.5 minutes long. I beg of you, watch it and listen to every word.

Seven months up on YouTube and still not taken down: must be something of a record. But this piece of 100%-proof pernicious Soviet-style propaganda is still up because that’s exactly where Google wants it to be.

Its basic tenet is that life was awful before Covid came along, but…