It’s an odd one this. It was posted by Tom Rees eight days ago, but the social media collaborators have been pumping away at it ever since. Mr Rees is a thirty-something Economics reporter, not a world population expert. Judging from his track record with the telegraph, it seems fair to suggest that Tom is anti-Trump – and pretty much Establishment on-message when it comes to Covid19.

In the piece to hand here, he introduces some toxic concepts…. and the general impression one forms is that he wants to legitimise depopulation – not as a policy, but as something that already exists, and is thus entirely normal. Just like footballers keeling over, and the miscarriage rate going through the roof (of which, there’s more below).

Here’s a starter from Rees: ‘Once a problem far in the future, the population crisis is arriving earlier than expected after the Covid baby…