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Monkeypox, Covid and the trouble with our species

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

I hate to be one of those columnists who says ‘I told you so’. But I told you so. Looking back this week through the vast underground vaults at Spectator HQ I see that centuries ago in April 2020 I explained the problem with us humans as a species. As I said back then, someone always shags a monkey.

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