By the Editor – Adopting a Sherlock Holmes type approach to analysing his hypothesis – “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” – the author looks at the origins of the Covid 19 pandemic. He presents an uncomfortable case, which the author admits could be interpreted as a conspiracy theory, for what amounts to a PRC quest for ‘lebensraum’. So, without an accepted origin for the pandemic outbreak, and alongside the Biden administration sponsored review into its source, it is inevitable that theories will proliferate. Most people are in t…