We all love conspiracy theories. Having grown up on fables, fiction and Dr Faustus - the genius who sold his soul to the devil to acquire more knowledge - we gladly embrace conspiracy theories in a tight hug. This is if we have not already invented one, or many.

Year 2020 - the Year of the Coronavirus, will be a fertile one for conspiracy theories - a spy thriller of wheredunit and whydunit, rather than the classic whodunit - which seems already sorted as far as the novel coronavirus goes.