WE ALL know the story of the emperor’s new clothes and the fact that it was a small child, rather than the courtiers and sycophants, who blurted out the truth that the emperor, in fact, was wearing nothing at all.
That story by Hans Christian Andersen was published in 1837 and now, nearly 200 years later, its message is more relevant than ever. For while politicians, scientists and supposedly learned people everywhere were ordering us into lockdowns, pushing us to take ever more vaccines and tests, to sanitise our hands at every turn and to wear masks, it was the ordinary people who saw through all this and rebelled.
