Afternoon Update: Fauci takes aim at News Corp journalist; Bikram Lama’s body returns home; and what to do about cultural collapse

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Afternoon Update here, and start your day with our Morning Mail newsletter Good afternoon. Dr Anthony Fauci, the pandemic-era US chief medical adviser, has described a book by News Corp investigative journalist Sharri Markson backing the “lab leak” theory of Covid-19’s origins as a “bunch of nonsense” in his newly released diaries. ‘Warring kingdoms’: cofounder of religious Reformers compares NSW Liberal party factionalism to…