In the 16 years since that programme was aired, the evidence has become even stronger, but it will still be a long time before governments and the so-called guardians of our public health admit it. As Dr John Bonnell, chief medical officer for the UK’s now-defunct Central Electricity Generating Board, said in 1985, on a Central TV programme entitled The Good, the Bad and the Indefensible: “If we accepted the dangers, it would mean an enormous turnabout for industry and for the country as a whole. There are no contingency plans to cope with such a turnabout.”

Not only are there no contingency plans in place, but we have also seen the explosion of the mobile-phone industry in the intervening years, making any admission concerning the harmful effects of EMFs physically as well as fiscally catastrophic.

Bryan Hubbard