Silkie Carlo
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Hugging was never *not* allowed, but the fact absolutely no one in the media checked or questioned this, & that the commentariat seems A-OK with Michael Gove instructing the public
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Cummings almost certainly broke lockdown regulations. He also demonstrated that the Coronavirus Act quarantine powers are unacceptably extremist, unnecessary & yet dangerously hovering at the fingertips of authorities to use
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The authoritarian dream of “control” of the virus, that these punishing measures will “win the war” + “save lives”, is underwritten by a fatal fallacy: that life is something separated
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Reflecting on Lord Sumption’s extraordinary interview last month:“When human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom
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