My letter in The Spectator this week.

Peter Hitchens Wasn’t the choice, as people understood it at the time, to lockdown and take the economic and social hit in favour of protecting the most vulnerable in society and returning to normal sooner? I’m unsure why there is a such a backlash on lockdown when the UK acted in the same way…

𝕀𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕙𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 Peter Hitchens Wasn't the choice, as people understood it at the time.

'2 weeks to flatten the curve'.??

You can pick and choose what 'at the time' means because it went on for 2 years - not 2 weeks.

An exercise in authoritarianism.

FREEDOM WATCH Earl Grey Beard Peter Hitchens An unprecedented pandemic unravelled. If you think governments around the world wanted to plunge their countries into generationally crippling debt to exert control on people, I think you’re fundamentally mistaken. Lockdown was a policy that’s subsequently been proven to be…