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Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters

by Adam Wagner

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · October 2, 2022

Political leadership and oversight

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A human rights barrister's critique of how pandemic-era laws radically remade society under near-unlimited government power, decrying the lack of parliamentary debate and oversight as restrictions tightened, and warning against future emergencies following the same political path.

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