How Did We Lose Our Freedoms in the Pandemic?

Adam Wagner's new book is called How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters. The human rights barrister helped us come to a much better understanding of some of the emergency turns, if you like, that were undertaken by the government. He says it was not necessarily a case of what was done being undesirable or wrong. But more about how did we get to the position where in a liberal democracy, you could have a few ministers signing pieces of paper? Adam: "When the pandemic came along, they saw scrutiny and accountability as irritations"