David’s instinct is right, though it’s also important to accept that various temporary changes to powers and duties in all sorts of areas have to be made urgently. Worth reading the detailed account of what the Bill will do. gov.uk/government/pub…
It is though always worth running the “what bits of its standing wish list has the Home Office managed to smuggle into this one?” check.
And this rather leapt out. 
Others know more about this area than I do. But I’m suspicious: there’s no good explanation of its link to Covid-19, and it has a “get rid of awkward judicial supervision” feel about it.
More generally, this is a typically insightful take on what will become the central dilemma here, affecting all our rights and liberties.
