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7 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I really enjoyed the new Briefing Room with @DAaronovitch about Covid responses around the world. Have been thinking about this final bit continuously since I heard it 1/3 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
Has a too individualistic approach to rights has stood in the way of effective response to Covid? I don’t agree that this is an effective attack on liberal democracy but it is a critique which liberals need to take seriously 2/3
I have a new article on vaccine passports coming later where I question if some of us have been taking too narrow an approach to human rights - and not paying enough attention to social and economic rights, and perhaps we are too stuck in old paradigms. Anyway, one to discuss 3/3
I recorded a podcast early in the pandemic with @caoilfhionnanna @Judith_Mesquita @commentator01 when we discussed how the response to the pandemic should be framed in human rights terms - a lot about social rights, not just about eg right to privacy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bet…

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5 Apr
This is plausible under the current restrictions, which mandate a negative test, further test, & 10 days’ self-isolation for visitors from non-Red List countries BUT don’t require the visitor to be coming for any particular reason (as is the case for citizens leaving the UK) 1/3
Coming to the UK as a tourist has become a lot easier since 29 March when the ‘leave/be outside home without a reasonable excuse’ restriction was removed as there is no longer any (even potential) legal ban on tourism to the UK. 2/3
The net effect is that it is illegal for a UK resident to leave the UK for a holiday but legal for a non-UK resident from a non red list country to enter and be in the UK for a holiday as long as they self-isolate and test 3/3
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4 Apr
Troubling video. Religious gatherings are lawful with no numbers limits save for what a risk assessment combined with government guidance safely permits. If police had done that analysis and concluded there were too many people, then OK, but did they? 1/3
There is a right to manifest religion contained in primary legislation and should only be interfered with if the interference is proportionate. Did the police understand this? Did they consider alternatives such as asking excess numbers to leave? Ask people to put on masks 2/3
Or did they get a report of lots of people, some not wearing masks, and make a snap decision? On Good Friday of all days. My worry when I see this is not just what is in the video but all the times this kind of thing must have happened without us knowing during the pandemic 3/3
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2 Apr
This is very worrying theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
A lot of police officers fairly saying at the time of @ReclaimTS vigil report that HMICFRS has previously been critical of police. But this whistleblower suggests they have a particular political agenda when it comes to peaceful protest.

Also, Matt Parr led both investigations
Perhaps the @CommonsHomeAffs could look at this as part of their inquiry committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…
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2 Apr
The article is also wrong. There is no need for organisers to “submit” a risk assessment. They just have to do a risk assessment.

Again, the police are operating as gatekeepers of rather than facilitators to lawful protest.
This also highlights how unclear the law remains. There is an exception for gathering if they protest organiser has submitted a risk assessment etc. But how is a *participant* to know whether the risk assessment has been submitted or is sufficient?
No doubt police will treat a protest which has become what they consider to be a public health risk as illegal. But if the organiser has gone through the necessary precautions, there is no illegality. Again, too much is in the hands of the police who are not public health experts
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2 Apr
If you are interested in the ethical and legal issues around ‘vaccine passports’ see this thread 👇 ...
... and this podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bet…
You may notice my view is basically: I can see the serious risks to liberties, I can see some possible benefits, as a policy it’s more justifiable in care homes than pubs. If it makes lockdowns less likely then I don’t think it can be fully discounted by libertarian arguments.
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31 Mar
Someone emailed me to say there appears to be an error in the government's Covid guidance - repeated four times.

"You must not socialise indoors with anyone you do not live with or have formed a support bubble with."

I agree there should be a "not" before "formed" Image
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