I haven't accessed the full article yet but Lord Sumption has reviewed #EmergencyState and he thinks it is "interesting and important". I thought he might totally hate it so not a bad start!
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He also thinks it has some "oddities"...
I have now read the review. It's an interesting and fair one, from the perspective that Lord Sumption took throughout the pandemic, which was that lockdowns were unjustified. He doesn't like that I decline, in the book, to say that the major restrictions were unjustified.
This is exactly the point I assumed he would disagree with (and indeed in the book I shadow box him a few times, using his articles during the pandemic, some parts of which I agree with and some of which I don't).
Ultimately, he says
"The deafening silence of the human-rights lobby in the face of the biggest restrictions on freedom in modern times does them no credit".
I don't agree with this - as you might expect, but it is an argument I directly address in the book...
"The deafening silence of the human-rights lobby in the face of the biggest restrictions on freedom in modern times does them no credit".
I don't agree with this - as you might expect, but it is an argument I directly address in the book...
... which I'm not going to summarise here as that's the point of the book! E.g. the section "pleading for balance". Maybe he's right. Maybe I'm right. Maybe there is some third way. It is still early days in analysing what happened.
Anyway, read the book! I'm actually really pleased that Lord Sumption seems to have enjoyed it, even if he doesn't feel i went far enough amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184…
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