21: The cruelty of social distancing, with Lionel Shriver

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Brendan O’Neill about the catastrophe of lockdown, the horrors of the ‘new normal’, and our society’s immature response to death.

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