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The Brendan O'Neill Show

46: Lord Sumption: ‘Lockdown is an assault on our humanity’

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Former Supreme Court justice Jonathan Sumption tells Brendan O’Neill why he refuses to obey the ‘immoral’ coronavirus restrictions.

Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/12/the-government-is-instilling-fear-in-the-public/


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After the government had initially justified the mock lack as a method for flattening the curve,

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it shifted the goalposts. It seemed to me that it was immoral.

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