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co. UK. UK. Hello and welcome to Trigonometry I'm Francis Foster I'm

Constantine Kissin and this is...

I'm Peter's ruined our introduction.

But this is the show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people and our brilliant returning guest is Peter Hitchins the author and journalist

Peter welcome back to the show what so far it's okay yeah I have to say we've

never had a guest interrupt us mid-intro but you've managed so let's get straight into it.

One of the reasons that we were really keen to have you back on the show is that you have

done a lot of alternative coverage shall we say of the lockdown and the coronavirus

situation so for anyone who has not been following your writing and opinions on

this issue just give us a brief overview of what is your opinion of what's happened

and the lockdown measures that have been implemented.

Okay, right from the start I said that the response to the government was completely

out of proportion to the size of the menace.

I didn't say there was no disease and say nobody would die and say it wasn't horrible

for a lot of people that they got it. But I said that as an event it simply didn't

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