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🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.2 | Who would have believed it? |
0:06.8 | That the people of a proudly free nation would lock themselves up, keep themselves, ourselves |
0:13.2 | incarcerated, stay in captivity to use Boris Johnson's terminology with so little resistance. |
0:21.1 | What we learned this week though was that there was, there is no shortage of resentment at |
0:26.1 | the lockdown and the realisation that not everyone, not even the Prime Minister's chief |
0:31.4 | adviser, was following the same rules as the rest of us. |
0:35.8 | The rage many felt stemmed, I suspect, from being told by the very people who made the |
0:40.8 | rules so many abade so carefully that what really mattered was, in fact, judgement and instinct. |
0:48.2 | My guest on this week's political thinking argues that that is how it should always have |
0:52.6 | been. Jonathan Sumpshon, Lord Sumpshon, a justice of the Supreme Court until 2018 has argued |
0:59.2 | that the lockdown should never have been enforced by law and that it is up to us, not the state, |
1:06.0 | to decide what risks we should take. |
1:09.0 | Jonathan Sumpshon, Lord Sumpshon, welcome to political thinking. |
1:11.8 | Glad to be here. |
1:13.2 | Are you enjoying your new role no longer the lofty, the detached justice of the Supreme Court? |
1:20.3 | Not quite a man in the political trenches, but certainly a man making political arguments |
1:24.7 | now. |
1:25.7 | Well, I neither enjoy it nor object to it. |
1:29.1 | I think that it would be very much more satisfactory if the sort of points that I have been making |
1:35.1 | had been made by professional politicians. |
1:38.5 | But the amount of group think and collective hysteria, partly I have to say officially |
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