Toby’s Newsnight Appearance: A Review
Toby appeared on Newsnight on Tuesday night to talk about whether lockdown sceptics should be outright banned or reluctantly tolerated. You can watch the segment here. A reader has written a review. Emily Maitlis: “The lockdown worked in March, it brought the R rate down from 3 to .6.” Toby Young: “It was falling before it was imposed.” EM: “We will discuss this again I am sure.” It was an exit cue of course and whilst it may not have quite amounted to an invitation, we must make sure we do discuss it again with Emily, because whether or not lockdowns work is what it is all about. The exchange came at the end of a nine-minute segment that perfectly illustrated Dr David McGrogan’s piece on “the failed strategy of lockdown sceptics”, with emotive accusations of Covid denial blocking out any light that might have been used to illuminate key areas of contention. The Newsnight segment was on whether YouTube had been right to remove from its platform the recordings of talkRADIO on the basis that its policy is “to take down content that explicitly contradicts expert consensus”. A decision that has since been reversed. Emily set out her stall. “In a time of public emergency, and in the face of so much irrefutable scientific data, is it responsible to ...