There’s been very little debate about whether lockdowns are justified ethically. In a new paper, two philosophers argue that each of the main justifications for lockdown has implications most people would not accept.
We're publishing a guest post today by David McGrogan, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Business at Northumbria University, about the recent twitter rant of Stephen Reicher, a lockdown zealot who sits on SAGE.
At the beginning of the first lockdown, some commentators welcomed the opportunity to spend more "quality time" with their families. But as Dr Sinéad Murphy points out, many families couldn't cope with the extra burden.
In an original essay for Lockdown Sceptics, Dr James Moreton Wakeley, a former parliamentary researcher, says the Government's response to lockdown is an indictment of Britain's political class.
