We would not have been treated to the dystopian spectacle of drones taunting people for walking their dogs had Britain not already established itself as one of the most invasive surveillance states in the democratic West. The monitoring of lockdown critics – including eminent scientists – by Whitehall disinformation units merely built on a well-ensconced tradition of managerial groupthink and slavish devotion to scientism (rather than science). In fact, it was merely the tip of the iceberg, the culmination of at least two decades of freedom’s unrelenting decline. Some might be tempted to dismiss our draconian response to Covid as a mortifying aberration to never be repeated. Put bluntly, we are sleepwalking into becoming a “soft authoritarian” outlier in the West. In a spectacular reversal of history, peacetime freedom is now consistently shrinking rather than expanding. Britain’s ranking across all manner of global freedom indexes, from academic liberty to online and media freedom, are in freefall.
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Our country likes to pride itself on being a champion of liberty – the country that bequeathed private property norms, natural rights philosophy and representative government to the United States, leader of the free world.īut after a golden age for liberty that stretches back to the Enlightenment, we are going backwards. When it comes to freedom, Britain has reached a tipping point.
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