Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters

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This chapter discusses vaccination against covid and the use of vaccine passports, [1] : 139–142 issues surrounding the policing of the vigil for Sarah Everard, [1] : 142–147 who had been murdered by a police officer, and the emergence of partygate, the revelation that a number of illegal gatherings had taken place in the houses of parliament during lockdown. Government was not at its worst as that would have led to the end of democracy but it was seen to be shambolic.

Proportionality is a key concept in human rights law, and Wagner’s approach and my criticism of it may be explained by different instinctive approaches to proportionality. Wagner discusses the history of the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, as a means to stop the slide into authoritarianism. The book discusses how during existential threats states reorganize themselves in what Wagner dubs Emergency States to tackle the crisis and equates them to historic precedents. The book has an aura of intrigue from the front cover, and this theme is continued throughout the text. Had the second, third and subsequent waves of legislation been considered more carefully, the police might have received better guidance and training on their new powers.while also complaining about constantly changing rules with ever increasing exceptions, and a “summer of micromanagement” in 2020. He’s absolutely right to criticise the Johnson government’s tendency to authoritarianism and arbitrariness, and its contempt for Parliament and law.

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