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The big debate: is lockdown wrong?

26 May 2020

6:52 PM

26 May 2020

6:52 PM

Is lockdown a gargantuan mistake? That’s the view of a growing number of thinkers and critics, including The Spectators very own Toby Young, who sees the political class’s shutting down of entire populations as the most catastrophic policy error in history. Not every free thinker agrees, however. We asked Matt Labash, a contributing editor and a skeptic of lockdown skepticism, to challenge Toby over email.

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