Review: Emergency State. How we Lost our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters, by Adam Wagner

Adam Wagner is a human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers—Keir Starmer's old outfit—who, documenting the legal ramifications of coronavirus restrictions on Twitter, and acting in key cases on the human rights impacts of the pandemic, became one of the UK's go-to experts on the laws of the pandemic and their civil liberties implications. He has now written an important, if flawed, book on the subject, Emergency State.