Everyone has a different idea of freedom. Some want to be free to do what they want, any old time. For others, it’s about being free from the overbearing state. I think that’s the point. Freedom is different for everyone – to define someone else’s freedom is to trap them in your idea of who they should be.
Another way of looking at it is that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone. When the first cases of Covid-19 appeared in China three years ago, nobody could have dreamed that a few months later our government would make illegal what we had assumed were untouchable freedoms – to socialise, to work and worship outside the home; even to hug.
