Jonathan Compton

Jonathan Sumption is dangerously wrong about lockdown

Lord Sumption is one of Britain’s finest legal minds. As a former supreme court judge, he deserves our respect. But he is wrong when he says the lockdown is ‘incoherent’. Sumption argues that the decision to run the risk of catching coronavirus should be down to each person. ‘What I’m advocating now is that the lockdown should become entirely