We speak with human rights barrister, Adam Wagner, about his new book Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters.
Adam is the UK’s leading authority on the law relating to COVID-19. From 2020-2021 he was Specialist Advisor to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the government’s response to the pandemic and assisted in the writing of five reports.
Adam founded and chairs the multi-award winning human rights education charity EachOther, set up the widely-read UK Human Rights Blog and hosts the UK’s leading human rights podcast, the Better Human Podcast. As well as being a trusted commentator on TV and radio explaining COVID-19 law to the public.
Follow Adam on Twitter @AdamWagner1
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