Four years ago, just after 9/11, an American judge wrote a warning that is worth repeating. Andrew Napolitano said: “In a democracy, personal liberties are rarely diminished overnight. Rather, they are lost gradually, by acts of well-meaning people, with good intentions, amid public approval. But the subtle loss of freedom is never recognised until the crisis is over and we look back in horror. And then it is too late.”
Read Jenni Russell’s experience and analysis of how we are already sliding well down that dangerous route.