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Added 2021-12-21 22:19:53 +0000 UTCFor the last time in 2021, we take your questions, comments and criticisms.
As always, lots of debate about Covid - and we start by remarking upon a possible u-turn on the issue on the British left.
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This was a thoughtful and generous response and I enjoyed listening to it. Thanks! I think your points about expertise versus technocracy were well made. One last comment on the ambiguity of the term “lockdown” as both a catch-all shorthand for government responses to covid, and as the key point of focus for criticism. From all corners there seems to have been a coupling of restrictive policies with (for want of a better word) supportive ones: furlough pay, free testing, childcare, other forms of income and housing support, healthcare funding and so on. Invariably, these policies have been rolled out and rolled back simultaneously and the “living with covid” rhetoric has been explicitly positioned as a move from collective response to an individual one. This approach will always favour people with money, power and good health over those without, and has been convenient for governments with no real interest in the health and living standards of their populations. So, while it looks like lockdowns are probably behind us for good in Australia and the UK, there is still plenty of space for critique of cynical and undemocratic responses to a pandemic that is very much still in progress.
AM
2022-03-06 00:54:19 +0000 UTCThe question I wanted to ask was what counts as political organisation.
Jennifer Baldwin
2021-12-29 14:14:18 +0000 UTC
