BARRISTERS TEND TO make awful writers, a fact which has not stopped them from filling the shelves of WH Smith with the sort of paperbacks people buy for indifferent aunts. The latest example of the genre is Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters by Adam Wagner who, as the blurb cheerfully tells us, is “one of the UK’s leading human rights barristers”.
During Covid, Mr Wagner kept a useful tally of lockdown legislation on Twitter, which made
