Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdown people are all being empowered by spurious clarion call to 'freedom'

Johnson is leading his people into a dangerous and unncecessary situation, with no scientific basis, writes Fergus Finlay

Police and anti-vaccination protesters during a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, after the final legal restrictions were lifted in England.Picture: Victoria Jones

Sometimes you’d get close to despair. The government of the island next door to us has decided to embark on a highly dangerous and completely unethical experiment. They’re calling it Freedom Day, but it will put tens of thousands of men, women, and children at risk.

Now in the UK there’s no limit on the number of people who can meet indoors, no legal requirement to wear a mask or socially distance, no problem standing at the bar in your local for hours on end and then staggering off to a nightclub — almost no sensible public health restrictions at all.