PETER HITCHENS: Is shutting down Britain ��� with unprecedented curbs on ancient liberties ��� REALLY the best answer?

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column

Our columnist is renowned for independent thinking. It will enrage many, but here he offers a highly controversial personal view

Some years ago I had the very good luck to fall into the hands of a totally useless doctor. It was hell, and nearly worse than that, but it taught me one of the most important lessons of my life. He was charming, grey-haired, smooth and beautifully dressed. He was standing in for my usual GP, a shabbier, more...