We Will Never Get Out of This Now

This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column

We will never get out of this now. It will go on for ever. We will not be free people again. 

Even when we seem to be free we will be like prisoners on parole, who can be snatched back to their cells at a moment���s notice.

I think I now understand why this period has come to be known by the repulsive word ���lockdown���, an American term which describes the punishment of rioting convicts in a penitentiary, by confining them in their cells for...