PETER HITCHENS: We DID have a sensible Covid plan... but copied a police state instead

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Supporters of strangling the country always demand ���What would you have done?��� if I dare to criticise the Government���s wild, unprecedented policy for dealing with Covid.

They assume, as backers of crazy policies always do, that there is no alternative to mass house arrest, enormous police powers, Maoist travel bans and the crippling of large parts of the economy.

Well, there is an alternative. Sitting in the Government archives is a 70-pag...