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6 January 2021 • 12:02am Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Downing Street, London Credit: Hannah McKay/PA SIR – How was it possible, in this crisis, for our much-lauded human rights and civil liberties to be suspended so easily, without even the right to protest publicly against this? Why were ministers and scientists allowed to present statistics out of context in a way that was misleading, without immediate questions from the media? What role did Ofcom play in the communication or suppression of anti-lockdown views? What happened to the te...