Sir, – I read your editorial "The Irish Times view on Britain's Covid-19 'tidal wave': nobody at the tiller" (December 13th) with interest.
I find it somewhat astonishing that you choose to group civil libertarians and Covid-deniers together. In no way am I a Covid-denier. I have had my vaccines, try to maintain social distance and wear a mask when it is appropriate to do so, and I urge others to do the same.
I am, however, a civil libertarian. I fundamentally believe that people should have the right to make their own choices and not be penalised if theirs is not the state-approved one.
I have always believed that civil liberties are to be defended vigorously. Perhaps it is only in The Irish Times that civil libertarianism is a bad thing? Who would have thought it? – Yours, etc,
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ANDREW BRIDGEN, MP
(Conservative,
North West
Leicestershire),
House of Commons,
London.