a closer look at what s going on in the world next hour that s with my colleague kevin no one but 1st the main events that shaped 2021 crosstalk stay with us. hello and welcome to cross talk we re all things are considered i m peter a well it will be very difficult to forget the year it is about it and indeed during 2020 was the norm and normality elusive many have reflected on what has been lost maybe the focus should be on what may never return. to discuss this and more i m joined by my guest patrick a means that implement he is the energy and founder of 21st century wire and in some share we have john laughlin he is a university lecturer in history and political philosophy cradling frost up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let s go to john 1st you know people will obviously think of 2020 is the year of kofi. but i tend to think of it already in a lot of the end of the year is the year of overreach in the end of the o
a low in welcome across stopper all things are considered on peter lawwell it will be very difficult to forget the year it is about it and indeed during 2020 change was the norm and normality elusive many have reflected on what has been lost maybe the focus should be on what may never return. to discuss this and more i m joined by my guest dr cummings and implement he is the energy and founder of 21st century wire and in song share we have john law and he has a university lecturer in history and political philosophy originally crossed. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let s go to john 1st you know people will obviously think of 2020 as the year of kofi. but i tend to think of it already in a lot of the end of the year is the year of overreach in the end of the of the social contract am i wrong about that no i think that s exactly right in in the various knock downs that have afflicted the whole world and which that s not forg
informally the freedom of expression. the 1st 3 were abolished formally the others the other the freedom expression informally all these vanished by government decree in spite of decades literally 5060 years of discourse about human rights the universal declaration of human rights of 948 the urban convention of 1950 and so on and when you talk about the social contract therefore peter you ve put your finger only on the key point because i ve always been a skeptic of human rights because i see that they are politically abused and i believe that liberty in the law is guaranteed by the state and if the state one day decides not to guarantee it or respect it then it s a political battle and not a judicial one well we ve seen the truth of that but we have also unfortunately seen the horrible totalitarian pretensions of our governments very often acting as. you know from. his great resets in collaboration with big business and whole of this of course in the context now i come back
sells all sorts of basic rights have been. summerlee abrogates and including by government decree in other words not all right. they duly voted law in the respective national register just this was the case in france for example where the original lockdown in march was not validated by the parliament until 5 days after it ended in divorce so all these rights freedom of association 7 believe that freedom all the religion and the freedom of movement and it s informally the freedom of expression. the 1st 3 were abolished formally the others in the other the freedom expression informally all these vanished by government decree in spite of decades literally 5060 years of discourse about human rights the universal declaration of human rights of $948.00 the european convention of. 150 and so on and when you talk about the social contract therefore peter you ve put your finger only on the key point because i ve always been a skeptic of human rights because i see that they are politic
they originally locked down in march was not validated by the parliament until 5 days after it ended in divorce so all these rights the freedom of association 7 believe the freedom of religion the freedom of movement and. informally the freedom of expression. the 1st 3 were abolished formally the others the other the freedom expression informally all these vanished by government decree in spite of decades literally 5060 years of discourse about human rights the universal declaration of human rights of 948 the urban convention of 1950 and so on and when you talk about the social contract therefore peter you ve put your finger only on the key point because i ve always been a skeptic of human rights because i see that they are politically abused and i believe that liberty. and the law is guaranteed by the state and if the state one day decides not to guarantee it or respect it then it s a political battle and not a judicial one well we ve seen the truth of that but we have also