The state decides who does and does not live, and what counts as a person of value.

The WEF is committed to a totalising world view, so every problem will be solved by more globalisation, more migration, more universal regulation, more destruction of tradition.

"For the state to ask a 12 year old to deliberate – without parental consent – on a matter as important as personal vaccination is totally unacceptable,” says William Clouston, Leader of the SDP.

Episode thirty-six of The Week in Review is out now.

We are obsessed with political freedom for its own sake, we deify it, praise it, hollowly chant the words that represent it as if we still know what they mean. What is good about freedom? Why do we value it?