Instant Opinion: coronavirus lockdown ‘turning us into a nation of spies’

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.

1. Jenni Russell in The Times

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Lockdown is turning us into a nation of spies

“It’s been a revelation to discover how ready Britons are to spy on, report and judge those around them in this pandemic. Almost 200,000 reports of lockdown breaches had been made to the police by the end of April, exhausting many forces’ capacity to respond.

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