This is an article by Jodie Simpson (not her real name), who has gone through the minutes of the meetings held by the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group of Emergencies (SAGE). I’ve read through the SAGE minutes, from March to the present date. Below are selected quotes, with very little input from me. This is just […]
This is an article by Jeremy Harris. Jeremy is a businessman and investor in New Zealand, one of the few whose businesses seems to have profited from Covid madness thus far – the advantage of being well hedged. Background from Hector: A New Zealand professor, Rod Jackson, published a scaremongering article in the NZ Herald, […]
Reader Christopher Bowyer has once again at the digital coalface making graphs, which he has sent to me. Some are based on NHS England data, and some on the ONS week 21 release. (Bear in mind that ‘with Covid-19’ deaths includes any death where the deceased was suspected of having Covid-19, even if it was […]
This is an article by Charlie Spedding, whose blog can be found here. Charlie is a former pharmacist. He was also a champion long-distance runner in his younger days. He was the winner of the 1984 London Marathon, and he is an Olympic bronze medallist. Media attention has been focussed firmly on the misdemeanours of […]
This is an article by Dominey Jenner. It was hard to get through that last hymn on 15th March having just been told that, because of the impending coronavirus epidemic, our church would no longer be able to meet for the foreseeable future. The enormity of it all, both spiritually and emotionally was like a […]
For quite a while I’ve been trying to find the US all-cause death stats for the recent years, but I always assumed that before too long someone more knowledgeable about the US figures would get them and make a graph. But if anyone did, I never saw it. The CDC website is pretty awful, and […]
This is an article by Sam Case (not his real name). I write as a former police officer now working in sport and health. Policed during the 80’s HIV epidemic and wasn’t even given a pair of rubber gloves. Justifying legislation to place healthy people into forced quarantine is something that should be resisted if […]
Reader Christopher Bowyer has been busy again, and has sent me some more graphs, some based on NHS England data, and some on the ONS week 20 release. First, NHS England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Next, percentage of deaths with Covid-19 by pre-existing condition. (94.8% […]
Dominic Cummings has made a terrible mistake. I don’t mean going to Durham, or Barnard Castle. Which may have been mistakes, but they are very minor compared to the real mistake he has made. The real mistake he has made is that he trusted the chattering classes, and their pet scientists, on the Covid-19 and […]
This is an article by Thaddeus Michaels (not his real name), who is a data scientist. As a data scientist, I have a huge amount of respect for anyone who takes a quantitative approach to tackling a problem. Statistics, data analysis – even forecasting and modelling – are there to bring a sense of scale […]
This is an article by Chris Larkin, a professional filmmaker. I think I have always voted Tory; I can well remember how pleased I was at John Major’s surprise victory in 1992, and have occasionally campaigned for the party locally. I make films for a living, and I’m one of the few people working in […]
This is an article by Simon Anthony, a one-time theoretical physicist. Hector adds: I don’t agree with all of Simon’s analysis here, but you don’t have to write something I agree with to get published here. If you’re thinking of submitting a piece, see the details here. There’s been some disagreement about the justification for […]
This is an article by Andrew Mahon. Andrew is a writer based in London, who has written for the Spectator, the Daily Wire, Human Life Review, New English Review, Brexit Central, Catholic Journal, Conservative Woman and others. The NHS is so ours. But why is it that we never hear of ‘our police’ or ‘our […]
This is an interview conducted in 2035 by music journalist Jason Holmes with the artist called Tone. Jason can be found at @JasonAHolmes. It’s a bright cold day in April, and the clocks are striking thirteen. “It’s good to be alive in the year of our Lord, 2035,” says TONE as he sits down outside […]
Someone has made good spot with this paper, and has let me know. It’s called ‘When to release the lockdown: A wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits‘, and the lead author is Professor Richard Layard, an extremely distinguished economist at the LSE. It was published in April 2020 by the LSE’s Centre for Economic […]
This is interesting. I came across this 2016 Guardian article pushing a report that said “ultra-rich” philanthropists, in particular Bill Gates, are using their money to set their own agendas in poor countries and undermining governments and UN and its agencies. Study identifies Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations among rich donors that are […]
This is an article by Dan C, whose Twitter page is @SirDanofC. For over a century now, every generation has grown slightly more fearful of life, with innate levels of courage having been salami-sliced from birth as a result of the efforts of the nanny state. Until recently, I had wearily considered this an unfortunate […]
This is an article by Dene Bebbington, who is a freelance writer. Catastrophism is ever popular, especially in the last few years. Particularly since the EU referendum campaign our society has been suffering a malaise of constant worry about potential catastrophic events such as Brexit, climate change, and now the Covid-19 pandemic. What all three […]
I’ve written a longish article called ‘The Real Problem With Epidemiological Models’, which Toby Young has published at his Lockdown Sceptics site. You can read it here. (This link won’t be clickable from the front page of Hector Drummond Magazine, you need to click on this post first, then the link will be clickable.)
This is an article by Peter Forsythe, who lives in Hong Kong. This article was originally published on Peter’s blog here. For some lovely photos of Peter’s garden and the nature surrounding his place, go here. If lockdowns were effective, you would expect a correlation between the stringency of the lockdown and the number of […]