From Rick Hayward. Remember Rick did this great post last week? It featured an astonishing graph of winter-to-spring mortality for all years in England and Wales from 1993-94 to 2019-2020, with numbers from the ONS, which showed that 2019-20 was only slightly bigger than all the other years (click to enlarge): I wondered whether […]
More Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here (up to week 26, week ending 26 June). NHS England data here. Other Covid data here. All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Data from NHS England. Percentage of deaths […]
This is an article by Stephen Jackson, solicitor principal at Jackson Osborne Employment Lawyers, here writing in his capacity as Editor for the lockdown website laworfiction.com, arguing that health and safety risk assessments present the best opportunity to resist social distancing. Fiction: Health and safety obligations require social distancing measures to be imposed in the […]
This is an article by Rick Hayward. [Note from Hector: this article was updated on Fri 17-7-20 to add the very interesting graph shown as figure 3(2).] 1. Introduction ‘Follow the Science’ is the phrase frequently used in both demands and justifications concerning Covid-19. This basic analysis is not about resolving issues around wider linguistic […]
More Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here (up to week 25, week ending 19 June). NHS England data here. (NHS data is more recent, see dates on graphs). All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Data from NHS […]
This is a post by Robert Watson. Robert is a retired Professor. This post analyses the ONS mortality statistics for the first 25 weeks of 2020 taking account of the demographic changes and longer-term mortality trends of the population of England & Wales. Essentially, as Covid-19 appears to be a new disease – the first […]
This is an article by Sam Case, a former police officer now working in sport and health. I carried the old-style truncheon. It was pretty useless. Smashed the odd window with it. It resided mostly in my locker, furloughed, much like the population of late. The risk with weapon deployment is that sometimes, if you […]
More Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here (up to week 24, week ending 12 June). NHS England data here. (NHS data is more recent, see dates on graphs). All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Data from NHS […]
This is an article by Tim James. Tim manages legal liabilities arising from industrial disease cases. All opinions expressed are strictly his own. In the ongoing debate over the merits of the United Kingdom’s various lockdown measures the focus has understandably been upon comparing the number of lives the lockdown has allegedly saved with the […]
Turns out the utterly useless ONS have no population data for England and Wales before 1971, not even estimates. Unbelievable. The enormous of rubbish they have on their site, yet not even the most basic population data. I will have to find some alternative sources of information, and make some careful estimates. Update: This is […]
So I have taken the ONS’s annual death figures for England and Wales and graphed them all the way back to the turn of the twentieth century. Then I thought: what if we presumed that the death toll for 2020 is the five-year average plus the Covid-19 numbers? This is likely to be a high […]
More graphs from Christopher Bowyer. Christopher sent these to me last week but with all the Parler happenings I haven’t had time to get them up until now. (Similarly, if I haven’t replied to your e-mails it’s because I’m behind, will catch up soon.) ONS data here. NHS England data here. All graphs can be […]
This is an article by Sam Case, a former police officer now working in sport and health. Affray, riot, arson, vandalism, looting. Words that conjure up images of street brawls, burning cars, smashed windows and police officers in NATO helmets. Large scale public disorder is an interesting phenomena, behaving a bit like pathogens. Nothing for […]
This is an article by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 years working for one of the biggest oil companies in the world. I have had enough. After nearly 3 months of this, I am going to call it for what it is: TOTAL AND UTTER NONSENSE. […]
This is an article by Jeremy Harris. Jeremy is a businessman and investor in New Zealand. Why is America burning itself down in reaction to the murder of George Floyd and why are people in other countries with no discernible problem with police brutality – especially proportionally greater brutality towards minorities – marching about this […]
Latest graphs from Christopher Bowyer. Many thanks to Christopher for doing these, not just from me, but from many, many other people (these graphs end up all over the web, and social media). ONS data here. NHS England data here. All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) […]
This is an article by Christopher Bowyer, who has produced many graphs for HD Magazine. Having produced graphs of the NHS England Covid-19 deaths statistics for the past month or so, I thought I would have a go at analysing the https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases data. Before I go any further, please bear in mind […]
This is an article by Rory Hamilton. Rory is a ship’s pilot and the dad of four teenagers. He has spent the lockdown in close contact with different captains and crews from all over the world. He is a big lockdown sceptic and has had no truck for this incoherent, illogical, authoritarian and cowardly government […]
This is an article by Dave Hampson. Dave Hampson is currently attempting to make it in the 70s rock music scene. Check out his music on Spotify or get a free track download here. The COVID lockdown, upon first inspection, appeared to stem from the government listening to the advice of a single academic. This […]
This is an article by Jodie Simpson, based on a letter she wrote to her MP. I would like to register my objection, in the strongest terms, to the continuing lockdown. Before I go on, let’s just take a moment to think about the meaning of the word ‘lockdown’. It seems to have originated in […]