There’s an explosive news article at the BMJ backing up what I, and many writers and commentators here have been saying, that a great many of the recent excess deaths have not been caused by Covid-19. Covid-19: “Staggering number” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19 Only a third of the excess […]
One of my academic readers, who has been doing bar graphs of the ONS data, has sent some more through (also based on ONS stats), and they’re very revealing. First of all, here’s a graph of of all deaths (per million) in Eng & Wales between December and the start of May for each year […]
The College of Policing have issued a statement — PDF here — saying that government guidelines cannot be enforced. This means that the government’s social distancing guidelines are not enforceable in England. They can try to harass you over it, but they cannot enforce it, so tell them to go away if they try. I […]
This is an article from Simon Anthony, a one-time theoretical physicist. A few days ago, in response to an article by Hector Drummond on the Critic website, I wrote a short piece, also carried by that website. I argued that, if the sex ratios of non-Covid-19 deaths haven’t been changed by the advent of C-19, […]
This is an árticle 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. This week-end we were all hoping to hear about a lifting of restrictions and a view of a rapid road back to normality. I […]
Thomas Galen (not his real name) took a degree in Medical Sciences and then spent thirty years working with models and numbers in finance and with large businesses. Over the last few weeks, we have seen how hard it can be to understand how many people are dying and from what. For most people, this […]
Here’s the Covid-19 disaster in Germany in the all-cause death figures. (Destatis’s own graph). Can you see it? It’s the red line. Looks pretty flat and normal, you say? No, not at all, it’s just, er… resting. Yeah, resting. Tired and shagged out after a long squawk, I expect. Really it’s a monstrous mountain, it’s […]
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 12th of May this year marks the 25th anniversary of the 1995 underwater thriller Crimson Tide, directed […]
This is an article by Prof Robert Watson. This article critiques the analysis of Warwick University researchers Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee. Their research (henceforth, O&P) received a large amount of publicity recently (with articles in the Daily Mail and Telegraph). Moreover, a ‘Policy Briefing paper‘, a separate press release, and the research paper itself, […]
This is an article by Prof Robert Watson, whose last article at Hector Drummond Magazine was one of the best academic analyses to have come out of the Covid-19 fiasco. Introduction and Summary This post focuses on the following issue: To incorporate the week 17 (April 24th) ONS updated material (published on 5th May) to […]
Thanks to the VE Day celebrations, World War II comparisons seem to be common at the moment, with the #StayHomeSaveLives brigades comparing staying at home and watching TV to the men who went to battle against the enemy. I have been saying for months that saving lives is not all that matters. It matters a […]
This is an article by Alistair Haimes, who has worked with data professionally for 25 years. Alistair has recently published two articles in the Critic magazine. Covid-19 is no more than a nasty, but basically normal, viral respiratory infection, though you’ll be regarded rather as a mullah regards a blasphemer if you say so. Why […]
This is an article by journalist Ronan Maher. His Twitter page is www.twitter.com/MaherRonan Practically everybody knows, if only indirectly, about the Coronavirus Act (2020), which royally ascended on March the 25th, 2020 and confines us in our homes ever since (save for an hour for exercise a day). Far fewer people realise that it contained […]
For those people who want the lockdown to continue for a year or so until a vaccine is found, and think the government will just pay the wages of anyone furloughed, bear in mind that currently 6.3 million workers have been furloughed. Suppose the government pays them £20 000 a year on average. That’s £126 […]
A graph of England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) and presence (green) of a pre-existing condition. Thanks to reader Christopher Bowyer for doing this graph. The data comes from the NHS. Larger version here (click to enlarge):
This is a post by Simon Anthony, a one-time theoretical physicist. Congratulations are due to Simon, as he has had an article published in The Critic, Britain’s hottest new magazine. Recently two regular contributors here (if you can call me that) have been published in The Critic, so if you fancy yourself as a writer, […]
This is a post by Malcolm Delingpole. As more and more people get a free view of Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans, with its revelation that renewable energy is not that renewable, and indeed produces very little of our energy, it either confirms what we knew all along or has us desperate to […]
This article is by Simon Anthony, a one-time theoretical physicist. Over the past couple of months many misleading or wrong statements have been made by the media about C-19. Unfortunately, a number of these errors haven’t been corrected and instead have been reiterated and amplified to the extent they’ve become established folklore, repeated without reflection […]
A group of researchers at Sweden’s Uppsala University, including two Professors and two Associate Professors, who were inspired by Neil Ferguson and his team, created their own computer model, based on the Imperial College model. Their paper is here. They predicted, for various scenarios and transmission rates, between approximately 15 000 and 105 000 deaths […]
The latest Euromomo graphs clearly show that excess deaths have peaked and are now declining everywhere in Europe. For the countries that had excess deaths, that is. A lot of countries have had nothing at all. First of all, here’ s a graph of Europe as a whole (at least, all the participating countries). Week […]