It was reported last week that despite fears of the mental health crisis prompted by the lockdowns leading to a spike in suicides in 2020, the number of people committing suicide in the U.K. did not rise after the first lockdown. While the provisional rate of suicides for 2020 is lower than that of 2019, this may be due to delays to coroner inquests, meaning the actual figure could be much higher, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The Mail has the story.
Registered suicides in England fell in 2020 as inquests were delayed during the coronavirus pandemic, official data shows.
Some 4,902 suicides were registered across the country last year – giving a provisional rate of 9.9 suicide deaths per 100,000 people, the ONS said.
That represents a fall from 2019, when the rate was 10.8 suicide deaths per 100,000 people.
The ONS said the fall “most likely reflects delays to coroner inquests, because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as opposed to a genuine decrease in suicide”.
The 2020 figures are provisional and will be finalised by the ONS in late 2021.
All deaths by suicide are investigated by coroners, with deaths usually registered around five to six months after they occur due to the length of time it takes to hold an inquest.
Of the suicides registered in 2020, more than half (51.2%) occurred that year. Some 3,674 involved males, and 1,228 females.
Between April and June 2020, during the first national lockdown, the provisional suicide rate fell by 36.1% compared with the same period in 2019.
The number of registered suicides in this quarter was the lowest since 2001.
This is most likely to be due to the impact of the pandemic on the coroner’s service, such as delays to inquests as the service adapted to social distancing measures, the ONS said.
The number of registered suicides increased in the second half of 2020, most likely due to inquests resuming, the ONS said.
In November, the charity Rethink Mental Illness said the number of people turning to its website for support with suicidal thoughts had tripled in the first six months of lockdown. A new study also found that the lack of in-person treatments – because of lockdowns – has made mental health patients feel as though they “were missing out on care”.
The Mail’s report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A report from the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a decrease in U.S. suicides in 2020 by 2,700, from 47,500 to 44,800. But, at the same time, there was a substantial increase in the number of “unintended injury” deaths (an increase of 19,000 from 2019) which was “largely driven by drug overdose[s]”.
Dr Gary Ordog, MD, from the Department of Health Services in the County of Los Angeles (retired) said:
I was surprised by the suicide rate reported to have a major decrease in 2020. It seems from most other reports that the suicide rate has increased since the pandemic began. This may be explained by the fact that the category of “Unintentional Injury” had a major increase at the same time, and the fact that this category includes drug overdoses. As there is often inadequate history in a fatal drug overdose case, many of these may be purposeful and so suicidal. This would explain the perceived increase in suicide rate since the current pandemic began. Perhaps further analysis of the data would elucidate this incongruity.
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That amount of money would buy Zelensky a lovely yacht I’m sure!
Perhaps, it already has..?
I’m only kidding. I’m sure they have the receipts for everything…
The dog ate all the receipts. It’s not Zelenski’s fault. Honest.
Or they were all destroyed when one of their own missiles hit a building while they blamed Russia.
The more unpopular liberal European leaders are, they become more bellicose.
Starmer’s ratings have gone up with his warmongering statements.
Russia are no threat to Europe or anyone.
Liberals love to virtue signal to save their own skins and blame Trump for Ukraine’s inevitable defeat. Macron is no different.
“The theater piece directed by Starmer at Lancaster House with an assembly of 15 European heads of government (and Justin Trudeau of Canada) was not really choreographed to try to convince Trump to reverse course, which appears unlikely, but as an elaborate presentation to save the hides of politicians who invested so much of their own political capital and wasted so much of their citizens’ money in the inevitable and humiliating defeat of Ukraine.
That Ukraine would lose was obvious two years ago to Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz when they both gently broke that news to Zelensky privately in Paris in February 2023.
The private remarks clashed with public statements from European leaders who had routinely said then, and still say today, that they will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes to achieve victory on the battlefield. That was Joe Biden’s line too.
Indeed Ukraine’s losses have become unbearable. Macron and Scholz tried to tell Zelensky at that Élysée Palace dinner in February 2023 that he must consider peace talks with Moscow, the Journal reported.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/05/europes-facing-saving-theater-on-ukraine/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6e151c42-dc2a-4956-a041-c5171bb4b9dc
The clue is that Two-Tier has made it absolutely clear that “his” Coalition of the Willing relies on the USA giving Ukraine Security Guarantees.
Trump’s already ruled that out and Putin has made it absolutely clear he will not accept NATO “peacekeepers” on Ukraine soil.
TTK and the EU Ghouls are just grandstanding for the cameras and are desperately trying to pivot their taxpayer-funded money-generator from the “Saving the Planet-Net Zero SCAM” to a massive increase in defence spending and “Saving Europe from the Big Bad Putin.”
It will end in disaster for any EU troops sent to Ukraine.
When they come back in body bags the liberal elite deluded politicians will be pilloried.
Two Tier’s little boost will be history come the 2029 election when Ukraine will be forgotten about. As much as the Blob, Soros and the WEF would want the war to still be going on in 2029, there are just not enough Ukrainians left to fight it and not enough mercenaries willing to go there either. Missing from most of the legacy media is that the much vaunted Kursk salient is about to be cut off in a pincer movement.
Agreed.
It’s so easy to give away money you steal from your population.
“Here Zelensky, have a bit more money – sorry “support”. We’ll just take it from the giant pool of tax money that we collect and which everyone has lost track what it’s all used for.”
Actually, they don’t take it from that either, because that’s all spent and then some. They do it by issuing more debt. More debt, which no one actually buys except the central bank, which is really another way of saying printing money – so more inflation – and institutional investors which are bound by mandates to have certain amounts of public debt.
The whole thing is a giant fleecing operation. That’s why the posturing and the rhetoric the Ukrainian flags, the media control. The population, who are going to pay for it one way or another, need to be riled up to hate Putin and love Ukraine and Zelensky.
Draw a circle around France and Germany and that’s where every major conflict in Europe has originated over the last 300 years – including two that involved the whole World.
So now they want another war.
This statement is seriously misleading because most of these ‘major conflicts’, however that’s defined, have been (or started as) wars between France and Germany¹. Especially, the so-called world world wars of the 20th century started as joint Franco-Russian revenge war (revenge for 1870/71, that is) against Germany, with the original coalition informally joint by Britain years before hostilities broke out.
It’s also factually very dubious because while France has existed as united country during all this time, Germany didn’t. Until 1806, the Holy Roman Empire still nominally existed although it was composed of a myriad of middle-sized, small and smaller de facto sovereign entities which were usually at war with each other. Napoleon eliminated this pseudo-state but he was ultimately conquered by the British strategy of starting one coalition war against France after the other until one of them finally succeeded. Afterwards, there was a loose confederation of German states but no Germany and these states weren’t involved in military conflicts outside of their respective territories until the Franco-German war of 1870/71 which begat a united German state which enjoyed a peaceful existence in Europe for the next 43 years, until the Entente set forth to destroy it at any cost, see above.
¹ Single example: The seven years war. In continental Europe this was a war of a coalition of Russia, Austria and France against Prussia which took place entirely inside of Germany. In parallell with this, there was global war of England against France for colonies and to help with that, England subsidized the Prussian war effort on the continent.
I’m glad that France hasn’t given much money at all to fund that clown and that sh*tshow.
And Macron isn’t France. He is a t***.
Please don’t use the ‘Global Firepower Index’.
It is a ‘Fred in a shed’ operation that bases its rankings on raw data (military strength, number of frigates, number of tanks, number of missiles, etc.).
It does not take into account other key factors: the condition of equipment, standard of military training, natural resources, economic resilience, alliances, the proportion of GDP devoted to the army, whether or not it has signed up to security pacts, whether or not it possesses nuclear weapons and so on.
Use of such a superficial index makes it difficult to take this article seriously.
Use: https://www.janes.com/
or
https://www.iiss.org/publications/the-military-balance/
instead.
As I’m sure you will know, ‘The Economist’ is also a good reference in this regard.
https://www.economist.com/china/2024/11/04/in-some-areas-of-military-strength-china-has-surpassed-america
You wouldn’t want this prat on your side. He is all over the place. God knows what constitutes the attraction of this man. His ‘wife’, I mean come on.
What are your connections to Russia, Noah? How much have they paid you, through RT or otherwise?
What has happened to the ‘Stop the War Coalition’? Once ‘led’ by Comrade Corbyn & Comrade MacDonald … but the ‘left’ seem to be in favour of war now?
Be fair ….. Zelensky’s apparently got a bolt hole lined up in France. I wonder how he paid for that?
They say we are doomed to repeat our mistakes if we forget history. The situation in Ukraine is shaping up to be the Vietnam of our age.
Perhaps Tump is learning from the mistakes made then while others are not?