- “Teachers Kicked and Sworn at As Pupils’ Post-Covid Behaviour Worsens” – Fears school behaviour policies are not fit for purpose as staff report they have been assaulted, ‘upskirted’ and abused, reports the Telegraph.
- “Curbing Covid’s Assault on Kids’ Mental Health” – Kids might not display symptoms of mental illness, such as anxiety or depression, for quite some time after experiencing a traumatic event like the pandemic, reports Politico.
- “Covid May Have Originated From Humans, Chinese Scientist Claims” – The genetic sequences of viral samples taken from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan were “almost identical” to those of patients infected with COVID-19, reports CNN.
- “King’s Green Energy Firm Was Investigated After 38-Day Greenhouse Gas Leak” – A green energy company set up by King Charles was investigated for numerous health and safety breaches after the leak of more than 1,000 tonnes of gas, according to the Guardian.
- “Brazilian Government Eyes Permanent Climate Emergency” – President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s administration is considering declaring a state of climate emergency in 1,038 municipalities, reports MercoPress.
- “The ‘Lehman Moment’ For the ESG Movement” – The banking crisis triggered by the collapse of SVB could be a ‘Lehman moment’ for the progressive business movement, reports the Washington Examiner.
- “Greens’ Hypocrisy Deafening on Not-So-Green Wind Farm Plans” – If the Greens were genuinely committed to reducing human impact on the environment, they would denounce the sins of big wind and solar, according to Sky News Australia.
- “Britain’s Net Zero Future Hinges on a £35 Piece of Paper That Is Wiping Thousands Off House Prices” – The hopelessly flawed system of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) is forcing landlords to make expensive upgrades, reports the Telegraph.
- “Archbishop of Canterbury Defends £100 Million Fund to Address Church of England’s Past Links to Slavery” – In Easter sermon, Archbishop Justin Welby said money was not set aside because of “postcolonial guilt”, reports the Guardian.
- “Pastor Spends Easter in Jail After Another Arrest at Drag Queen Event” – Canadian Pastor Derek Reimer faces eight new charges after protesting drag queen story time, according to Fox News.
- “Do Not Call Me a Cis Woman” – Nana Akua stands up to LGBTQ+ activist Sam Dowler in debate over Nike’s decision to sponsor trans woman Dylan Mulvaney on GB News.
- “Nike’s Mulvaney Campaign Insults Women Across the World” – In the battle to be ‘inclusive’, Nike has excluded the overwhelming majority of the population who have breasts, argues Annabelle Sanderson in the Express.
- “Tony’s Chocolonely: The ‘Virtuous’ Bar Conquering Britain” – The Dutch firm is the U.K.’s fastest-growing chocolate bar brand and claims to shun unethical practices, according to the Times.
- “Woke University Scraps ‘Lent’ Term as Christian Titles Replaced” – Swansea University says Christian labels for terms no longer resonate with students, reports the Express.
- “Texas Governor Abbott Vows to Pardon Army Sergeant Convicted of Killing BLM Protester” – The governor blamed Friday’s conviction on the Democrat District Attorney José Garza, according to the New York Post.
- “Riley Gaines Threatens Legal Action After Being Attacked by Trans Rights Activists During Campus Speech” – The former college swimmer was barricaded in a classroom while trying to speak about protecting women’s sports, reports the New York Post.
- “School Board Upholds ‘Parental Secrecy Policy’” – The Chico Unified School Board in California voted 3-2 in favour of schools having the ability to keep a child’s gender identity secret from parents, reports the PostMillennial.
- “Tennessee Lawmaker Says Race Did Not Play a Role in Expelling Black Members” – State Representative Bryan Richey has denied accusations that the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic lawmakers because of their race, according to the Washington Examiner.
- “‘So Little Transparency’ About Number of Children Being Treated at Gender Clinics” – A Freedom of Information request has revealed that a Newcastle gender clinic has more than twice the number of patients on hormone blockers as its Sydney counterpart, reports Rita Panahi on Sky News Australia.
- “We’re constantly told that we live in this deeply racist society, yet people who are black and brown are desperate to get here” – Comedian and Triggernometry co-host Konstantin Kisin talks race, freedom of expression and gulags in an interview with Tom Harwood on GB News.
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Climate change?
And what were the rest caused by? “Protect the NHS”?
“In previous waves, almost all excess deaths could broadly be explained by Covid.”
Really? Some, probably. But almost all? Shutting down the NHS, throwing the old and frail out of hospital, isolating people…
I think they mean they can be explained by Covid magically curing dementia and cancer deaths. They were doing it last year and the same think seems to be happening, periodically now…some weeks when Covid deaths are up, some of the usual suspects are down.
Ah yes of course, how silly of me. Lots of things that used to kill people seem to have become much less dangerous because of covid.
…and the magical disappearance of flu …
No, no no – lockdowns caused the disappearance of the flu which proves that lockdowns work…
That was amazing but it’s because we weren’t circulating apparently? Does this mean covid can travel from an infected person, out of their letterbox and into next door via the same route? It’s a bloody clever virus
Damn right, it also knows the difference between shops and pubs
And it knows it should stay away from supermarket employees.
“All deaths within 28 days of receiving a positive test”
For whatever reason :97 years old, 32 stone, Suicide, etc.
Feel free to add any other type of death.
And Midazolam.
“could broadly be explained”
If Guy Fawkes were alive today, this column might argue, his target should be the government’s health science establishment.
I’d strongly suggest, Fleet Street instead.
When I was growing up, the Fourth Estate openly prided itself as the guardian of society, the monitor of the government. The Fourth Estate had as its duty, factually informing the public and – as needed – sounding the call to arms.
Today (partly because of the rise of the Web, and then social media) the Fourth Estate has largely turned tabloid in a desperate rush to maintain revenues.
It’s pursuing the eternal truth expressed by America’s H. L. Mencken: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Without the Fourth Estate, the health science establishment would be a housewife yelling across her back yard fence.
(And so would Boris and Donald be ….)
More pointless duff data.
Carry on regardless.
I find this a puzzling article, only a few days ago they published an item discussing how age adjusted mortality was at normal levels;
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/29/octobers-age-standardised-mortality-rate-was-equal-to-the-five-year-average/
I would have thought this article today would have taken the previous item into account to give a balanced consideration with regard to UK deaths. Is there cause for concern in any way? Of particular concern is deaths in the under 40s and do they give any indication of possible vaccine effects.
The problem there is ‘age standardised mortality’. It is a concept that tends to be misunderstood and is often used inappropriately.
It certainly does nothing to highlight additional deaths in younger age groups — it, like the raw death rate, will mainly be sensitive to changes in the death rates in the elderly and will be unlikely to show any shift at all with even substantial changes in the death rate in the young.
Specifically wrt covid, it is idiocy to use age-standardised mortality to describe deaths during a pandemic which has a very strong age dependency for deaths.
My father died of a heart attack at home on 21st November, he is one of the non Covid unexpected deaths at home . He had had his booster vaccine the day before, he’d then immediately felt unwell, the following morning he had chest pain, he died that evening. We will never know whether his heart attack was caused by the vaccine, but I strongly suspect it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What I do know is that I had only seen my dad for 4 hours since March 2020, because he was scared of catching Covid. His last 20 months were lived in fear, away from his family. People must wake up and realise that Covid is not worth giving up our lives for. Life is for living, not just avoiding dying. We are not merely cells to keep apart, in order to avert death, we are social creatures who need human touch and love to thrive. I hope that in saying all this, one person might go and see their family, one person might stop being so afraid of Covid that they hide away from life. If my comment helps anyone, then Dad’s death will not have been wasted. Please live your life today, because nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.
Sorry to hear about your Dad. Beautifully put. The state of fear that these lies have created in the old (and the young) will last for years and will not be easily undone, and this is one of the most egregious of the many evils perpetrated in the name of “saving lives”. To use “saving lives” as an excuse for political and financial self-aggrandisement, and to knowingly destroy lives in the process, is simply wicked.
So sorry to read about your Dad. I will wager that there are many people who have been led to a similar and horrible situation. Hiding from a entirely survivable disease and being given experimental vaccines that likely cause significantly more harm than good. Scared witless by government and pseudo medical propaganda.
One day there will be a reckoning, people are awakening to the truth and every day I hear more and more of my friends and family express disgust at the actions of the government. The slow drips of truth are forming in puddles, soon there will be streams and rivers which will begin to wash away this madness, our time is coming.
help! I’m not in a good place at the moment. Fallen out with my mother who I love dearly over my refusal to have the Covid jab. I have put forward all the reasons for me not having it but she cannot see my point of view at all. She basically thinks that by not having it I am dicing with death and not only that want to kill her too. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated – I really do despair.
Depends on how old she is and how much you value the relationship…you could just lie to her and say you’ve had it? It’s not like she will ever suspect the truth because all the jaboids seem to catch awful wu flu anyway. You’re not putting her in any additional “danger” so morally it’s only a white lie.
I get the same from my mother and sister, both work in the national covvie service so are regularly dosed with extreme propaganda. I haven’t yet found a way to break through I’m afraid, I guess it’s going to take something bigger. I just refuse to talk to them about it – divert all conversations to topics that are much more pleasant and entirely unrelated, ideally that emphasise how much better life used to be. There you go, nudge theory being used for good instead of evil.
In the first wave, covid and excess deaths were closely aligned at 51.6K to 50K
Whereas in the second wave covid deaths exceeded excess deaths by 23.4K (151.5K vs 128.1K) so even tho’ the NHS was closed to everyone except covid cases we are asked to believe that there were 23.4K fewer deaths from CVD & cancer etc.
And the ones that are linked to covid are exaggerated because of the bizarre policy of counting a death from any cause that occurs within 28 days of a positive test result as being due to covid.
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Yes many linked to the vaccine. You know things like heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms. Little things like that. Any autopsies done on the victims? Any history taking? History of Covid vaxx?
So how come, then, that the FOI requests to local authorities showed that across the country there were few ”excess” burials or cremations?