Over the past 15 months we’ve had a barrage of statistics presented to us shouting about how great the vaccines are at preventing hospitalisation from (or with) Covid. However, these statistics have been light on detail on how they were calculated and we’ve not seen much sight at all of the raw data that the statistics were based upon.
Until now. In April, a paper was published by the UKHSA (currently in pre-print, which means that it hasn’t yet undergone the usual peer-review process) on its statistical analysis of a selection of hospitalisation data by vaccination status. The intent of this paper was to support its statements that the vaccines prevent hospitalisation. However, the paper also includes the raw data upon which the UKHSA statistics were derived, and these data tell a very different story to that presented by the UKHSA. The data show:
- Far higher accident and emergency admission rates for reasons other than Covid in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated.
- Much higher rates of hospitalisation due to non-Covid acute respiratory illness in the vaccinated.
- Even higher A&E admissions and hospitalisations in the double-vaccinated (not boosted).
- Even where the data suggest that the vaccines offer some protection (the risk of admission to intensive care resulting from Covid infection) the results look like they might be an artefact created by the assumptions used by the UKHSA.
In addition, the data strongly suggest that the UKHSA is using an inappropriate method in its statistical analysis of vaccine effectiveness – the test-negative case-control (TNCC) method. It is likely that it has been significantly overestimating the effectiveness of the vaccines at preventing hospitalisation.
The data released by the UKHSA and expounded below aren’t proof that the vaccines have caused a great deal of harm and injury to the population, but they do raise a huge red-flag that something is amiss. Urgent investigations need to be undertaken to clarify the situation regarding the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.
A note on the Test-Negative Case-Control (TNCC) method
The basic concept of measuring vaccine efficacy (in a trial) or effectiveness (based on real-world results) is relatively straightforward – simply calculate the ratio of the proportion of the vaccinated that get infected (or hospitalised) with the proportion of the unvaccinated that get infected (or hospitalised). However, while this simple method can work well, it can be affected by differences in the types of people vaccinated and unvaccinated and more powerful methods are preferred.
The ‘gold standard’ for measurement of vaccine efficacy/effectiveness (VE) is the prospective matched cohort design. This is quite simple in concept – you simply divide the study into a number of groups of individuals with similar characteristics, based on the vulnerability to the disease and the typical effectiveness of vaccines. Matched cohort studies nearly always split into groups of similar age and sex, and will usually include many other factors thought to be related to risk of disease. For example, for Covid these might include race, BMI and whether the individual has diabetes – all factors identified in early data as being relevant risk factors.
The ‘prospective’ part means that the individuals are placed into their groups before they are given their doses of vaccine, but this isn’t the only way – it is possible to undertake a retrospective study where people are placed into their different groups after they are vaccinated (potentially some time after).
The problem with matched cohort trials is that they’re rather expensive and also require you to know what factors to control for when calculating vaccine efficacy/effectiveness. This led to the development of the test-negative case-control method. With this method you compare the ratio of positive (have the disease) to negative (don’t have the disease) tests results for a given condition (e.g. admission to hospital). This method, when applied correctly, automatically corrects for many biases, such as propensity to be tested or seek medical care, and is both accurate and removes much of the complexity and costs associated with matched-cohort studies. The important part is the ‘when applied correctly’ – if it is applied incorrectly then you end up with inaccurate and potentially misleading results.
The UKHSA data – Emergency admissions
Let’s apply the TNCC method to the data in the UKHSA paper on vaccine effectiveness at preventing hospitalisation. Fortunately, it offers raw data in its supplementary document. I’ll start with hospitalisations ‘with symptomatic Covid’ for those aged over 65 who presented to A&E for reasons other than accident/injury (Table S12 in the paper), and to keep things simple will look at ‘any vaccine’ (i.e., any number of doses) vs ‘no vaccine’ and only for the Omicron period (the data covers the period from 22nd November to 2nd February).
To show the TNCC method in action we can use the figures in the table above to gain an estimate of VE using the TNCC methodology:
VE = 100 × (1 – (873÷140,931) ÷ (103÷1,705) ) = 90%
Thus even with this simplified case where we only consider the protection offered by the vaccines to the ‘vaccinated group’ (with any number of doses, though most are boosted in the over-65 age group), we can see that TNCC estimates that the vaccines offer significant protection from hospitalisation, around 90%.
But wait – those raw numbers for A&E presentation by vaccination status look more than a little suspicious. We know that during the study period approximately 10 million individuals aged over 65 had been vaccinated with at least one dose of vaccine, and around 600,000 remained unvaccinated. Thus we can present the raw figures above as a ‘per 100,000’ to remove the effect of the size of the vaccinated vs unvaccinated groups.
Wow. According to the raw data the vaccinated are presenting to A&E without having Covid at around five times the rate of the unvaccinated. Sure, there are more hospitalisations with symptomatic Covid in the unvaccinated, but only by eight per 100,000.
In Table 2 above I have also included an estimate of vaccine effectiveness based on these raw data. Now, I’m being a bit naughty here as the data aren’t meant to be used this way – this is why I’ve used the UKHSA trick of greying out the text in the hope that no-one will notice. Nevertheless, for population-wide data this shouldn’t be too far out.
Now, I’m sure that epidemiologists up and down the land are shouting that the data shouldn’t be used in this way – and they’re right. It certainly doesn’t prove that the vaccinated are getting ill because of the vaccine. There are a number of reasons why this result might be found:
- The vaccinated might be much more likely to be hypochondriacs/malingerers and thus be going to A&E even though they’re not ill at all. More realistically, the vaccinated might have a lower threshold for the severity of symptoms required to get medical assistance at A&E. If this was the case then there would be vaccinated individuals presenting themselves to A&E where the average unvaccinated person with similar symptoms wouldn’t.
- The vaccinated might be much more unhealthy in general than the unvaccinated.
However, the sheer scale of the differences between the A&E visits not-for-Covid is huge, and given that these are population-wide figures I’d suggest that it couldn’t all be explained either by health seeking behaviours or because of general health – but I’d accept they they could certainly contribute.
Nevertheless, the TNCC assumption would be that the vaccinated are simply the type of people that are five times more likely to go to A&E (whether because of differences in behaviour or health) and thus they’re also going to be five times more likely to attend A&E with symptomatic Covid. The researchers would therefore adjust the figures to allow for this difference between the groups, boosting VE. I’d suggest that this latter point isn’t necessarily the case – it is very often the case that behaviours aren’t proportional like this, for example, just because an individual chooses to drive at 40mph in a 60mph zone, doesn’t mean he or she will drive at 20mph in a 30mph zone.
The alternative explanation:
- Some of the visits to A&E might be due to a reaction / side-effect / complication of the vaccines.
- The vaccines might have an impact on the immune system for diseases other than Covid, resulting in increased illness and thus presentation to A&E.
Just to be clear – we don’t know whether the vaccinated are seeing much higher admissions rates to A&E due to a vaccine effect or simply because the vaccinated have different behaviours and general health to the unvaccinated. However, anecdotal data on pressures on A&E services and on the general health of the nation (‘worst cold ever’) suggest that the vaccines may be at least partially responsible.
More on the emergency admissions data
The UKHSA paper also includes incidence by vaccination status (Table S12 again). We have to be a bit careful here as we don’t know when the individuals were vaccinated, but we do know that the incidence of Covid varied substantially through the period. Without information on which individuals were vaccinated on which date we run the risk of introducing a bias. However, we do have information about some aspects of the vaccinated population:
- Around 600,000 individuals over the age of 65 remain unvaccinated, and this hasn’t changed much for over six months (this is why it was safe to use this assumption in the prior analysis).
- The vaccination data suggest that around 90,000 individuals over the age of 65 took the first dose of vaccine during spring 2021 but didn’t receive the second dose.
- The vaccination data suggest that around 440,000 individuals over the age of 65 took their first and second doses of vaccine according to the vaccination schedule (i.e., early/late spring 2021) but didn’t receive the booster/third dose.
Table S12 splits out hospitalisation data for those vaccinated with their first dose more than 28 days before their positive test, and vaccinated with their second dose more than 175 days before their positive test. Thus we can tentatively include these specific data in our analysis – individuals that had their first dose (only) or second dose (no booster) some time before the study period started.
Two points immediately stand out.
First, the hospitalisation rate with symptomatic confirmed Covid in those that had a single dose of vaccine ‘some time before’ the study period is similar to the hospitalisation rate in the unvaccinated but their A&E presentation rate for ‘not Covid’ is 2.5 times the rate of the unvaccinated. The TNCC assumption would be that the similarity in the symptomatic Covid rate is a fluke and what’s important is that on average they’re simply the type of individuals that would go to A&E more often and if that group of individuals hadn’t been vaccinated they’d have had 2.5 times more hospitalisation rates ‘with Covid’. I suggest that it is far more likely that the single-dose individuals have no vaccine induced protection against hospitalisation but that they are very much more likely to attend A&E.
Second, the A&E attendance rate of the double-vaccinated (only) without Covid is very similar to the A&E attendance rate of the vaccinated (any dose). However, their hospitalisation rate ‘with Covid’ is 2.5 times greater than that of the vaccinated (any dose) – the double-dosed that didn’t take their booster appear to have the ‘worst of both worlds’: increased A&E attendance (non-Covid) and increased admission rates ‘with Covid’.
Summary so far:
- The UKHSA has provided us with some raw data on hospitalisations by vaccination status.
- Examination of the data suggests that ‘with Covid’ hospitalisation rates in the unvaccinated aren’t too far from those in the vaccinated (any dose). However, non-Covid admission rates for A&E are much much higher in the vaccinated (any dose) than the unvaccinated.
- The TNCC approach would suggest that the vaccinated are simply ‘the type of people’ more likely to attend A&E and that the vaccines really do offer substantial protection against hospitalisation ‘with Covid’.
- Examination of other data suggests that the single dosed have ‘with Covid’ rates similar to the unvaccinated but 2.5 greater A&E attendance (without Covid) and that the double dosed (only) appear to have the worst situation of all – much higher Covid hospitalisation and much higher non-Covid admission to A&E.
Admission rates for acute respiratory illness
Table S7 in the UKHSA paper presents data on hospitalisations after an A&E visit where the individual had symptomatic Covid (again, Omicron, over 65). This sounds like the condition for the previous table, but in that table the ‘Covid negative’ column counted all non-accident or injury A&E visits, whereas the data in Table S7 only consider those that had symptoms similar to Covid.
I’ll present only the rates this time (feel free to look up the raw numbers yourself).
That’s perhaps even more interesting. In terms of the overall ratios it is a similar situation to the previous table – approximately 40% lower hospitalisations with symptomatic Covid in the vaccinated compared with the unvaccinated, but around four-fold higher rates for admission with symptoms that look like Covid, but aren’t Covid. But the interesting part is in the detail:
- Even though the absolute rates are very much lower, the unvaccinated still have the lowest admission rate to A&E. However, the difference for the data in the table above is that a doctor had assessed the individual and determined that he or she was ill enough to warrant hospitalisation. Thus the data in the table above are not influenced by the ‘symptom severity threshold’ that different individuals have before they’ll go to A&E. This is particularly of note because it suggests that the very high rates of presentation to A&E in the vaccinated in Table 1 and 2 are unlikely to be simply because of the vaccinated are more likely to go to A&E for ‘more trivial reasons’ than the unvaccinated – it looks like the vaccinated as a group really are more likely to be ill.
- Over twice as many of the unvaccinated are hospitalised with symptomatic Covid than with a condition that looks like Covid but isn’t (17.5 vs 6.5 hospitalisations per 100,000). However, twice as many of the vaccinated are hospitalised with ‘looks like Covid but isn’t’ than ‘with Covid’ (23 vs 11 hospitalisations per 100,000).
This latter point is important – one of the potential problems with vaccines (in general) is viral interference, that is, that a vaccine changes the immune response to other infectious diseases. Is it the case that the vaccines are significantly increasing the incidence of other respiratory infections? I note that last autumn/winter we had a mini-epidemic of what was popularly called ‘the worst cold ever’ – is this related?
However, the hospitalisation rate for symptomatic Covid might be more complex than it looks. In the UKHSA paper it appeared to define hospitalisation ‘with’ Covid to 14 days after the first positive test; if the individual presented to A&E after this 14 day period his or her data was excluded. It is possible that vaccination delays (rather than prevents) disease progression, in which case some of the hospitalisations with a condition that ‘looks like Covid but isn’t’ might in fact be due to a Covid infection that took longer than 14 days to develop to the point where hospitalisation was necessary. In addition, if the vaccinated were more likely to test themselves earlier in the progression of the disease then they might also be more likely to ‘run out of time’ and present themselves after the 14 day period has finished.
There’s another interesting aspect of these data – overall, the unvaccinated appeared to get around 24 hospitalisations per 100,000 of an illness that ‘looked like Covid’ (whether it was Covid or not) whereas the vaccinated appeared to get around 34 hospitalisations per 100,000. By this measure, vaccination is associated with an increased risk of a serious respiratory illness (whether Covid or not).
Again, the single-dosed appear to have the same risk of Covid as the unvaccinated, but increased attendance with looks like Covid but isn’t, and the double-dosed appear to have the ‘worst of both worlds’ – increased rates of attendance both with Covid and with looks like Covid but isn’t.
One more point – comparing Table 4 with Table 3, there appear to be far fewer admissions to A&E with Covid than without Covid. This indicates the current pressures on NHS A&E services are not related to Covid infections but ‘other things’.
The UKHSA data – Secondary uses data
The UKHSA paper also offers data using the NHS ‘secondary uses dataset’ (Table S10). This covers all hospitalisations and offers more granularity on the reasons for the hospitalisation and the level of treatment offered. The authors use a selection of the full dataset, where the admission was for an acute respiratory illness, and for several levels of seriousness.
First up are the data on hospitalisations for admissions for an acute respiratory illness where the individual was discharged the same day.
Two aspects stand out:
- The rate of serious Covid infection that warranted admission into hospital but that was not serious enough for an overnight stay was higher in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated. This suggests that the vaccines increase the risk of being ‘somewhat unwell from Covid’. Note that this isn’t simply ‘infected’ – these individuals were deemed by experts to be sufficiently at risk of their illness to be admitted to hospital, even if they didn’t pass the threshold for an overnight observation/treatment.
- The hospitalisation rate of ‘somewhat serious but not Covid’ acute respiratory illness in the vaccinated was around twice as great as that in the unvaccinated, and even higher in those having only one or two doses of vaccine
This time we see that overall the risk of ‘somewhat serious’ acute respiratory illness (whether due to Covid or not) appears to be similar in the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and that those having taken one or two doses of vaccine (only) appear worst off.
What about a more serious symptomatic infection – perhaps acute respiratory illness requiring several days of hospitalisation and supplementary oxygen?
Here, at last, we appear to see some benefit from the vaccines – the unvaccinated appear to be rather more likely to be hospitalised for a few days following Covid infection (acute respiratory illness requiring supplementary oxygen), and even though they also appear to be less likely to be similarly hospitalised without Covid, this isn’t by so great a margin to remove the protective effect of vaccination.
But yet, I keep returning to the matter of the 14 day limit after the positive test. Individuals typically get to the point where they require supplementary oxygen some time after infection. If the unvaccinated aren’t testing themselves at the point where symptoms start but the vaccinated are, then they’ll be relatively more likely to get to the stage where oxygen is required within that 14 day period. Any delay in symptomatic disease in the vaccinated would only make this effect worse. Is the supposed effectiveness of the vaccines at preventing severe disease simply an artefact arising due to the fact that it takes longer to get to the point where the symptoms are severe, or due to the unvaccinated being more test-averse?
The UKHSA doesn’t report on the basis for the use of a 14 day limit – I’d very much like to see supporting data, or a sensitivity analysis in its paper, comparing rates for 14, 21 and 28 days after the positive test.
Conclusions
The UKHSA has at long last published raw data on hospitalisation rates by vaccine status, for those infected with Covid as well as those that aren’t. The results are very concerning, showing significantly higher A&E admission rates in the vaccinated for reasons other than Covid, and much less difference in admission rates for symptomatic Covid in the vaccinated vs unvaccinated than suggested by the estimates of vaccine effectiveness published by the UKHSA.
What I’ve shown here isn’t proof that the vaccines are causing harm – but it is a huge red-flag that strongly suggests that there might be a serious problem, and certainly indicates that a proper analysis of illness after vaccination needs to be undertaken urgently.
Furthermore, the significant differences in the ‘negative test’ arm of the UKHSA data suggest that the test-negative case-control method is not appropriate, and that a full retrospective matched-cohort study into vaccine effectiveness and safety should be undertaken.
Amanuensis is an ex-academic and senior Government scientist. He blogs at Bartram’s Folly.
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“Why the new John Lewis advert is everything that’s wrong with modern Britain” – The retailer’s home insurance ad is a vision of destruction that’s peak 2021, but you can’t criticise it without being called transphobic’
I’m criticising it, and I haven’t even seen it.
Th emed
Corporate Media Largely Silent as Millions Protest Vaccine Mandates Worldwide
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Corporate Media Largely Silent as Millions Protest Vaccine Mandates Worldwide
Saturday 16th October 1pm
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I’ve just seen the picture from the link, is this when you type ‘go woke go broke’?
I’ve not seen it, hoping I manage to avoid.
The Persil ad is winding me up. It sometimes come on first, before I have had a chance to turn the sound down, and starts with some smug wanker saying “we all want change”. Er. no, we don’t, not the kind of change you’re pushing (some kind of eco-friendly guff).
What I find interesting and sinister and worrying about this is not the concept of a brand polishing its green credentials (real or fake) in order to sell more product, but the nudging nature of the “we all want change” message. They are not saying “if you’re worried about the environment, you can buy our products with a clear conscience becase x, y or z…”. They are saying that you should, must be wanting this kind of change, and if you don’t you’re abnormal, what’s wrong with you, you heartless bastard. They are trying to create opinion, not react to it. Why would Persil want to do that?
I don’t watch what used to be called Terrestrial TV at all but do spend a lot of time on YouTube.
I realise that their business model depends on advertising so usually allow some to run their full length except for the 30-40% that try to preach Global Warming or Inclusivity at me, those I click off at the earliest opportunity ie 4 seconds.
o/t but spooky. Last week I did a minor DIY job in my living room. A neighbour popped and I mentioned (perhaps twice) using my Bosch Power Drill for the first time in 10 years.
For several days thereafter my Amazon suggestion feed featured, guess what?
Bosch Power Drills.
I posted something online recently about epilepsy.
Yesterday I received some promotional mail – proper mail, via the postman – from Epilepsy Action.
You raised the topic online (anonymously?) for all to see. I was just talking in the same room as my phone.
It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you….
How to Keep the NSA From Spying Through Your Webcam
Of Course Your Phone Is Listening To You
Yep, happens a lot! And adverts that pop up around the screen! I don’t have any spying devices like Alexa, and anything like it on my device or main screen is disabled. Makes you wonder…
A boat salesman told me of something similar that happened to him. He was outside his parents home saying goodbye after a visit, and they mentioned that they were going to look at a motorhome for sale (an unusual Spanish brand) and when he got home and logged onto his work laptop an advert for that very brand popped up. It really shook him that surveillance of our lives is that deep.
Oddly enough pre Covid someone who works for a firm that supplies fittings for luxury yachts told me that while all her work is done in-house on the company computers and phones her own private phone is plagued with similar adverts.
Presumably Working From Home has only made this more prevalent.
Well, it used to be because Persil washed whiter, but presumably that message is now unacceptable owing to its appalling colour-wokeness.
That was the claim of most detergent makers for decades, woke must have given their marketing people nightmares.
The Persil box currently next to my washing machine just makes claims about how much less I need to use, that it uses 27% less packaging (yes I just looked) and uses the word ‘clean’ instead of white.
My washing product claims to be good on coloureds.
That’s incorrect – it should be good on blacks if it is using the correct terminology!
“we all want change”
> nope they’re trying to persuade you everyone else (when infact most are not fussed at all, and opposed when presented with the bill) want to change.
It’s astroturf.
Odd that most adverts don’t seem to be selling a product anymore, more a woke idea piggybacked ONTO the advert budget
Odd, exactly. Almost as if the people making the ads and those paying for them are following an agenda that is beyond just their commercial interests.
“we all want change” – vomit inducing on so many levels.
Frankly I’m more concerned about the brain-dead, traitorous zombie apocalypse combined with our societies morphing into authoritarian regimes ran by sociopaths right now. Nut jobs being offended by certain words or terminology is not exactly on my list of priorities tbh, sorry not sorry! Morning btw!
Isn’t it because the nut jobs are being offended and making such a fuss that the authoritarian regime is able to take hold?
Personally anyway, between the ‘woke’ crap, the climate change crap and the ‘vaccines/vax passport’ crap, I would put most of my energies into opposing the latter just now as the governments are tightening the screws faster and more severely on this issue. It presumably depends also on your individual predicament and which country you’re in too. I don’t think a huge % of people in New South Wales are gonna be overly concerned with global warming at this point in time, for example.
I hadn’t planned for it to be part of my bedtime routine! Good morning!
Presumably because you aren’t one of the people being persecuted, sacked or prosecuted for “offending” said nutjobs, or a close fiend or family member of same.
Yet.
I have seen it, by chance. I cannot decide what is worse – child rampaging around a house destroying things, while other family members stand by passively; or the fact that he is clearly (and badly) dressed in a drag-like way that is almost a parody.
If John Lewis thinks this would encourage me to buy their product or service, they’d better think again.
I hadn’t realised that JL does insurance, but now I know I will never consider their product. Like Waitrose, their sister, they are generally overpriced and no-one I know has ever taken up their offer of “never being beaten on price”; it is easier to walk away.
They don’t, it is effectively a white label for Covea just as Sainsburys does not “do” banking….what these Insurers like is all the addresses and other “metrics”, personal details ….
I’m pretty sure only the retired can afford to shop there regularly, so I think these ads will backfire quite heavily.
Wokeness is a sign the business has lost touch with it’s customers and the board ir BORED of running it.
i.e. short the shares if you can.
JL’s products are being made in China more often than not & finding anything made anywhere but on their site is becoming more & more difficult.
Having said that I did because I needed some new pjs & had been sent a JL gift card as a pressie discovered a lovely GB owned company who manufacture their products in India. So that was a bit of serendipity. I subsequently bought directly from them
It was thoroughly dissected (ripped to shreds) on GB News last night, with even the usual suspects objecting to the depiction of female passivity.
You don’t want to, I promise you!
France’s Senate rejects Covid vaccine mandates/passports with an overwhelming majority
Are you sure? They rejected compulsory vaccination (i.e. you must by law be jabbed), not vaccine passports, as far as I can see.
I once asked a traffic cop whether roadworks signs reading ‘speed limits mandatory’ implies that other speed limits are not mandatory
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He replied that as there were road workers in the vicinity 40mph meant 40mph and that Police Offucers would not use their discretion in the usual way.
“He replied that as there were road workers in the vicinity 40mph meant 40mph and that Police Offucers would not use their discretion in the usual way.“
It’s all for your collective Safety, citizen.
I’m still trying to get to the bottom of this – it looks like compulsory jabs to me; surely the passports have been in use for months.
I know. It needs clarification. We need you French guys to come and give us the low down!
So does that mean all the healthcare staff they sacked, among other professions effected, will get their jobs back? Yes on Twitter they’re mentioning the vax pass too but that can’t be right. All the usual BS discriminatory restrictions are still to remain in place presumably…?
David Starkey: When history becomes propaganda you get bad history
Interesting discussion of one of the key cultural issues of today, the abuse of history for propaganda by minority identity lobbies – the modern cultural pestilence on our nation..
“We are requiring black Britons to look at history throughout the ages almost to be colourblind to it….to derive lessons from history that have got nothing to do with race, that tell us other stories, other parables, ….. but they haven’t got a stake in it.”
Here is the internalised poison of the identity lobbies perfectly demonstrated.
If black Britons’ only stake in British history is as blacks, then they are not meaningfully British. If they are British, then the history of Britain is important to them whether or not their particular ancestors played a part in it or not. (Fwiw, my personal suspicion is that black kids would be no more and no less interested in the doings of the Tudors than any other kids their age – until they are told by manipulative identity lobby sleazebags that they mustn’t be interested because they should only be interested in black history). If their antecedents’ role is as part of a recent mass immigration, so be it. Accept it, and move on, don’t try to distort and warp history into something that suits some lobbyists’ idea of a more politically useful reality than the one we live in.
On T’internet is a London Underground map repurposed for ‘Black History Month’.
Each of the 270 stations had been renamed after an individual presumably of some significance to Black History.
Scanning the Northern and Piccadilly lines hoping to locate MLK, Rosa Parks or Dianne Abbot among the myriad unknowns I would imagine a Black youngster would be just as nonplussed.
When’s white history month btw? And did enough survive the great dying (caused by self isolation) for a red history month?
When the Rolling Stones cancel their own Brown Sugar (Roundup) what hope is there for ‘Three Wheels On My Wagon’?
I’m going to have to leave all the Leadbelly songs I know out of my evening jam session ….
My ancestors were serfs in feudal Essex for centuries. An on-line definition:
I think this is probably true of the majority of Brits. Do you think we should seek recogition and reparation and a rewriting of history?
“If you can’t beat them join them” seems an attractive prospect, except that they’ve already mostly got that one covered.
There is no lobby group devoted to seeking power and patronage by claiming to protect your interests in this regard, and indeed it would be illegal for you to form or operate one.
Of course, such an identity lobby would not further the goals of the radical left, which has worked hand in hand with the political correctness lobbies during their “long march through the institutions”, and thus would never receive the favourable media coverage, academic, arts and self-serving “celebrity” flattering, and political protection that the “minority” lobbies benefit from.
It was William The Conqueror who abolished slavery in England, probably to make it easier to define serfdom as the lowest rung on the new feudal ladder.
Definitely the enclosures were a disgrace (and possibly the Normans grabbing a lot of land after theitr conquest and wasting the North). I would like to see a return of common land or some form of distributism.
Didn’t Stalin do that, ‘Collectivisation’?
Killed millions in the Ukraine, I think. Nasty blighter (even if he did give rise to a hilarious recent film that the humourless Russian regime banned).
Joe Rogan ‘absolutely eviscerated’ CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Kurtz
This is a hilarious and extremely useful US story, whereby the US leftist msm were outraged at Joe Rogan taking ivermectin (and other drugs) and getting better, and mocked him for taking a “horse deworming drug”. But Rogan is too big for them to smear, bully and cancel, in the way they have successfully done to most dissenters, and it has backfired on them badly.
One amusing feature has been both Gupta in the original podcast and the Fox commentators here, carefully skating around the real reason why CNN and the leftist US msm generally (and the US feds) lied about ivermectin – because there is evidence it works and they cannot afford to have an effective off-patent drug interfering with their coercive masking and “vaccination” policies.
And here’s JP’s sharp satire on the incident:
Hateful Joe Rogan Is Spreading Misinformation and Must Be Stopped!
As I’ve said before, one of the strangest things the “left” has done yet, collaborating with the corrupt and blood-stained multinationals in the pharmaceutical industry.
Only because you think of the goals of “the left” as primarily those of the dinosaurian pre-1970s left, which was largely aimed at helping the working classes materially and socially and was quite socially conservative otherwise, and saw wealth and corporate power as problems. They were defeated by the mid-late C20th, and replaced by the socially radical Blairite left. The dominant modern strand of the radical left is “intensely relaxed” about such things, and their concern is to gain power for themselves (for the Greater Good, of course) and to remove obstacles to their radical social agendas by whatever means work.
They aren’t even really “left”, they transcend politics. They are a technocratic vanguard, the distillation of raw power.
They only “transcend politics” because of the complete triumph of leftist ideology within the US sphere elites. And of course lots of elites opportunistically adhere to the dominant dogma because of the advantages in doing so.
But the main features of the woke global elite – internationalism, hatred of nationality and of established alternate authorities that resist their power to impose radical social change, and political correctness have always been leftist causes.
But it hasn’t triumphed. At best it is a dishonest parody, at worst what’s triumphed is Tiberian debauchery, decadence, tyrrany. There are no leftist idealists up there, only people of weak or manipulative character. Having no principles doesn’t make you a “leftist”.
“World Peace” internationalism is a smokescreen. That boat sailed long ago. They believe in world domination. Consequently, they are now happy to cynically stoke divisions, to pit groups against eachother. They have dropped all pretence.
Radical social change is also a smokescreen in so far as the means justify the ends They aren’t interested in “leftist” outcomes, they are only interested in power and eugenics. They want you either profitable, or better still, dead. They will achieve this with whatever means are at their disposal. They will even promote Nazism (as in Ukraine) or Islamic fundamentalism if needs be. Scottish nationalism? No problem. Welsh nationalism? No problem.
Political correctness is just a new fangled term for censorship or “wrongthink”. It has No political stripe. It is the tool of authoritarians, another means to the end, that end being that only they matter.
I believe we are returning to the age prior to democratic political narrative. Prior to “left” vs. “right”. The age when people saw only two things: morality and naked power, the age when Caesars and warlords stalked the land.
More akin to a new form of imperialism – an evil empire if you like.
“Intensely relaxed”.
Of course, I was forgetting. And the working poor have mostly been bottom of the pile over the years. Working class men, of course, did not have a vote in the early 20th century, but this tends to be forgotten by people who talk about suffragettes.
Still denying Invermectin after 18 months, did Mr Trump ever champion it?
Not sure if Trump championed ivermectin (that was how hydroxychloroquine ended up on the elite shit-list forever). But any effective drug therapy threatened the spurious “emergency” basis for all the panicker policies, and especially the authorisation for “vaccination”..
Rogan Vs Gupta Meme Supercut
“Lockdowns cause deaths in poor countries”.(Prospect)
And by the same token, Tanzania’s resistance to this madness has saved lives. People who really care about black lives would do better to speak out against lockdowns than make fatuous gestures like smashing statues in one of the least racist countries in the world.
And I say it again, there has not been enough mention of Belarus. No lockdowns there, no ban on spectator sport, and no disaster. There was no big difference in their all cause mortality up to March compared to their neighbours, and this surely disproves the need for the sort of damaging lockdowns and related measures we have seen in many European countries – measures that have contributed to possibly millions of deaths in the third world, for me one of the biggest scandals of this shambles.
It has always been a problem for lockdown supporters that both Uber Liberal Sweden and neo facist, post Communist, one party, one man rule Belarus have consistently adopted the same non lockdown policy with much the same positive result as has been pointed out here at LS and elsewhere again and again for at least 18 months.
Belarus incidentally is a ‘poor country’.
The Amish also did nothing.
They got illnesses, nothing out of the ordinary though, they stayed at home and avoided hospitals at all cost, and they had no excess deaths and no Delta impact at all.
See Sheryl Atkissson.
“Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali ‘popes’ “.
He has long been a hero of mine for drawing attention to the persecution that many Christians face, even in Britain. Sadly, the stance of too many Christian leaders reminds me of that of Reverend Lovejoy in The Simpsons – “Once something has been approved by the government it is no longer immoral”. I think he has been an exception to this. I would suggest that it is a prerequisite for Christian leaders to prioritise Christian teaching over conforming to “woke” orthodoxy and fashionable cultural trends if the church is to grow.
And the lack of resistance of many Christian leaders to the lockdowns which have hit the poor so hard, and to the closure of churches last year was particularly disappointing.
As I say, there have been exceptions, including at our anti-lockdown church, but too many have preferred just to swim with the tide, and even gone further than necessary during this shambles.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing.
From the Roundup ‘Waterstones slammed for selectively censoring books on feminism’.
This Daily Mail item has generated just two reader comments which perhaps reflects the lack of public interest in this non-issue.
“The comments below have been moderated”
This basically means they’ve had thousands of comments, all along the same outraged lines, but they can’t publish them because it’s the truth. Meta censorship.
Yep, I’ve noticed this. Not that I read the Fail much these days but there was an article last week (can’t remember which one) that should have generated thousands of comments but again only two non-dissenting were allowed. Knowing that the majority of readers heavily oppose much of what is happening right now, the Fail is increasingly moderating the comments.
Why is the major high street source of books actively and systematically skewing its sales politically a “non-issue”?
Granted, most booksales are online now, but nevertheless viewing such things as not important enough to worry about is probably a large part of how the wokeists became so socially and culturally dominant, prior to becoming politically dominant in the last couple of decades.
These things do matter, even if they appear minor.
Savij Jabbid wants fireworks, does he?
I can think of a few places to stick them.
Sadiq Khan has cancelled the NYE Trafalgar Square fireworks ‘because Covid ‘ again.
No great loss, they’ve only been going since the millennium.
Before that it was a genuinely spontaneous event with large crowds gathering just for each others company but they ruined it in the 1970s by turning off the fountains as though there was something wrong with teenagers getting pissed up on canned lager before a soggy walk home.
But he is looking forward to the Diwali celebrations across the country including those in Trafalgar Square! Including fireworks.
Diwali in Trafalgar Square apparently attracts 35,000 each year. Let’s hope they all have a jolly good time.
Will he cancel Chinese New Year?
Queen Elizabeth II arriving at the opening ceremony of the sixth session of the Senedd, Cardiff. October 14 2021.
Meanwhile, a reminder of the rules in Wales:
What is the legal requirement?Face coverings must be worn in all indoor public places, and public transport, including taxis. Source: https://gov.wales/face-coverings-guidance-public#section-52202
One rule for us… etc.
Incidentally, that other unmasked woman is the person who would not allow that Tory from casting his vote, which would have halted the Welsh vaxxpass agenda in its tracks.
Unless they had another vote to try and get the “right” answer. (Now what does that remind me of!).
Technically the Queen is exempt as all of the legislation is made in her name, Regina v Regina?
I beg to differ
These days it isn’t only women who have a regina
From the Roundup ‘record 5.7 million people in England awaiting hospital treatment’.
Strange that I have received two physiotherapy referrals (one attended, one awaiting) within 4 weeks of those referrals being made.
As mentioned a while back this may be because those referrals came from Consultants within the main regional hospital rather than my GP.
Perhaps the situation will change for the worse when it comes to clinical visits rather than office meetings.
I just wish I could get through to my GP on the phone …
To be fair my GP Surgery is very good though of the 7 options given when phoning them: ‘to talk to your GP, or ask them to call you, press 2’ is not included.
I don’t know about you but I’m starting to enjoy all of this
I have developed a quiet sense of fulfilment from watching really really stupid people being fucked about by cunts
The highlight this week was the MP’s who committed genocide and crimes against humanity publishing a report that awarded themselves a clean bill of health. The Covidians who responded to the report in the MSM were of the opinion that they were not punished enough and if they had been punished more it would have been oh so much better
During the past twenty months The Pig Dictator has used every resource available to him to whip up the hysteria and fear. Now the hysterics are starting to turn on the cult leader and blame him for the deaths that occurred because ‘lock down’ didn’t arrive sooner
It would be somewhat ironic if this winter the cultists dragged their leader into the street and did unto him because of something he cynically invented in the first place
How do you unhysteric the hysterics? (Yes I know it’s not a proper word)
Anyway, whilst conducting my research I have discovered that during our last civil war the fish and chip shops closed early at 6pm each evening. It is not clear what the situation was with Indian Takeaways so I have ordered copies of the VAT returns from Kew and will report back
I have developed a quiet sense of fulfilment from watching really really stupid people being fucked about by cunts
Same here.
As the meme said: Don’t tell me you did your research before you got the vaccine. You ARE the research.
Johns Hopkins uploads its 2001 ‘Dark Winter’ simulation scenario of a bio-attack on America.
Bill Gates said on C-Span2 June 23, 2020:
“We will have to prepare for the next one. And I say it will get their attention this time.”
He said it with a Duper’s Delight smirk, the c**t.
I see y’all still don’t understand how the games played in the new pseudo commie technocracy. They aren’t interested in debate, truth or facts, only their own select “facts” tailored to meet the agenda.
Why’d ya think they advocate “safe places” it means safe from opposing beliefs/opinions? Sell your freedom for safety & you end up with totalitarianism. We are now in a technocratic state. Democracy (for what it was worth) is dead!
Keeping you safe is the new terror campaign!
Joe Biden’s new strategy: turning himself into a walking Babylon Bee headline.
Interesting to see how much worse Scotland seems to be doing with mass “vaccination” than without it last year. And “covid” is not the biggest contributor to excess death, by a long way.
“By some margin this was the highest mortality rate of Week 40, in all the history back to 1974.”
According to the regime Official Truth outlet, Scotland has now “vaccinated” 85% of their 16+ population, and given at least a first dose to 91%.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58548727
Panicking, locking down and wasting vast fortunes on foolish mass “vaccination” is working out really well for them, it seems.
And we can also see the catastrophic impact of the “worst pandemic in human history” last summer: