The ONS announced on Friday that there were 38,611 deaths registered in England in June, which is 9.1% more than in May, and 0.8% more than the five-year average. However, the increase is relative to an exceptionally low value the month before. What about the age-standardised mortality rate (which is the best overall measure)?
In June, the age-standardised mortality rate was 12.5% higher than in May, but was still 6.1% lower than the five-year average. It was also the second-lowest figure on record for that month. (The only lower figure was observed in June of 2019.)
This means that England’s age-standardised mortality rate has been below the five-year average for four consecutive months. In other words, we’ve had four months in a row of “negative excess mortality”.
This chart from the ONS shows the age-standardised mortality rate for the first six months of the year, each year, going back to 2001:
Although 2021’s figure was higher than the figure for 2019, it was 3.6% lower than the figure for 2015 and 2.4% lower than the figure for 2018. This means that – despite higher-than-expected mortality in the winter – the overall level of mortality in the first half of 2021 was actually lower than three years before.
The past four months have “cancelled out” more than 85% of the age-adjusted excess mortality observed in January and February. Unsurprisingly, COVID-19 was not among the leading causes of death in June. All in all, the first half of 2021 has been pretty normal with respect to the average level of mortality.
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It certainly is huge, and surely this revelation will knock the Harris campaign for six, possibly even encouraging more people to come forward and back up this person’s sworn claims. Of course it’ll be a case of deny, deny, deny, from her, much like the migrants eating cats thing. Heads need to roll at ABC too. More here;
”The introductory material in the affidavit says that the employee is a technical and administrative worker who is not endorsing Trump. He (or she) simply wants what all Americans want—a fair debate allowing Americans to hear what the candidates have to say on the issues that matter most. The key substantive allegations (which currently have no verification other than this sworn testimony) are as follows:
The important people at ABC involved in the debate were known to be biased, which worried employees:
In fact, nothing was fair.
ABC allegedly agreed to Kamala’s demands for accommodations so that she would not appear at a visual disadvantage compared to Trump (accommodations that our geo-political opponents such as Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-un won’t be making):
The affidavit closes by saying, among other things, that the affiant “sent a certified letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, dated September 9th, 2024, to establish a record that the correspondence was sent before the debate commenced.” And—what should worry ABC and Kamala’s campaign—the affiant claims to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/an_abc_employee_s_sworn_affidavit_claims_abc_cheated_to_help_kamala_win.html
Can we now really start to imagine ‘what can be, unburdened by what has been’?
If these revelations stand up, are evidenced, and, on the face of it, why would they not, that should be the election done and dusted.
There seems to be a lot of dismay and astonishment worldwide that these are the two best candidates the U.S.A. can put up.
It is a bit tricky to sustain that criticism in this country, given what we are currently enduring from Sir Keir Rodney Starmer.
Having someone else pay for your spectacles and dress your wife is, at best, bizarre. Ms Harris would no doubt describe it as ‘weird’, unburdened as our PM has been by the tab for spectacles and feminine fashion items.
Hoping, looking on the upside, these revelations, if unimpeachable, might at least contribute to a raising of standards within the fourth estate…….or not really………
Name “better” candidates/politicians already in office, than Trump, and explain what makes them “better”.
I think Trump was an effective U.S. President, but his use of Twitter discredited his office and then his reaction to a novel common cold coronavirus epidemic sunk him.
Trump himself is a fan of Greg Abbott in Texas. Abbott lacks charisma but has been effective; good policy track record.
‘Texas is the headquarters of headquarters, with 52 Fortune 500 companies calling Texas home
House Bill 5 gives local jurisdictions the economic tools they need to attract businesses to come to Texas or grow their operations within Texas.
Texas has good education and a highly skilled workforce.
Newly created Texas Business Courts, and the state’s robust infrastructure offers more road miles and airports than any other state.
Abbott signed off he largest property tax cut in Texas history, putting $18 billion back into the pockets of Texans.
Thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and Department of Public Safety troopers work around the clock to secure the border in the Biden-Harris Administration’s absence.’
Ron DeSantis
‘Though his presidential candidacy never really took off, it should have.
The Republican party dismissed DeSantis for two reasons: Trump’s chokehold on the GOP and the awkwardness DeSantis displayed during debates. Trump’s not much better in debates, but he wasn’t there.’
DeSantis was a lion during covid, still is, and has an excellent policy track record.
‘When DeSantis took office in 2018, Florida had 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. Today, Republicans hold a more-than 850,000 voter lead in the state…….
Florida has no income tax, and just last week, he signed additional tax relief for corporations. He touts what he calls pro-family and anti-woke policies on education that families love. Together, these have boosted Florida’s growth and economy.
For the second year in a row, U.S. News has ranked Florida No. 1 in education, specifically higher education.
DeSantis is known for publicly and repeatedly backing law enforcement.
Florida’s economy is a huge draw. Its private sector job growth rate increased in January at double the national rate and Florida’s workforce grew by 2.2 percent (+243,000) − faster than the national over-the-year rate. Democrat governors refuse to implement policies like lower taxes or ideas that promote job growth because they can’t fathom such ideas actually work.
The Parental Rights in Education Act required district school boards to adopt procedures that reinforced parental rights but also banned teaching about sexual identity to younger students. Teachers can discuss LGBTQ issues outside of formal instruction. Both DeSantis’ office and LGBTQ+ allies dubbed the settlement a win.’
Don’t mention it……
Don’t know much about Abbott but agree on De Santis and Trump being poor on “Covid”. I think politicians discredit themselves and their office by pursuing policies that are against the interests of their citizens, not by being boorish on social media.
Politicians yes but Trump was Head of State.
Yeah, so is our King. Prefer the Donald to KC3 every day of the week.
The despicable Macron is head of state – he wanted to persecute his own citizens.
Indeed. King Charles does himself no favours in prognosticating on things that should not concern him. Macron has made himself look a fool. Trump, I’m afraid, did exactly the same. These posturing popinjays divide when their role should be to unite.
Sorry I don’t think you are getting my point. Perhaps I didn’t make it clear enough. I don’t care if someone makes themselves “look like a fool”. It’s their acts and their effect on my life that matter to me. Trump failed on “covid” but was generally sound, IMO, though he did fail to build his wall (not entirely his fault). KC3 and Macron are actively pursuing objectives that harm me and my family, and the countries they are supposed to be serving. Different order of magnitude.
My point is that, by discrediting themselves one way or another, they remove the possibility of doing any more good things because they become unpopular and are voted out of office or, in extreme circumstances, have their heads cut off, are shot at.
And I wish that Trump, in particular, had stayed off Twitter because he would have then stood a much better chance of being re-elected.
I guess that is a plausible argument though you are assuming that Trump’s tweets had a net negative effect – that seems like a huge assumption to me. For everyone who found them offensive or whatever there may have been others who found them appealing. Didn’t he galvanise a section of the electorate that may otherwise not have voted?
I quite like Milei’s style but let’s see what he actually achieves.
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Mark Steyn’s take on the latest assassination attempt on Trump;
”In the last two months, Trump has been lucky twice. There are another two months to go: can he be lucky thrice? Four times?
If I were Trump I wouldn’t want these guys anywhere near me – the official government protection, that is. The law-&-order types on the right have been ballyhooing the quick thinking of one individual agent on the ground – which is fine and dandy, but conveniently absolves the “bureaucracy” of its failure to provide sufficient protection, even after he’s already been shot and an American citizen has died. Trump is one of the comparatively few presidents who has taken a bullet for his country, which is more than even Tim Walz can claim, but nobody who matters is interested. The court eunuchs at ABC News couldn’t be bothered with a question on this summer’s near-assassination, but they did make room for a question about the rental practices of Donald Trump’s father over half-a-century ago.
The Deep State is telling us they will not permit Donald Trump to take office again.”
https://www.steynonline.com/14649/they-want-him-dead
The culprit sounds exactly like how you’d expect him to be;
”Wow. Attempted Trump Assassin Ryan Routh wrote a book on the Ukraine war. In the book he tells Iran to assassinate Trump while praising John Kerry for the Iran Deal. He also calls Trump an idiot and says he “perpetrated” Jan. 6th.
He sounds like a mainstream media addict.”
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1835531912787439753
Routh is a petty criminal and, no doubt, as mad as a hatter.
‘The North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections has records of Routh dating back to 2002.
In 2002, he barricaded himself inside a Greensboro business with a gun, according to the News & Record.
In 2003, he was sentenced for driving without a license, carrying a concealed weapon, and a hit-and-run.
In 2010, he was convicted of possessing stolen goods.
Routh received probation for all these charges, per the Department of Adult Corrections website.’
https://www.wral.com/story/suspect-linked-to-trump-assassination-attempt-has-ties-to-north-carolina-a-t/21626901/
‘The X account appearing to belong to Routh also said that Trump was his “choice” in 2016, before completely backtracking during the 2020 election.’
In 2020, during the presidential primary, the X account said: “I was not supporting Bernie, but now I am; as sleepy Joe stands for nothing; no plans, no ideas, just as limp as hillary. Bernie…….give them hell…..fight to the death…”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ryan-routh-armed-man-arrested-030249917.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC2enEVeb_s2JjxU63x7twZ8GM89GxpK4wSm0utB7P7XRXe4jHkrqWw0HVQZKVOE09jRBa2Zj0I-tA3_ULJkSp54ps80YblqgG6p6b1imO2b_-kXbnadvw8KZB7aCdufvcep1ZO-1e_7Z3xn57BM_1LNnEeGG6vbCmIol0nP0HSA
Yes another looney tunes obsessive oddball. My first thought was CIA because there are no such things as coincidences anymore, not in the world we live in. What’s great nowadays though, is that citizen sleuths are all over stories like this, tracking down and investigating people’s online activity before the FBI can scrub all records;
”BREAKING: The New York Times interviewed alleged Donald Trump ass*ss*n Ryan Routh in 2023 about his plans to recruit Afghan soldiers and illegally transport them to fight in Ukraine.”
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1835458832522268874
This guy shares some intriguing stuff that’s been uncovered about our prime suspect and his contacts;
”Is this evidence the Trump assassin was a CIA asset?
It’s still early, don’t jump to any conclusions.
I’m just out here doing the FBIs job for them because we all know Chris Ray busy prepping the cover up as we speak.”
https://x.com/Cancelcloco/status/1835513228560114015
I wouldn’t be surprised if this latest assassination attempt turned out to be a false flag.
The last one was almost certainly genuine. This one? AK47 from 400 yds? Muh.
By the trump campaign team.
Playing to his base.
Neither of them were genuine.
https://x.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1835209853838541146
Best fact-checking ever
Is the EU a fiendish LGBTQ plot? That’s what Moldova’s socialists think
Moldova could very easily become part of the Russian Union State that already comprises Russia, Belarus, Crimea and East Ukraine.
‘In remarks to the Russian state-owned RIA Novosti news agency on December 1, Kalinin claimed, without providing any details or proof, that he was assembling a 20,000-strong international unit to fight in Ukraine and then in Moldova against government forces there.’
https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-kalinin-russia-kremlin-depose-president-sandu/32735981.html
Kalinin is not without support within Moldova
‘Thousands of people took part in a procession and the March for Family in support of traditional values. The event was organized by the Party of Socialists, led by former president Igor Dodon………According to the organizers, the event was intended to be a response to the sodomites’ march, which was to take place on Sunday, with the participation of Western ambassadors……..
Topics related to the LGBT community have been used for years by the Russian propaganda (or by ultraconservatives influenced by it or with similar ideas, especially representatives of the Metropolitan Bishopric of Moldova, subordinate to the Russian Patriarchy) in its attempts to discredit the European Union and pro-European governments in Chisinau.
The EU is presented as “Gayropa”, a space in antithesis to that of traditional, Christian values, which Russia allegedly represents; a false equivalence is drawn between homosexuality and pedophilia, to convince the public that the goal is to legalize pedophilia; the idea of an “LGBT agenda” that the EU would try to impose is induced; finally, an attempt is made to identify human rights, which represent a fundamental value of the European community, with the promotion and encouragement of non-traditional sexual relations.’
https://www.veridica.ro/en/fake-news-disinformation-propaganda/fake-news-the-west-imposes-an-anti-family-ideology-on-the-republic-of-moldova
The domino theory is back……or not really…..
‘Are we ready to spend trillions of dollars, given our current debt crisis? Will the American public support it and, if so, for how long?’
Brandon Temple, Ph.D., Air Force Special Warfare Officer
If the revelations regarding Democratic Party ‘fixing’ of the ABC Presidential debate stand up, Mr Trump’s chances look good.
But will anyone really know what he will do, particularly regarding Ukraine, until after he is elected?
Can the EU co-exist with a totalitarian fascist and expansionist Imperial Russian Union State Superpower of 250 million people just across the border?
No.
Can the EU co-exist with a totalitarian fascist and expansionist Imperial Russian Union State Superpower of 250 million people just across the border?
My dictionary defines fascism as a “system of extreme right-wing or authoritarian views”, and authoritarian as “favouring obedience to authority as opposed to individual liberty”.
Now state which western government does not fulfil these definitions? Which, oh so lauded, western democracy asked its population whether they agreed to lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations, net zero, LGBTQ, unlimited immigration, restrictions on free speech or war against Russia? Who was ever asked?
Who voted for Ursula von der Leyen, who now rules over the EU and defines its wide-ranging mandates and future actions? Who voted for Kaja Kallas, the EU’s future chief diplomat with her unbounded hatred against Russia (a good diplomat will not hate anybody)? Who voted for anyone in the European Commission, all enjoying their fat, tax-free salaries and deciding on what to torment us with next?
So do not talk about Russia being a fascist state. If you want to hear a politician talking in a demonstrably sensible, intelligent manner, discussing how huge areas under his control can be benefited by allocating them greater resources, providing improved living conditions for the citizens living there, adding necessary power stations in under-developed areas, citing one positive improvement after another, listen to Vladimir Putin’s speech given two weeks ago at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUiW8eqf5c).
Nobody in the west cares one iota about Ukraine. Its soldiers are being slaughtered by superior forces; press gangs roam Ukrainian streets, dragging unwilling men of all ages into vans to be sent straight off to the front; millions of the lucky ones left the country a long time ago, the remaining ones are condemned to be left without electrical power during the extremely cold upcoming winter.
All the West wants is for the fight to continue, at no cost to their armies as both Lindsay Graham and David Cameron publicly highlighted (the war is good value in attempting to remove Putin at no cost to our manpower), supplying arms and finances to a totally unpopular and corrupt regime, with the order to fight to the last Ukrainian.
And now all these delightful belligerents are gambling on bringing on WWIII by permitting Ukraine to fire long-distance missiles into Russia. And who was asked whether they agreed with that in your non-fascist western democracies?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/14/graham-brady-kingmaker-extract-boris-johnson-liz-truss/
Sir Graham Brady’s memoirs are interesting:
‘On Thurs March 19 2020, the government pushed through emergency legislation…without a vote….the first of many moments when the absence of a functioning opposition was felt. Surely Sir Keir Starmer should have wanted to ensure parliamentary oversight of the government during a crisis.’
The government knew mid May 2020 that covid was only really a problem (like all common cold viruses) for vulnerable groups, the aged, infirm and the obese:
Mid May 2020 Johnson to Brady: ‘It’s people like us who get it really bad….I was a fatty, seventeen and a half stone when I went into hospital…’
We discover that, later in May, amidst chaotic government: ‘I wondered if Boris was losing it……’ that senior figures in the Government knew they had made a massive error of judgement in hiding behind Whitty and Vallance:
Sunak: ‘…it’s all going wrong because it was a mistake to put the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Officer in the press conference every day….We thought it would give us cover but now we can’t do anything sensible without them denouncing it as a risk….’
What I would like to know is who persuaded Whitty and Vallance into a volte face on lockdowns and the utility of masks.
Was it the Health Secretary….or was it the leader of the opposition?
Oh! We have a massively expensive inquiry that is supposed to be finding out stuff like that…….
Oh, don’t worry about the enquiry – the good Baroness will be well briefed about what “her” conclusions will be!
There ain’t nothing like a dame
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13852933/covid-strain-xec-new-cases-coronavirus.html
Here we go, here we go, here we go, oh!!!
The comments on there are a good read… lots of sensible sounding people
We have two black UK politicians seeking to outdo each other with their stupidity, Lammy and Cleverley. These two first class muppets are a danger to the whole world. Lammy in particular seems determined to start a nuclear war. If he succeeds he’ll be glad he’s got his running shoes on.
Unbelievable.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/breaking-lammys-loose-talk-endangers-us-all/
“14 small boats with 801 migrants crossed English Channel on Saturday”
But of course ZERO small boats with Hostile Criminal Aliens have ever crossed the English Channel by themselves. There is no part of their criminal invasion that is “perilous”, except for those thrown overboard by the traffickers.
They have all just launched from French beaches, then escorted by the French, then collected and brought across the Channel by the British.
As former Queen’s Chaplain Reverend Gavin Ashenden said, the whole asylum seekers programme is “Political Deceit”.