Proof at Last That Excess Deaths are Caused by Covid Vaccines
An article published by Sage, one of the top five academic publishers, has just been released, not just noting the curious phenomenon of excess mortality and how it happens to correlate with the COVID-19 vaccination programme, but pretty much proving that the jab is involved, by explaining that governments already admit to COVID-19 vaccine deaths, but also – and more satisfyingly – ruling out the typical alternative explanations of COVID-19 itself and the lockdowns via an ecological study focused on four Australian regions.
This is my Australian excess deaths paper I’ve mentioned a few times, kind of inspired by the curious words of officials in 2021 about Australian hospitals being full, even in areas largely untouched by COVID-19, and later data indicating that the jab is causing a heap of cardiovascular issues and other adverse effects here.
There are basically two arguments in the article, one quick and cheap, the other far more satisfying. The short argument is that since health officials have admitted to COVID-19 vaccine deaths – deaths which were of course unexpected and premature – it is obvious that the vaccines are contributing to our excess mortality problem. This is indisputable. We can argue over the amount. The bigger argument is my makeshift ecological study.
Four of Australia’s states and territories are the focus here. They all experienced excess deaths during the pandemic. I noticed that, no doubt partly because of the country’s relative isolation and natural oceanic borders, in the regions of Queensland, Western Australia (WA), South Australia and the Northern Territory (NT), deaths from COVID-19 only became a (relatively) big deal from 2022 onwards. For example, there were no COVID-19 deaths in the NT in 2020, the crucial pandemic year before the vaccines arrived, and a whopping two COVID-19 deaths in 2021, comprising a very small proportion of overall excess deaths, with double digit COVID-19 deaths in the following years (see table below). WA even saw COVID-19 deaths decrease from 2020 to zero in 2021, before shooting up in 2022, when everyone was supposed to be ‘protected’ by the vaccines. Weird, huh?
Also for these four regions, unlike the situation in Sydney and Melbourne, any lockdowns tended to be very short and still allowed for medical appointments. Interestingly, like the rest of the country, pretty much everyone received their COVID-19 vaccines in 2021. Remember all those studies on excess mortality, with some (including my own on Europe) wondering if the jab might be playing a role? Those who find that possibility too unpalatable tend to point the finger at COVID-19 itself or the lockdowns. Blaming COVID-19 is risky because we would have to have been undercounting COVID-19 deaths, by a lot, when the evidence indicates the opposite, that COVID-19 deaths have been hyped up, partly because it was very common practice to call any death around a positive case a ‘COVID-19 death’ (also see our FOI request on whether a COVID-19 death occurred in a jabbed or unjabbed person). And blaming the lockdowns is just plain weird, since the same people that gave us the jab, often mandating it, locked us down. Either way, they’d be responsible for these deaths.
But that’s all kind of moot here, because for these Australian regions we can rule out COVID-19 and the lockdowns. It’s the jabs. If these regions also saw excess deaths rise along with mass vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccines, and they didn’t really have a COVID-19 problem or the sort of lockdowns that can cause widespread health crises, it is obvious that the jab – already acknowledged by Australian and other governments as causing deaths – is playing a significant role. I go through quite a lot of the evidence indicating that this hypothesis is not just possible and plausible, but probable – much of which my readers would already be familiar with:
- The exaggerated effectiveness and safety estimates of the jabs in observational studies and clinical trials. More people are noticing. Related research reveals that most of the jabs didn’t show a COVID-19 mortality benefit in their own trials, highlighting the impact of the healthy vaccinee effect (which means these exaggerations are greater), and indicates that there may have been fraud in the ‘Pfizer trial’.
- Negative effectiveness. Sounds utterly absurd and yet there is quite a bit of evidence that the jabs might actually increase the chance of COVID-19 infection/hospitalisation/death, and it’s even been discussed in major journals.
- Cardiovascular side-effects. Too much to go into, but the notion that they are all transient is ludicrous. Remember, even the myocarditis risks alone could outweigh the benefits in healthy children. Maybe beyond? Let’s also not forget that Pfizer is still trying to figure out “if COMIRNATY is safe and effective, and if there is a myocarditis/pericarditis association that should be noted”, God bless ‘em.
- Cancer. There’s been studies on cancers being up in the jabbed and the jab being linked to certain cancers. And where experts realise that there are mechanistic links between cancer and COVID-19, I note that the same links exist between cancer and COVID-19 vaccines. Recall also that the DNA contamination conspiracy theory turned out to be true, which increases the chance of oncogenicity. There is even some suspicion that such research is being suppressed.
- It is beyond obvious that COVID-19 vaccine side-effects are undercounted. High-profile doctors have spoken out about this and a recent study just about confirmed it.
- The highly influential Watson et al. study, absurdly claiming that the jabs saved tens of millions of lives in just one year, has been thoroughly debunked directly (with the critique reaching the FDA and the US Senate), and indirectly (and the attached comments show this one didn’t go far enough). Several other modelling studies have also been debunked.
- Both the American and Australian governments have acknowledged that the COVID-19 vaccines have killed people. Pretty much the same in the UK. No wonder authorities are starting to dial back vaccine recommendations, even acknowledging that for some the risks outweigh the benefits. It also looks very suspicious that the UK government apparently refused to publish data that could link COVID-19 vaccine to excess deaths.
- Back to the curious phenomenon of (especially post-pandemic) excess deaths (when we should actually see negative excess mortality), there’s quite a bit to catch up on. As early as 2022 experts and reporters were discussing the oddity, with some daring to wonder if the jabs are to blame. Suspicions continued to be raised in 2023, with some noticing that the jabbed were at times overrepresented in COVID-19 and total deaths. In 2024 even an article in a Lancet journal was touching on the issue. Governments and scholars were looking into it, and I also weighed in, noting that the lesser vaccinated countries in Europe appeared to have less of an issue. I addressed the sole published critique of that article in 2025, remarking: “Given the size, power and funding of the group of researchers arguing for the effectiveness and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines, the paucity and poor quality of their responses to more critical research is astonishing. We should expect better.”
- There’s more. Maybe that’s why even a US government under Biden, with RFK Jr not yet involved, acknowledged that they got so much wrong on the pandemic, including on the vaccines.
So there you have it. And I think I’ve found the same phenomenon (excess deaths alongside COVID-19 vaccination, with the COVID-19 and lockdown excuses being untenable) in other parts of the world, like the US and Asia, but that will have to wait for another day.
TL;DR: Four Australian regions saw excess deaths rising alongside COVID-19 vaccine use in 2021, while not having a big COVID-19 or lockdown problem. This adds to the increasing evidence that the jabs are a really bad idea.
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Dr Raphael Lataster is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialised in misinformation, and a former pharmacist. This article was first published in his Substack newsletter, Okay Then News. Read more on his research and legal actions, including his recent win against the healthcare vaccine mandate in New South Wales.
170,000 Students Bring Covid Compensation Claims Against 36 More Universities
By Will Jones
A further 36 universities face legal action from more than 170,000 current and former students, who say they did not receive the full education they paid for during Covid. BBC News has the story.
It follows a settlement between University College London (UCL) and the Student Claim Group, which is now representing other students and graduates.
Legal letters have been sent to each of the 36 other institutions, warning that they intend to seek damages for learning which students claim they paid for but did not actually receive.
The government at the time said universities were responsible for setting their own fees, and that it expected them to continue to deliver a high-quality education.
UCL has not admitted any liability in its case and the details of the settlement remain confidential, with neither the institution nor lawyers for the students able to discuss it.
The case against UCL involved 6,000 students and was due to be heard in court in March.
However, the deal now appears to have opened the way for large-scale legal action against the university sector, which is being brought under consumer law.
During the pandemic, most university teaching shifted online for long periods of time, with students either returned home or locked down in university accommodation.
Access to shared facilities on campus was restricted, which caused particular anger among students whose courses involved providing specialist facilities for practical work.
Students on fine art or applied arts courses were particularly angry at the time.
It led to a huge sense of frustration among students who felt they were missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study and make lifelong friends.
Graduation ceremonies were virtual or delayed, and those leaving university were seeking their first graduate jobs in an economy recovering from the pandemic.
Shimon Goldwater, a partner in Asserson Solicitors, said the learning that students missed out on during Covid “was one of the great injustices to come out of the pandemic – and it’s never been remedied”.
The main part of the claim is about the difference in tuition fee price between courses delivered online and in person, and the BBC understands economic analysis of this will form the basis of the new claims.
“It’s very simple, in English law if you paid for a five-star holiday and received a one-star holiday, you are entitled to compensation,” Goldwater said.
The Student Group Claim argues this basic principle of consumer law overrides any clauses in university contracts which seek to absolve the institution from responsibility for disruption.
Worth reading in full.
Starmer Abandons Plan to Cancel Local Elections
By Will Jones
Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned plans to cancel local elections in May “in light of recent legal advice”, reversing the decision to delay them in 30 local authorities until 2027. The Telegraph has more.
Elections in 30 local authorities will now go ahead, reversing the decision to delay them until 2027.
The Prime Minister’s latest U-turn follows the launch of the Telegraph’s Campaign for Democracy, which called for the delayed elections to go ahead this year.
The Labour Government had justified the delays by claiming that a looming reorganisation of local authorities would make elections expensive, complicated and unnecessary. However, it was accused of disenfranchising 4.6 million voters to avoid a wipeout by Reform UK on May 7th.
The policy reversal – which emerged two hours after Sir Keir had suggested he was done with U-turns – was announced in a letter from Steve Reed, the Local Government Secretary, before a legal challenge by Reform later this week.
Reed said the Government had made its decision after receiving “recent legal advice” that the delays were illegal.
The letter said: “The Secretary of State has decided to withdraw his decision to postpone the council elections of 30 local councils due to take place in May 2026 in the light of recent legal advice.”
It also confirmed that the Government would pay Reform’s legal costs for mounting the challenge. The policy reversal will pile pressure on Sir Keir to justify the initial decision.
Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, had compared Labour’s decision to one of a “dictator”, and announced that his party would contest the delays in court.
Farage suggested that Reed should resign over the fiasco, saying: “It’s a victory for Reform – but more importantly, it’s a victory for democracy in this country. We are delighted.
“I think for a Minister to do something that is clearly unlawful, otherwise they would not have gone and withdrawn themselves from the case on Thursday… Seems to me that if a Government Minister does something illegal, they really ought to resign.”
On Friday, Vijay Rangarajan, the Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission, told the Telegraph that the delays to elections were wrong and the Government did not have a “sufficient” justification for pushing them back to 2027.
He also argued that giving councillors the power to recommend delays to elections was a “conflict of interest” because it allowed them to avoid angry voters.
Labour is expected to lose swathes of seats to Reform in the local elections. Last month, polling for the Telegraph found that its majorities on 10 councils would be wiped out if the delayed elections went ahead on schedule.
Councils now have to prepare for elections ahead of May 7th. It is understood that around £63 million will be provided to the local authorities that were going to be affected to make sure they can deliver the elections and the reforms.
Worth reading in full.
Morlocks vs Eloi: How HG Wells Accidentally Predicted the West’s Growing Submission in the Face of Radical Islam
Charles Fourier was an early French theorist of utopian socialism (is there any other kind?), whose own ideas were so very, very utopian that he even thought political revolution in the human world would cause a corresponding physical revolution in the natural world as well. Specifically, he imagined lions would become vegetarians. Instead of eating people, in the paradisical socialist Europe of the future, the politically reformed former predators would approach lucky French citizens in the street, ask them to hop onto their backs and willingly serve as free feline taxi services.
Should any foolish Left-wing human lamb like Monsieur Fourier ever actually have tried hailing a passing lion to give him a ride home on the streets of Paris, the carelessly imported beast would simply have eaten him. And yet treating dangerous carnivores like harmless herbivores is precisely what today’s equally utopian Left still tell gullible white Western citizens to do in relation to the increasingly undeniable violent consequences of mass immigration.
A Why For an Eye?
There was an instructive American example from Atlanta, Georgia, just before Christmas, when a special needs white schoolboy was repeatedly stabbed in the eye with a pair of scissors by a black student in his high school, causing his peepers about as much permanent damage as that scene with the razor-blade in Un Chien Andalou. As the black boy allegedly spat the words “White bitch!” at his victim following the schoolyard stab-fest, it is reasonable to assume it may have been at least a tiny bit racially motivated.
The white victim’s reaction to being stabbed was curiously submissive, however. According to one witness, he just lay there, Charles Fourier-style, being chewed up wholesale by a supposedly ‘vegetarian’ lion, yet in apparent stunned denial of the fact:
He didn’t try to fight back because he’s not an aggressive person at all. So when he was on the floor… he was just sitting there, and everybody was in there recording him.
What can have caused this quite literally supine reaction to being stabbed in the eye? Granted, it may have had something to do with the boy’s reported autism, or an understandable state of extreme fear and shock: if I had just been scissored in the cornea, I doubt I would have reacted like Popeye swallowing his spinach. More disturbing, though, is the possibility his response may have been deliberately inculcated into the boy by the equally racially acquiescent society around him.
Tours de France
A controversial book published in France suggests where the cowed Atlanta schoolboy may perhaps have learned his reaction from: his teachers. As already shown in a previous article by Dr Nicholas Tate on this website, Anti-White Racism: The Forbidden Enquiry by journalist François Bousquet details how, in areas of France newly flooded with black and Muslim immigrants thanks to open borders, many native white Gauls have ended up systematically persecuted by their ungrateful ‘guests’. Bousquet focuses particularly on life in French schools, where white children have found themselves beaten up, insulted and even forced to adopt the trappings of Islam, like hijabs and porkless packed lunches, just to fit in.
Extraordinarily, when one white brother and sister approached their equally white teacher to complain about their constant bullying at the hands of blacks and browns, they were told their ethical duty lay not in resisting their racial persecution, but in compliantly submitting to it, or “to break the circle of violence by love”, as the adult idiot sickeningly had it.
The intended utopian socialist result was to transform the trainee Muslim lion-cubs into full-grown Fourierist vegetarians by sheer force of #BeKind moral example. The actual dystopian social result was to transform them into full-blown jihadi carnivores instead, who soon started transferring their predations towards their teachers: one French schoolteacher was famously beheaded after he allegedly showed kids forbidden images of the Prophet in class, whilst others ended up being ‘educated’ themselves by their own arrogant students.
History classes in particular, Bousquet tells us, are now often impossible to deliver. When the teacher stands at the blackboard and proudly lectures kids about the French Christian leader Charles Martel heroically defeating invading Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732, he is informed by his young charges that he must have got it all wrong. After all, Muslims never lose; they are the true warriors in this world, and white people their wretched and defeated slave-class, who give in to acts and threats of outsider violence every time. This must be true, the imported children may argue, because otherwise how would the Muslims have successfully managed to colonise the entire European continent over the last 50 years virtually without a single shot being fired?
Looked at like this, you have to admit, the little lions have a fair point.
Never Mind the Morlocks
Leaving lions aside, another metaphor is to say that white people increasingly seem to be being trained up by those in positions of alleged authority to become placid, compliant Eloi in the face of continual abusive assault from fierce and cannibalistic Morlocks. In H.G. Wells’ classic 1895 sci-fi novel The Time-Machine, these are the two future races into which humanity splits, with the effeminate above-ground Eloi serving as a handy source of tame food for the flesh-eating, warlike, ultra-masculine Morlocks.
If many Muslims are Morlocks, though, then some of them have worked out an even easier method of fattening up their intended white European cattle than beheading or stabbing them in the eye in schoolyards: falsely pretending to be Eloi themselves. So credulous are the true Left-wing white Eloi who currently (but ultimately only temporarily) run our countries that many will automatically believe the obvious taqiyya lie, no questions asked.
Take events across the Channel from France here in Bradford, a highly ‘diverse’ location where, for the last few years, there have been two official Christmas trees erected in the town centre: one an actual Christmas tree, the other a so-called “Multicultural Tree”. This “Faith Tree”, as it is also called, is funded and sponsored by various suggestively-named Bradford businesses, including Asian Express, Abu Bakr Supermarket, Zouk Tea Bar & Grill, My Lahore, Mangla Jewellers and Jinnah Restaurant – and also some other, highly Eloi-ified non-Muslim businesses and organisations too, who happily cough up their unknowing jizyah tax voluntarily.
How do Bradford’s non-whites – not just Muslims, but Hindus, Sikhs and others – explain this duplicate tree to the gullible whites of the city? According to one happy Bradfordian with the characteristically English surname of Javed, interviewed by the BBC in December, the tree is “something of immense love and care we can show to the city itself”. Also interviewed by the BBC was a white female Eloi from Bradford Rotary Club with the actual characteristically English surname of Griffin, who trustingly agreed, saying that “The beauty of Bradford is we [i.e., people of all colours and creeds] work together, we are a team.” Really?
Just imagine if, next Eid, Bradford’s resident white Christians clubbed together to create their own prominent replica festival lights to complement those of the Muslims, calling them ‘Multicultural Lights’ or ‘Tolerance Lanterns’ too. Do you think local Muslims would be most likely to respond with peace and love, like Eloi, or with anger and threats, like Morlocks?
All’s Not Well That Ends Wells
Some Eloi-minded folk dismiss fears of a looming Morlock takeover of Europe as overblown, on the initially reasonable-sounding grounds that the Morlocks still just don’t have the numbers. According to modelling from leading American research body the Pew Research Center, by 2050 Europe as a whole may possess an overall Muslim population of between 11–14%. In some countries it will be higher; in Sweden, maybe 30%; in France, the UK and Belgium, 17–18%. So, depending on where you live, at least 70% of people still won’t be mosque-goers by the century’s midpoint. Nothing to worry about, then? Not quite.
Put one Morlock armed with a pair of scissors in a room full of ten cowering Eloi armed with nothing but shouts of “Kumbaya, brother!” and who’s going to end up in charge? I’d predict it to be the single Morlock; by the time the massed sheeple finally start fighting back, they’ll each have had their eyes gouged out long ago. Maybe they’ll manage to inflict a single ocular blow against their oppressor in the end, but by that point it will all be far too late. As H.G. Wells once pointed out, in the Country of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.
In Bradford, despite the newfound presence of a festive Dhimmitude-Tree – sorry, Inter-Faith Multiculti-Love-Tree – local Christians actually still slightly outnumber local Muslims, by 33% to 30%. Yet still the Morlocks dominate.
In Italy, a Muslim political scientist, Ibraham Youssef, has let the camel out of the bag by forecasting that, come 2050, when the Pew people predict Italy will be 10% Muslim, the Mohammedans’ superior political will as a unified voting bloc, compared to more ideologically divided and electorally split native whites, will allow them to twist politicians into altering Italy’s entire civilisation towards desired Muslim designs, even though they will be outnumbered by non-Muslims by as many as ten to one. In this, Youssef says, Muslims should “emulate the Zionist lobby” in America, whose influence he thinks also vastly outweighs its numbers; a rare example of a Muslim who actually admires Jews, then.
Eloi, Eloi, Eloi, What’s All This, Then?
If he really does admire Jews, Youssef should stay away from England’s second city of Birmingham. As in 2020s Bradford, the number of Christians and Muslims is almost equal there, each bloc hovering at about 30%. So, 70% of the city is not Muslim at all, but who actually runs it? The minority 30% Morlock demographic, as they’re the ones who wield all the scissors.
Jews are a mere 0.6% of Birmingham’s population, so represent an early test-case of what lies in store for everyone else. As you’ll surely know, last year, when Birmingham’s leading football club Aston Villa was scheduled to play against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv, the confluence of Muslims and Jews in the city seemed likely to cause major ructions. Upon police instruction, Maccabi supporters were not allowed to attend the game, on the grounds they were supposedly all far-Right ultra-Zionist hooligans who would attack peaceful local Muslims.
Subsequent investigation, however, now revealed that matters were the other way around: armed Muslim mobs had in fact promised to attack the ‘genocidal’ Israeli fans if they set foot in the Caliphate’s newest outpost, and West Midlands Police decided it would be easier to just flip the truth on its head. To portray the Israelis as thugs, cops invented AI-generated “evidence” of prior violent misbehaviour from a fictional previous game against English opponents which never even took place, and told lie after lie.
Why? For one thing, the Morlocks were probably simply too strong for them. For another thing, the Force’s Chief Constable, a self-serving (and since thankfully departed) tumour-headed cretin called Craig Guildford, only got his job after winning approval from an interview panel which included an imam from a local extremism-linked mosque, which may help to explain why he was seen in a video from 2024 nervously intoning “Salaam Alaikum” and thanking Muslim “leaders and elders” for oh-so-graciously allowing him to speak to, and protect, them from all their evil white enemies.
Guilford’s officers even took to meekly subjugating elected British politicians on behalf of the offended local Morlock community. After white Conservative Party MP Nick Timothy confronted Muslim protestors outside Aston Villa’s stadium, they asked a nearby policewoman to “take this dog away”. And, obediently, she did so. It’s a wonder she didn’t attach a lead around the man’s neck.
In general, Muslims don’t like pigs, but in Birmingham they seem to have made an exception. If even the British police force – the very people who are supposed to be hard enough to protect ordinary citizens from the mass predations of violent and criminal Morlocks of all kinds – have now been successfully transformed into Eloi themselves too in this fashion, then what chance do the rest of us have?
Peace of the Action
The ‘dhimmified’ criminal justice system doesn’t even bother protecting its own from Morlock depredations these days; recall the early February trial of the keffiyeh-clad Palestine Action (PA) hooligans who smashed a policewoman’s spine in with a sledgehammer whilst in the process of vandalising an Israeli-owned arms factory near Bristol, before effectively getting away with it all, at least for now. Confronted with such an apparent miscarriage of justice, what was the High Court’s subsequent response, before even a full two weeks had passed? To provisionally ‘de-ban’ (if that’s a word) PA as being a proscribed terror-group in the first place, on the ludicrous grounds they had not committed enough serious terror offences yet.
Is shattering a young woman’s spine and half-destroying a factory not serious enough for the Eloi judges involved, then? Jew-hating UK neo-Nazi organisations like National Action haven’t actually committed any violent crimes anything like as serious as the PA hammer attack, they just unsuccessfully planned to, but that never stopped the state banning them as a terror group for good: there must be something about the difference between saying you’re acting illegally in the name of your own nation, and saying you’re acting illegally in the name of somebody else’s, which causes the state to act in a two-tier fashion here for some obscure reason.
The truly odd thing about the crew of six PA Morlocks who attacked the Israeli drone-factory was that, despite their keffiyehs and worship of the Gazan cause, only one of them appeared to be an actual Muslim – the others were all young white people of a variety best described as being classic Eloi. Just look at them: a gayer-looking bunch of gang-bangers have you ever seen?
They look as if they wouldn’t hurt a fly – just Zionists and fascist coppers. The PA Six presented themselves via the media as being Gandhi incarnate, albeit with the strange white rags wrapped around their heads, not their abdomens. Leona Kamio, 30, is a self-described “forest teacher” who, when not committing acts of brutal terrorism, spends her days educating toddlers outdoors in how best to love pretty colourful butterflies and buzzy bees. Zoe Rogers, 22, is so committed to facilitating world peace, she studies a made-up subject called “Interdisciplinary Problem Solving” (lesson one: if in doubt, hit the problem repeatedly with a large hammer). Whenever asked why she became a terrorist, her stock answer was “I tell them about the [Palestinian] children.” What about the poor crippled policewoman’s children, too, if she had any? Jordan Devlin, 31, had a charming hobby of feeding squirrels through his London window (but aren’t grey squirrels currently squatting on occupied land?), ran arts and crafts workshops, had been offered a job at Greenpeace and was described as being “someone who is very much against conflict of any sort”, destroying coppers’ vertebrae excepted. Even Samuel Corner, 23, the white Eloi who personally pounded the policewoman with his sledgehammer, has a silly girl’s haircut and claims his autism renders him hyper-sensitive to the possibility he might accidentally hurt other people’s feelings, if not necessarily their spines.
This seems like a strange new form of Morlock-Eloi crossbreed; fanatically willing to commit the Morlocks’ own desired acts of violence for them, yet equally fanatically unwilling to stand up for themselves and their own doomed race’s actual wellbeing in the face of far worse constant Morlock aggression, which they seem somehow emotionally conditioned to completely ignore. H.G. Wells’ negative sci-fi vision of excessively feminized Western mankind’s horrible cattle-truck future is often condemned as being too pessimistic. Evidently it was nowhere near pessimistic enough.
As Wells once predicted, we really are now living in a Time Machine; we’re rapidly being transported back to around 732 and the Battle of Tours, but in slow-motion disguise and with many of our own brainwashed “warriors” fighting only for the other side. Remind me, who won that particular sporting fixture again? According to today’s ‘French’ schoolchildren, in the long-term, it was actually the Morlocks.
Glacier Scaremongering
A new scientific study says we should worry more about glaciers getting bigger than shrinking! The Mail reports:
While many of the world’s glaciers are in rapid retreat, scientists have been baffled to find 3,100 that are “surging”.
While this might sound like a good thing, the experts warn that it could be even more “troublesome” than glacial retreat.
During a surge, a glacier sends large amounts of ice built up over decades racing downhill, where it rapidly melts in the warm lower-altitude weather.
Scientists aren’t entirely sure what triggers surges, but research suggests they are probably related to conditions in the glacier’s underside, where ice meets the ground.
The problem with this latest silly study is that we have only had the technology to measure remote glaciers in the last few years – things like satellites and GPS. Nobody, least of all these researchers, has the slightest idea whether these or other glaciers have been doing exactly the same thing for decades or even longer. In other words, it is probably just a normal, natural event.
And as they admit, they have not got a clue why the glaciers are getting bigger. That does not stop them, though, from blaming global warming and making the mandatory reference to ‘extreme weather’, which we apparently never had in the past.
Scare stories like these depend on inculcating the myth that glaciers were unchanged for thousands of years until man came along with his SUVs. But as real glaciologists have known for a century or more, this is not the case.
One of the regions identified in this study is Alaska, a land where explorers were mapping glaciers as long ago as the late 18th Century. Successive explorers, such as John Muir, continued the work in Glacier Bay, which proved that the tidewater glacier that existed when George Vancouver’s expedition arrived in 1794 had largely melted away by the end of the 1800s:
Further back in time, we know that some Alaskan glaciers were much smaller than now during the Medieval Warming Period. As glaciers retreat, they expose the remains of forests that have been carbon-dated to about 1,200 years ago. Last time I checked, forests do not grow on glaciers, or for that matter anywhere near them.
These long-term cycles of expansion and retreat were all perfectly natural events that happened long before man came along with his SUV.
It is a similar story in the European Alps, also mentioned in the study. Many of Switzerland’s glaciers did not exist in Roman times but were instead covered in forests. Then came the Little Ice Age, an absolutely horrific period for those living in that part of the world.
The historian Brian Fagan’s excellent book, The Little Ice Age, details some of the documentary evidence from the time:
In the 16th Century the occasional traveller would remark on the poverty and suffering of those who lived on the marginal lands in the glacier’s shadow. At that time Chamonix was an obscure poverty-stricken parish in “a poor country of barren mountains never free of glaciers and frosts… half the year there is no sun… the corn is gathered in the snow… and is so mouldy it has to be heated in the oven”. Even animals were said to refuse bread made from Chamonix wheat.
As the glaciers relentlessly pushed downslope thousands of acres of farmland were ruined and many villages were left uninhabitable such as La Bois where a government official noted “where there are still six houses. all uninhabited save two, in which live some wretched women and children… Above and adjoining the village there is a great and horrible glacier of great and incalculable volume which can promise nothing but the destruction of the houses and lands which still remain”. Eventually the village was completely abandoned.
Between 1627 and 1633 Chamonix lost a third if its land through avalanches, snow, glaciers and flooding, and the remaining hectares were under constant threat. In 1642 the Des Bois glacier advanced “over a musket shot every day, even in August”.
By this time people near the ice front were planting only oats and a little barley in fields that were under snow for most of the year. Their forefathers had paid their tithes in wheat. Now they obtained but one harvest in three and even the grain rotted after harvesting. “The people here are so badly fed they are dark and wretched and seem only half alive”.
Just as in Alaska, the Alpine glaciers began to retreat rapidly from the middle of the 1800s onwards, as plenty of photographic evidence proves. The process continues to this day.
This latest study, like so many climate studies nowadays, takes a few short years’ data and pretends that it has any significance whatsoever. In doing so, it sweeps under the carpet the wealth of evidence accumulated over the years by real experts.
White House Set to Accept Koran Burner Hamit Coskun as Refugee if he Loses Appeal Tomorrow
By Will Jones
The Trump administration is in talks to accept Hamit Coskun, who burnt a Koran in a protest outside the Turkish embassy, as a refugee from Britain if his ‘blasphemy’ conviction is reinstated by the High Court this week. The Telegraph has the story.
State department officials are preparing to help Hamit Coskun flee the UK if he loses a ‘blasphemy case’ this week.
The potential intervention is likely to escalate transatlantic tensions over free speech, which critics have claimed is being eroded under Sir Keir Starmer’s Government.
Coskun overturned a conviction for a religiously aggravated public order offence after he burnt the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in London.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is contesting that decision at a hearing in the High Court on Tuesday. A senior US administration official said his case was “one of several cases the administration has made note of”.
Coskun sought asylum in the UK from his home country of Turkey, saying Islamic terrorists had destroyed his family’s life. He told the Telegraph that, if he did lose his case, he may be forced “to flee” and seek protection in the US.
“For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism,” he said.
“If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world.”
On February 13th last year, Coskun, who is of Armenian-Kurdish descent, travelled from his home in the Midlands to the Turkish consulate in Knightsbridge.
He then set fire to the holy book and held it above his head, shouting “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “f— Islam”.
As Coskun did so, Moussa Kadri, a passer-by, attacked him and appeared to slash at him with a blade before kicking him when he fell to the ground.
Kadri was given a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, while Coskun was originally charged by the CPS with harassing the “religious institution of Islam”.
However, the charge was later amended after the National Secular Society and the Free Speech Union took up his cause and argued that he was effectively being accused of blasphemy, an offence abolished in the UK 18 years ago.
At his trial, lawyers for the CPS insisted that Coskun was not being prosecuted for setting fire to the Koran.
Instead, they claimed, he was being prosecuted for “disorderly behaviour in public”. Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence and fined £240.
At Southwark Crown Court in October, however, that conviction was overturned.
Toby said:
If the CPS succeeds in getting Hamit’s acquittal overturned, breaking an Islamic blasphemy code, whether it’s ‘desecrating’ the ‘holy book’ or showing a class of schoolchildren cartoons of Mohamed, will become a religiously aggravated public order offence, just so long as the blasphemer is violently attacked by Muslim fanatics. You’ve heard of the heckler’s veto. This will create a stabber’s veto. It will sound the death knell for free speech in Britain.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Watch Toby on GB News last night explaining why it will be hugely embarrassing for Sir Keir Starmer and the British Government if Hamit is granted political asylum from the UK by the US on human rights grounds.
Special Educational Needs Spending is Being Exploited by Middle-Class Parents
By Sallust
The Mail has a piece by Dr Max Pemberton about the deeply uncomfortable truth concerning special educational needs children in the UK:
A significant chunk of the money that should be spent on educating all children is being hoovered up by the special educational needs system, and it is increasingly being gamed by sharp-elbowed middle-class parents.
A report published last week by the think-tank Policy Exchange lays bare what many working in children’s services have suspected for some time. SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) spending has risen in real terms by 58.5% in the last six years, with a greater rise – 65% – in wealthier local authorities compared to poorer areas, where it increased by 51%.
Seven of the 10 councils that saw the biggest rises were in the most affluent areas, such as Hampshire, Kent and Surrey.
Since 2015, half of all new school funding has been spent on SEND. Let that sink in. Half.
Nearly one in five children in England are now classed as having a SEND need, and the number of EHCPs (Education, Health and Care Plans) has more than doubled since 2015.
You can find Policy Exchange’s report here.
As Pemberton explains:
There are children with profound and serious special educational needs who desperately need support. Children with severe autism, significant learning disabilities, complex physical needs.
These children and their families deserve every penny of funding and then some. The system exists for them but it is failing them. And that is the problem.
The problem, he says, are certain parents who are incapable of or unwilling to accept that their offspring might not be geniuses:
Some middle-class parents simply cannot accept that their child might not be that bright, or that sociable, or that talented. When two successful, high achieving parents produce a distinctly average child, the idea that their charge is just, well, ordinary is intolerable. There must be something wrong.
There must be a reason he or she is not top of the class. And so begins the frantic quest for a diagnosis, a label, something that explains why their offspring isn’t the genius they expected.
Policy Exchange’s Report (p. 8) states:
Despite clear evidence linking SEND needs to deprivation, spending has risen fastest in the most affluent 50% of local authorities. Over the six-year period average SEND spending increased in real terms by 65% in the 50% most affluent local authorities in England, whilst rising by 51% in the 50% most deprived council areas – a difference of 14 percentage points. 70% of the councils that saw the highest increases in SEND spending were in the 50% most affluent local authority areas. This inequitable growth, despite clear links between deprivation and SEND need, highlights how factors beyond natural increase are driving spending growth in the SEND system. Previous research by the Sutton Trust has found that middle class families were more likely to appeal to the SEND Tribunal to secure an EHCP and more likely to secure a special school place for their child.
Pemberton explains, and as usual you only need to follow the money:
It couldn’t possibly just be that not every child is exceptional. Far easier to get an ADHD diagnosis than to accept that your child finds maths hard because maths is hard.
What makes this worse is a growing trend of parents bypassing the usual assessment routes altogether by going private. NHS waiting lists for autism and ADHD assessments can stretch to years.
A BBC Panorama investigation in 2023 exposed how some private clinics were diagnosing ADHD after rushed online consultations. One senior NHS psychiatrist told the programme that almost everyone who paid for a private assessment was being diagnosed.
There is, of course, a clear financial incentive for private clinics to do this: parents are paying customers, and a diagnosis is what they are paying for. No diagnosis, no repeat business.
Local authorities are legally obliged to consider privately obtained reports, and many parents know this.
So they hire SEND consultants and commission independent educational psychologist reports at over a £1,000 a time, and if the council says no, they appeal to the SEND Tribunal.
It requires money, confidence and time – the kind of resources that affluent, entitled families have and that families in deprived communities do not.
This site has already carried pieces about this scandal by Mary Gilleece, for example on how SEND spending should be cut.
The Policy Exchange Report concludes:
The Government’s upcoming reforms must grapple with the funding challenges in the system. With the Government committing to assume responsibilities for SEND funding – and the deficits councils have accrued – from the end of 2028, placing the SEND system on a secure financial footing will be essential for public finances. The system cannot offer fairness to schools, families and young people with SEND if financial sustainability – and the reassurance that support can be sustained for as long as it is needed – cannot be restored as part of future reform.
The Mail’s piece is worth reading in full.
News Round-Up
- “Cabinet Office to investigate claims a Labour-linked think tank paid for probe into journalists” – The Cabinet Office has launched a probe into claims that Labour Together hired investigators to smear journalists exposing its secret donations, reports the Mail.
- “How Labour Together tried to smear Fleet Street” – A 58-page report codenamed ‘Operation Cannon’ is quickly becoming another crisis threatening Starmer’s grip on power, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “The thuggish politics of the Labour Party have been revealed” – The Sunday Times smear scandal exposes the cancer at the core of the British Left, argues Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “When will Starmer’s U-turns end? Council election about-face farce is number 14 for the PM in just 19 months in office” – In the Mail, David Wilcock revisits all the U-turns made by Labour since July 2024.
- “Starmer’s latest vindictive move is a gross insult to the Monarchy” – It seems like the Prime Minister is in self-destruct mode by re-branding ‘His Majesty’s Government’ to just the ‘UK Government’, writes Sir Michael Ellis in the Telegraph.
- “Small-boat migrants awarded upto £500,000 after border agents seized their phones” – More than 70 illegal migrants have been awarded around half a million pounds in compensation after their phones were seized by UK authorities, reports GB News.
- “Asylum seeker who threatened a Christian preacher with a knife is spared jail” – A Sudanese asylum seeker who yanked a Christian preacher off his ladder and threatened him with a knife at Speakers’ Corner has walked free without jail time, says the Mail.
- “Algerian migrant caught stealing pricey Canada Goose beanies is handed £150 fine” – An Algerian migrant has been slapped with just a £150 fine after nicking expensive Canada Goose beanies from Selfridges while already on bail, reports the Mail.
- “Police arrest Christian pastor and visit his home after he commented on Islam and trans ideology while street preaching” – Police have arrested a Christian pastor after he made comments about Islam and trans ideology during peaceful street preaching in Bristol, says ADF International.
- “Speaker who compared Gaza to Holocaust teaches CofE primary pupils Muslim prayer” – A CofE primary school has invited a Muslim speaker who compared Gaza to the Holocaust to come in and teach the kids how to pray to Allah, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jew-hatred ‘running amok’ in Britain, says Trump’s antisemitism tsar” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Trump’s antisemitism tsar Yehuda Kaploun has urged Keir Starmer to ban Islamist groups and clamp down on protesters turning parts of the UK into no-go zones for Jewish people.
- “Terrorism no longer shocks Britain” – We’ve reached a point where even foiled terror plots against Jews don’t shock us anymore, laments Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Pro-Palestine activist who harassed Matt Lucas at Tube station identified” – The pro-Palestine man who harassed Matt Lucas on the Tube is a 6ft 7in ginger-haired Corbyn fan and Islamic convert who calls himself “White British Muslim” online, reveals the Mail.
- “Epstein victim describes how the paedophile raped her from age of 14” – An Epstein victim has opened up to Imogen Garfinkel in the Mail about being raped by him from just 14 and slammed Prince Andrew for ignoring survivors like her.
- “Spain could give more than a million illegal migrants legal status” – Police are warning that Spain might end up legalising over a million illegal migrants – way more than first thought, according to the Mail.
- “Meloni’s war on the woke Left” – Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has used a recent TV spat to ramp up her fight against the woke Left’s “illiberal drift”, writes James Crisp in the Telegraph’s latest in a series exploring her influence on Italy, Europe and beyond.
- “House report on EU censorship and election interference” – EU officials have been censoring Americans and meddling in our elections, says Dr Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “Will Canada soon be euthanising babies?” – In the Spectator, Fleur Elizabeth Meston warns that Canada is seriously debating whether to allow euthanasia for newborns.
- “NHS hospital ‘unlawfully withdraws life support from patient’” – An NHS hospital has been accused of unlawfully withdrawing life support from a patient with brain damage, reports the Telegraph.
- “Headteacher left in wheelchair after attack by special needs student” – A headteacher who now needs a wheelchair after being attacked by a pupil with special needs has won a six-figure payout, according to the Express.
- “Scientist gives himself brain damage by testing secret audio weapon on himself” – A scientist has accidentally given himself brain damage while testing a secret audio weapon to prove ‘Havana Syndrome’ isn’t real, says the Mail.
- “AI isn’t magic. We’re just being taken for mugs” – Markets are terrified by Silicon Valley’s sci-fi disaster warnings – even when these defy common sense, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “The dangers of UpScrolled” – UpScrolled, a social platform for unfiltered content, has turned out to be way more worrying than expected, says Limor Simhony Philpott in the Spectator.
- “Vauxhall owner to restart sales of diesel cars in Britain” – Vauxhall’s owners have decided to bring back diesel car sales in Britain because EV plans just aren’t matching what drivers actually want, according to GB News.
- “Smart meters are simply a way to control us” – Smart meters are a tool to control our energy use, claims David Hulland in the Conservative Woman.
- “Ed Miliband hails clean energy deal with Trump’s worst enemy Gavin Newsom” – Ed Miliband has paraded a new clean energy pact with Gavin Newsom – Trump’s big California foe – amid warnings Britain faces blackouts unless he drops Net Zero targets, says the Mail.
- “When the lights go out: winter storms, solar flares and America’s fragile grid” – Is the US electric grid ready for the next winter storm – or a solar disaster? asks Paul Driessen in Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Claim: AI and air conditioning are threatening renewable energy dominance” – In WUWT?, Eric Worrall slams the “fiction” that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, arguing that without rationing, clean energy can’t keep up with booming demand.
- “Why doesn’t the Church want us to get married?” – Getting married in church has become ridiculously expensive compared to a town hall do. Why is the Church trying to discourage people from getting married? wonders Luke Taylor in the Spectator.
- “Young people do want to marry. They just can’t afford it” – Young folks actually do want to get married but the costs make it impossible, explains Dr Tony Rucinski in the Conservative Woman.
- “Labour MP pushes African Union demands for Britain to pay billions of pounds in slave trade reparations” – According to the
Mail, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy is pushing the African Union’s demands for Britain to pay slavery reparations. - “Jenny’s story shows why social transitioning in schools must be banned” – Adults are at liberty to make profound choices about their own bodies, says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph. But children are not miniature adults.
- “Trans activism in universities ‘like Stalinist purges’” – Trans activism on university campuses has started feeling eerily like Stalinist purges with all the conformity demands, the Vice-Chancellor of City St George’s, University of London, tells the Telegraph.
- “Trans man ‘repeatedly assaulted girlfriend with prosthetic penis’” – Hove Crown Court has heard how a biologically female transman kept assaulting her girlfriend with a prosthetic penis even when she begged her to stop, says the Mail.
- “Moment trans activist who accused Graham Linehan of harassment – only for the comedian to be cleared – is arrested outside court” – Ex-police officer Lynsay Watson, the trans activist who accused Graham Linehan of harassment, has been arrested outside the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, reports the Mail.
- “Team behind Oscar-winning 90s horror movie regarded as one of greatest ever issue groveling apology to the transgender community 35 years on” – The folks behind The Silence of the Lambs have issued a grovelling apology to the trans community over how a serial killer was portrayed, says the Mail.
- “The picturesque Surrey hamlet besieged by 10 traveller sites” – Millionaire homeowners in a quaint Surrey hamlet are reeling after travellers set up 10 illegal sites and paved over greenbelt for 70 caravans, according to the Mail.
- “Britain is starting to feel like a drizzly gulag run by the cast of Hi-de-Hi!” – Trump’s asylum offer to a Koran burner highlights the sad, anti-free-speech regime that has emerged in the UK over the last two decades, writes Sean Thomas in the Telegraph.
- “The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by…” – On X, CFACT’s Chris Martz points to decades of embarrassingly wrong Arctic “ice-free” predictions, which do far more to undermine the public’s trust in science than build it.
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