Within two months of the start of the fake pandemic (back in 2020) it was clear that our greatest threat would come not from the tiny group of people trying to take over the world but from the collaborators who were willing to accept, unquestioningly, the lies they were told. And that is exactly what happened.
In Scotland the authorities have decided that children as young as 12 can consent to take puberty blockers – accepting ‘trans-affirming medical interventions’. Those who are a little older than 12 may have surgery such as a mastectomy. The authorities have decided that a child aged 12 and over is presumed to have sufficient capacity to make decisions about medical treatment. So, although they’re not considered old enough to have sex, vote, drive a car or get married, they are considered old enough to change the shape of their lives. I suspect most people would argue that children of 12 aren’t mature enough to tidy up their bedroom without adult intervention.
It is rumoured that someone in show business has been found not to be suffering from either ADHD or autism. They are said to be very embarrassed and their identity is being protected.
There is, apparently, some dismay in the mainstream media at the fact that the political representative for Edinburgh South West, in Scotland, has been `cancelled’ from a speaking event because she is (and I hope this is the correct term) a gender critical feminist. Apparently junior members of staff didn’t approve of what they thought she would say and so their views had to be respected by cancelling the invitation. The mainstream media pretended to be shocked by this. In fact, the SNP politician was lucky to be invited at all. I, and other doctors who questioned the covid fraud and the effectiveness and safety of the covid jab are banned from everywhere. I’m not only banned from all mainstream media, all around the world, (with newspapers and publishers refusing to publish anything I write) but I’m also banned from all social media – including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and everything else. I was expelled from the Royal Society of Arts for daring to share facts and justified conclusions with my readers. And, of course, my truth-telling videos on YouTube were all deleted. Interviewers who have spoken to me on podcasts and radio programmes have lost their PayPal accounts and been removed from platforms – simply for interviewing me. And on one occasion 17 minutes mysteriously disappeared from a radio interview. Oh and Wikipedia, the ersatz encyclopaedia, described as corrupt by one of its founders, cut out all my achievements (lists of books, TV programmes, etc.) and filled its page about me with lies and garbage which were then shared and disseminated by the evil Google. (An amateur editor decided that I was a discredited conspiracy theorist.) No one in the mainstream media gives a toss about any of this deliberately designed mixture of suppression, censorship, oppression and demonisation. Ironically, if I had ignored the lies being told about covid, and merely spoken out about transgender issues, I would have been banned but everyone would have been dismayed and my views would have been given more publicity than they might otherwise have received. Let us please have less of this nonsense about people being ‘cancelled’ just because they can’t speak at one or two particular events or just because they have a tweet or a video deleted.
Nothing illustrates the decline of the GP more than the way GPs now refuse to do work which they seem to regard as beneath them. GPs no longer take blood pressures, take blood samples, stitch wounds, remove stitches or syringe ears. And in many practices even the nurses refuse to do these things – preferring to leave them to less well trained members of staff. (In hospital, nurses consider themselves far too important to plump up pillows, soothe the sick, care for people, do nursing, put flowers in vases or feed patients. Since auxiliaries and porters aren’t allowed to touch patients, these things are left undone and patients starve to death.) My good friend Dr Colin Barron tells me, incidentally, that although doctors and nurses now refuse to remove ear wax (it is, I assume, regarded as beneath them or maybe they are all just too busy giving vaccinations) there are now private clinics which will perform this task. He tells me that some opticians now provide this service for around £55. Dr Colin Barron also points out that patients with eye problems are now supposed to visit an optician and not a doctor. ‘This is quite a good idea,’ he says. He points out that: ‘opticians are better at looking at eyes than most GPs as they have better training and equipment. Most GPs only have handheld ophthalmoscopes which are useless for diagnosing a lot of conditions. Opticians now know how to use slit lamps and have sophisticated scanning equipment.’ As always, excellent advice from Dr Barron who, at one point in his varied and distinguished career, was a Registrar in Ophthalmology.
We know that drug interactions are a major cause of illness. But no one has ever checked to see if it is safe to give dozens of different vaccines to infants and small children. How many million infants and children have been killed or injured by approved vaccination programmes? No one knows. And no one will ever know. However, governments have paid out billions (yes billions) of dollars in damages to vaccine damaged individuals.
There will be no room for pets in the Great Reset. All pets (cats and dogs and budgerigars) will be destroyed. The changes will take place slowly. At first there will be more rules about where dogs can walk, how much licences will cost, when dogs should be muzzled or on the lead and so on. And then, the number of dog bites will be quoted as a reason for eliminating pets completely. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Plans have been approved in England for a 15 storey tower block for women only. Men will only be allowed to live in the block if they become a tenant’s partner. Transgendered women will be allowed in but transgendered men will not. And crossdressers will not be allowed in the building. How can any of this be legal?
Investors’ Chronicle magazine dealt with an investment query from a 28-year-old junior doctor. The doctor was earning £55,000, had a flat in London worth £425,000 and no mortgage. He had £96,000 in a savings account, £10,000 in an investment account and £2,000 cash. He wanted to buy a house in London for one million pounds and a cottage in the West Country. As British readers will know junior doctors have recently been on strike for a 35% pay rise.
We, in England, should take heart from the fact that in the last few years we defeated the Government’s attempt to force us to accept Regional Authorities, the Government’s attempt to force us to carry identity cards and the Government’s attempt to force house owners to have expensive and intrusive and useless surveys done on their homes. All those victories were over Tony Blair and a Labour Government.
Several decades ago I used mortality figures to prove that doctors were one of the top three causes of death (along with circulatory disease and cancer). My conclusion was widely scorned at the time but now you’d be hard pressed to find a doctor who didn’t agree that I was right.
Today, I’m afraid that the number of deaths caused by doctors is going up rapidly and doctors have for some time killed more people than cancer. Indeed, I strongly suspect that doctors are now the major cause of death in the western world – especially if vaccine deaths are included.
For a variety of reasons, some complex and some simple, modern, State-run health care is beyond repair and now kills more people than it saves.
Health care is changing at a phenomenal rate.
Governments are closing small hospitals and casualty departments and concentrating services in bigger and bigger hospitals. (This is being done to please the EU whose bureaucrats believe that big is beautiful and bigger is even more beautiful). Patients who need a GP are being told to telephone for advice rather than to visit the surgery. (The excuse for this is that it will save the planet by reducing the use of petrol). Patients who are injured in accidents are told to telephone ahead and get permission in advance if they think they need to be seen in a casualty department. This may all sound bizarre. But it's true.
Today, medicine is all about making money and the people who work in State-run health care are more driven by the urge to make as much of it as possible than the people working in the so-called private sector. The problems are not new. Back in July 2011, an official UK report announced that NHS managers were deliberately delaying operations in the hope that patients would remove themselves from the waiting lists `either by dying or by paying for their own treatment'. The report from the Cooperation and Competition Panel said that this tactic was one of a number used by NHS managers. At the same time GPs were being told that they were restricted in the number of referrals they could make. After threatening to collapse for years, the NHS was at last crumbling apart; aided and abetted, it has to be said, by avaricious staff members as much as incompetence.
The big issues are ignored and suppressed and those who raise them are dismissed as lunatics, heretics or fanatics. Anyone who dares to spread the truth, or raise questions, will be subjected to smear campaigns. Our liberty and our freedom of speech have been strangled by cross party consensus and an obedient media. Politicians and commentators concentrate their efforts on narrow, specific questions. The big questions, the important questions, are never asked. And so, not surprisingly, no answers are forthcoming either.
The world’s best known and longest established State-run medical service, Britain’s NHS, now consists of layers of administration dedicated to deceit and committed to the principle of belligerent distortion of the truth; it practises (and is the world’s best exponent of) institutionalised deception. Everything in medicine is now about money. The system exists not to protect us but to protect itself. Politicians protect the NHS because they dare not destroy it. Doctors, nurses (and other NHS workers) protect it because it protects them, feeds them and makes some of them (actually, a good many of them) exceedingly rich without their having to work too hard. This is what happens in a burgeoning fascist State. The NHS is run by incompetent people who never question their competence and so do not recognise their shortcomings. Discussions about health care never touch the real problems. Big issues (such as `Should there be an NHS?') are considered politically unacceptable so everyone involved just tinkers around the edges of the problem. No one likes to admit that the NHS is dangerous to our health or that hospitals should have a health warning hanging over their doors. The NHS stumbles along: a headless, directionless monster, kept alive by summer fetes and bring-and-by sales where local do-gooders gather together to raise cash to buy scalpels, bedpans and new bed linen. The innocent, the naive and the well-meaning fundraisers don’t realise that every penny donated protects the corrupt system and keep the whole sorry mess alive. In spirit the NHS died years ago. The shambling, disorganised, corrupt organisation which survives is a marriage between State and consumer which long ago fell apart; destroyed by the trusting naivety of the one partner and the reckless, short-sighted greed of the other. Doctors and nurses have (like long stay patients) become institutionalised. They accept everything and question nothing. They have sold their souls to the State. The NHS now kills more people than it saves. No one gives a damn about patients any more. There is no longer any such thing as a `public service' ethos among employees.
Over a decade ago I wrote that my fear was that everything would continue to get worse. And it is. Today, medical students and young nurses are being taught within a system which is geared towards defending administrators and drug companies and wherein patients are regarded (if they are regarded at all) as a nuisance. Staff are not allowed to listen to anyone (such as me) offering a realistic, honest view of what is going wrong. Doctors would much rather sweep the problems under the carpet than have the problems exposed, threatening their cosy existence.
Any system which cannot cope with real criticism is corrupt.
New cars will tell the authorities where the driver started his journey, what places he visited, what speeds he did (and where) and so and so on. There will be no need for speed cameras or for policemen to sit in cars on motorway bridges because your car will dob you in.
The average UK household now has £65,000 of debt. Advertisers are offering to help debtors wipe out over three quarters of the money they owe. I can’t help feeling that the more people who take advantage of this offer the bigger the overall problem will become. If debts go unpaid then someone (or some company) must suffer the loss.
The BBC ran a feature designed to help children convince their parents that global warming is a real threat. (In other words, teaching them how to lie and deceive effectively.) Parents who want to know how to convince their children and simple-minded neighbours that global warming is a myth should read the book Greta’s Homework by Zina Cohen. It’s available on Amazon and it will astonish you.
Massive changes are being made to the countryside. But the people ordering the changes have no idea of the damage they are doing. Some years ago Chairman Mao waged war on small birds because he thought they were eating food intended for humans. He had millions of birds slaughtered in an attempt to eliminate them from China. But sparrows and other small birds eat insects and without the birds the insects had a field day and the crops were devastated. The result was that at least 30 million people died of hunger.
The ill-informed are now terribly excited about hydrogen – regarding it as the new fuel to replace fossil fuels. Billions of dollars are being spent on building new infrastructure for hydrogen. Well, as I have mentioned before there is a bit of a problem with hydrogen: it is made by burning fossil fuels. No one thinks any more, do they?
Here’s a serious question for public debate: Has the BBC killed more people than covid? The advice given about the vaccine by BBC ‘experts’ such as Devi Sridhar, encouraged parents to have their children jabbed with the covid-19 jab – a substance which is, I believe, the most toxic pharmaceutical product ever marketed. The advice is still available online. Why the BBC hasn’t been closed down is a mystery. Please make sure that you do not pay the BBC licence fee (but don’t break the law). Giving money to the BBC is, in my view, as daft as giving money to the World Economic Forum.
We’ve had a flurry of domestic crises recently. Last week, two drains blocked simultaneously and the drain professionals took four days to sort things out. At £185 an hour that was painful. We were, however, happy to pay their bill. It’s nice to have drains. We had spent the previous four days waiting for the insurers we paid for protection to help deal with our problem. They were useless. We’ve cancelled the insurance. The drain people who came diagnosed the problem quite quickly though they had to dig up our courtyard to deal with the tree roots which had caused the problem.
Today, we needed a tree surgeon to look at a once beautiful silver birch which has died (after almost certainly sending its roots into our drainage system) and a plumber to mend a tap which fell off and to remove a leaky radiator from our Victorian central heating system. The first man to arrive turned up just as our groceries were being delivered and I ushered him into the house and asked Antoinette to take him upstairs. Further embarrassment was avoided when, as Antoinette led him through the kitchen, he suddenly stopped and said that he was a tree surgeon and had come to look at a dead tree.
Vast numbers of people who have been diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, or some other form of dementia, could be cured quite quickly if they were taken off the tranquillisers and sleeping tablets they are given. For more information look at my book The Dementia Myth.
Have you noticed that every investment advisor on earth now describes themselves as ‘the man who warned about the 2008 crash’? Funnily enough I don’t remember any of them being around at the time. Indeed, some of those who make this claim were almost certainly still in short trousers at the time.
Interest rates are still far too low to get inflation under control. And if wages (currently growing at 6%) continue to rise then we could soon be heading for the sort of inflation figures usually associated with Argentina, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. And, of course, Germany before WWII. All around the world the current problem with inflation was created when central banks kept printing money and maintained interest rates at or around 0%.
The Labour Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the US used to represent the people usually described as `the workers’. But they don’t any more. Both political parties represent far left wing nutters who believe that climate change is real. They have as much connection with the workers as I have with the jet set.
Banks will only be considered safe from disaster when all customers’ deposits are 100% guaranteed. At the moment the guaranteed limits (which are particularly low in the UK) mean that customers are wary and likely to take their money out of the bank at the slightest sign of trouble. A flurry of scaremongering tweets can destroy a stable bank in hours. The banks deserve this, of course, since they have repeatedly lied, cheated, deceived and helped themselves to money from their customers.
Spending on health care and social security is out of control almost everywhere in the world and the sums being spent will, I fear, have to be cut dramatically.
A heavily promoted drug for slowing the progress of Alzheimer’s disease has been greeted with enthusiasm by journalists who seem unaware that the side effects associated with the drug (donanemab) include brain swelling and bleeding. Three people on the trial of the drug died from these side effects. Still, journalists don’t much like to bother with things like side effects, do they?
Good news in Britain is that Charles, the Great Reset enthusiast, plans to go into politics. That will be the end of the royal family. And good riddance.
Around the world, doctors who questioned the value of lockdowns, masks and the covid-19 jab were treated as insane and forced to see psychiatrists. Shades of old-style Russia.
Anyone who supports NATO’s involvement in the war in Ukraine should be forced to watch ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, directed by Mel Gibson. It’s the third best war film ever made. (After The Dam Busters and Battle of Britain.)
Thanks to the recycling lunacy and the lockdown madness, Britain has been overrun by meddlers and wimps as well as sneaks and snitches. It rained a little recently and since no one in England cleans out ditches or bothers to remove silt and blockages from rivers (leaving them is apparently part of the absurd re-wilding process designed to destroy the countryside and force us all into cardboard flats in cities, ready for the Great Reset) there were floods everywhere and witless fools in hi-vis jackets were having a wonderful time directing the traffic. (Give a man a hi-vis jacket and you immediately turn him or her into a small dictator.) The trouble was that at one point where a stream had breached its banks, the flood was deeper on one side of the road than the other and so the traffic from both directions had to pass through the shallower water. Unfortunately, the idiot in the hi-vis jacket couldn’t count. He allowed 10 vehicles from one direction and then one vehicle from the other direction. The inevitable result was a massive, multi-mile traffic jam. Since rivers and streams are never again going to be cleared properly, and indeed will be blocked by dams built by the beavers the Great Resetters are introducing, there will be floods galore in the future. Building houses on flood plains doesn’t help. All this is being done, of course, to convince us that climate change is real. Whenever there is a flood, the nutters blame global warming even though the floods are a result of deliberate mismanagement. The conclusion is simple: don’t buy a house near water and don’t travel when it’s been raining heavily.
Commentators frequently confuse transsexuals with transvestites. Anyone who wants to know more should read my book Men in Bras, Panties and Dresses, which contains the results of an extensive survey of transvestites/crossdressers. Most cross-dressers are heterosexual and have as much in common with drag queens as Joe Biden has in common with democracy.
The BBC has apologised for including a picture of a white male (not wanted by the police) on its website. ‘The photo just slipped through,’ said a spokesidiot. ‘But thank heavens he wasn’t English. That would have been absolutely unforgiveable.’
Within two years, women will own 60% of the UK’s wealth. (Feministas claim this is because women are brighter. They may be but, sadly, the truth is that it’s because women inherited the money from deceased husbands.)
The average life span is four thousand weeks. We need to make sure that each week counts.
The world gets stranger. In the same week that the woke, climate change nutter known as the Archbishop of Canterbury was fined for speeding I discovered that South Africa has a space agency.
Passing Observations 166
20TH MAY 2023
Within two months of the start of the fake pandemic (back in 2020) it was clear that our greatest threat would come not from the tiny group of people trying to take over the world but from the collaborators who were willing to accept, unquestioningly, the lies they were told. And that is exactly what happened.
In Scotland the authorities have decided that children as young as 12 can consent to take puberty blockers – accepting ‘trans-affirming medical interventions’. Those who are a little older than 12 may have surgery such as a mastectomy. The authorities have decided that a child aged 12 and over is presumed to have sufficient capacity to make decisions about medical treatment. So, although they’re not considered old enough to have sex, vote, drive a car or get married, they are considered old enough to change the shape of their lives. I suspect most people would argue that children of 12 aren’t mature enough to tidy up their bedroom without adult intervention.
It is rumoured that someone in show business has been found not to be suffering from either ADHD or autism. They are said to be very embarrassed and their identity is being protected.
There is, apparently, some dismay in the mainstream media at the fact that the political representative for Edinburgh South West, in Scotland, has been `cancelled’ from a speaking event because she is (and I hope this is the correct term) a gender critical feminist. Apparently junior members of staff didn’t approve of what they thought she would say and so their views had to be respected by cancelling the invitation. The mainstream media pretended to be shocked by this. In fact, the SNP politician was lucky to be invited at all. I, and other doctors who questioned the covid fraud and the effectiveness and safety of the covid jab are banned from everywhere. I’m not only banned from all mainstream media, all around the world, (with newspapers and publishers refusing to publish anything I write) but I’m also banned from all social media – including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and everything else. I was expelled from the Royal Society of Arts for daring to share facts and justified conclusions with my readers. And, of course, my truth-telling videos on YouTube were all deleted. Interviewers who have spoken to me on podcasts and radio programmes have lost their PayPal accounts and been removed from platforms – simply for interviewing me. And on one occasion 17 minutes mysteriously disappeared from a radio interview. Oh and Wikipedia, the ersatz encyclopaedia, described as corrupt by one of its founders, cut out all my achievements (lists of books, TV programmes, etc.) and filled its page about me with lies and garbage which were then shared and disseminated by the evil Google. (An amateur editor decided that I was a discredited conspiracy theorist.) No one in the mainstream media gives a toss about any of this deliberately designed mixture of suppression, censorship, oppression and demonisation. Ironically, if I had ignored the lies being told about covid, and merely spoken out about transgender issues, I would have been banned but everyone would have been dismayed and my views would have been given more publicity than they might otherwise have received. Let us please have less of this nonsense about people being ‘cancelled’ just because they can’t speak at one or two particular events or just because they have a tweet or a video deleted.
Nothing illustrates the decline of the GP more than the way GPs now refuse to do work which they seem to regard as beneath them. GPs no longer take blood pressures, take blood samples, stitch wounds, remove stitches or syringe ears. And in many practices even the nurses refuse to do these things – preferring to leave them to less well trained members of staff. (In hospital, nurses consider themselves far too important to plump up pillows, soothe the sick, care for people, do nursing, put flowers in vases or feed patients. Since auxiliaries and porters aren’t allowed to touch patients, these things are left undone and patients starve to death.) My good friend Dr Colin Barron tells me, incidentally, that although doctors and nurses now refuse to remove ear wax (it is, I assume, regarded as beneath them or maybe they are all just too busy giving vaccinations) there are now private clinics which will perform this task. He tells me that some opticians now provide this service for around £55. Dr Colin Barron also points out that patients with eye problems are now supposed to visit an optician and not a doctor. ‘This is quite a good idea,’ he says. He points out that: ‘opticians are better at looking at eyes than most GPs as they have better training and equipment. Most GPs only have handheld ophthalmoscopes which are useless for diagnosing a lot of conditions. Opticians now know how to use slit lamps and have sophisticated scanning equipment.’ As always, excellent advice from Dr Barron who, at one point in his varied and distinguished career, was a Registrar in Ophthalmology.
We know that drug interactions are a major cause of illness. But no one has ever checked to see if it is safe to give dozens of different vaccines to infants and small children. How many million infants and children have been killed or injured by approved vaccination programmes? No one knows. And no one will ever know. However, governments have paid out billions (yes billions) of dollars in damages to vaccine damaged individuals.
There will be no room for pets in the Great Reset. All pets (cats and dogs and budgerigars) will be destroyed. The changes will take place slowly. At first there will be more rules about where dogs can walk, how much licences will cost, when dogs should be muzzled or on the lead and so on. And then, the number of dog bites will be quoted as a reason for eliminating pets completely. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Plans have been approved in England for a 15 storey tower block for women only. Men will only be allowed to live in the block if they become a tenant’s partner. Transgendered women will be allowed in but transgendered men will not. And crossdressers will not be allowed in the building. How can any of this be legal?
Investors’ Chronicle magazine dealt with an investment query from a 28-year-old junior doctor. The doctor was earning £55,000, had a flat in London worth £425,000 and no mortgage. He had £96,000 in a savings account, £10,000 in an investment account and £2,000 cash. He wanted to buy a house in London for one million pounds and a cottage in the West Country. As British readers will know junior doctors have recently been on strike for a 35% pay rise.
We, in England, should take heart from the fact that in the last few years we defeated the Government’s attempt to force us to accept Regional Authorities, the Government’s attempt to force us to carry identity cards and the Government’s attempt to force house owners to have expensive and intrusive and useless surveys done on their homes. All those victories were over Tony Blair and a Labour Government.
Why and how doctors kill more people than cancer
20TH MAY 2023
Several decades ago I used mortality figures to prove that doctors were one of the top three causes of death (along with circulatory disease and cancer). My conclusion was widely scorned at the time but now you’d be hard pressed to find a doctor who didn’t agree that I was right.
Today, I’m afraid that the number of deaths caused by doctors is going up rapidly and doctors have for some time killed more people than cancer. Indeed, I strongly suspect that doctors are now the major cause of death in the western world – especially if vaccine deaths are included.
For a variety of reasons, some complex and some simple, modern, State-run health care is beyond repair and now kills more people than it saves.
Health care is changing at a phenomenal rate.
Governments are closing small hospitals and casualty departments and concentrating services in bigger and bigger hospitals. (This is being done to please the EU whose bureaucrats believe that big is beautiful and bigger is even more beautiful). Patients who need a GP are being told to telephone for advice rather than to visit the surgery. (The excuse for this is that it will save the planet by reducing the use of petrol). Patients who are injured in accidents are told to telephone ahead and get permission in advance if they think they need to be seen in a casualty department. This may all sound bizarre. But it's true.
Today, medicine is all about making money and the people who work in State-run health care are more driven by the urge to make as much of it as possible than the people working in the so-called private sector. The problems are not new. Back in July 2011, an official UK report announced that NHS managers were deliberately delaying operations in the hope that patients would remove themselves from the waiting lists `either by dying or by paying for their own treatment'. The report from the Cooperation and Competition Panel said that this tactic was one of a number used by NHS managers. At the same time GPs were being told that they were restricted in the number of referrals they could make. After threatening to collapse for years, the NHS was at last crumbling apart; aided and abetted, it has to be said, by avaricious staff members as much as incompetence.
The big issues are ignored and suppressed and those who raise them are dismissed as lunatics, heretics or fanatics. Anyone who dares to spread the truth, or raise questions, will be subjected to smear campaigns. Our liberty and our freedom of speech have been strangled by cross party consensus and an obedient media. Politicians and commentators concentrate their efforts on narrow, specific questions. The big questions, the important questions, are never asked. And so, not surprisingly, no answers are forthcoming either.
The world’s best known and longest established State-run medical service, Britain’s NHS, now consists of layers of administration dedicated to deceit and committed to the principle of belligerent distortion of the truth; it practises (and is the world’s best exponent of) institutionalised deception. Everything in medicine is now about money. The system exists not to protect us but to protect itself. Politicians protect the NHS because they dare not destroy it. Doctors, nurses (and other NHS workers) protect it because it protects them, feeds them and makes some of them (actually, a good many of them) exceedingly rich without their having to work too hard. This is what happens in a burgeoning fascist State. The NHS is run by incompetent people who never question their competence and so do not recognise their shortcomings. Discussions about health care never touch the real problems. Big issues (such as `Should there be an NHS?') are considered politically unacceptable so everyone involved just tinkers around the edges of the problem. No one likes to admit that the NHS is dangerous to our health or that hospitals should have a health warning hanging over their doors. The NHS stumbles along: a headless, directionless monster, kept alive by summer fetes and bring-and-by sales where local do-gooders gather together to raise cash to buy scalpels, bedpans and new bed linen. The innocent, the naive and the well-meaning fundraisers don’t realise that every penny donated protects the corrupt system and keep the whole sorry mess alive. In spirit the NHS died years ago. The shambling, disorganised, corrupt organisation which survives is a marriage between State and consumer which long ago fell apart; destroyed by the trusting naivety of the one partner and the reckless, short-sighted greed of the other. Doctors and nurses have (like long stay patients) become institutionalised. They accept everything and question nothing. They have sold their souls to the State. The NHS now kills more people than it saves. No one gives a damn about patients any more. There is no longer any such thing as a `public service' ethos among employees.
Over a decade ago I wrote that my fear was that everything would continue to get worse. And it is. Today, medical students and young nurses are being taught within a system which is geared towards defending administrators and drug companies and wherein patients are regarded (if they are regarded at all) as a nuisance. Staff are not allowed to listen to anyone (such as me) offering a realistic, honest view of what is going wrong. Doctors would much rather sweep the problems under the carpet than have the problems exposed, threatening their cosy existence.
Any system which cannot cope with real criticism is corrupt.
Now I know why my cocktail hour is getting longer!! I’ll take a cocktail over an anti-depressant anytime!
"...Ukraine mess has borne an uncanny resemblance to the Vietnam mess..."
Indeed. And when the USSR invaded Afghanistan that too was compared to Viet Nam. The movie's title changes but the screenplay remains the same.
Passing Observations 165
17TH MAY 2023
New cars will tell the authorities where the driver started his journey, what places he visited, what speeds he did (and where) and so and so on. There will be no need for speed cameras or for policemen to sit in cars on motorway bridges because your car will dob you in.
The average UK household now has £65,000 of debt. Advertisers are offering to help debtors wipe out over three quarters of the money they owe. I can’t help feeling that the more people who take advantage of this offer the bigger the overall problem will become. If debts go unpaid then someone (or some company) must suffer the loss.
The BBC ran a feature designed to help children convince their parents that global warming is a real threat. (In other words, teaching them how to lie and deceive effectively.) Parents who want to know how to convince their children and simple-minded neighbours that global warming is a myth should read the book Greta’s Homework by Zina Cohen. It’s available on Amazon and it will astonish you.
Massive changes are being made to the countryside. But the people ordering the changes have no idea of the damage they are doing. Some years ago Chairman Mao waged war on small birds because he thought they were eating food intended for humans. He had millions of birds slaughtered in an attempt to eliminate them from China. But sparrows and other small birds eat insects and without the birds the insects had a field day and the crops were devastated. The result was that at least 30 million people died of hunger.
The ill-informed are now terribly excited about hydrogen – regarding it as the new fuel to replace fossil fuels. Billions of dollars are being spent on building new infrastructure for hydrogen. Well, as I have mentioned before there is a bit of a problem with hydrogen: it is made by burning fossil fuels. No one thinks any more, do they?
Here’s a serious question for public debate: Has the BBC killed more people than covid? The advice given about the vaccine by BBC ‘experts’ such as Devi Sridhar, encouraged parents to have their children jabbed with the covid-19 jab – a substance which is, I believe, the most toxic pharmaceutical product ever marketed. The advice is still available online. Why the BBC hasn’t been closed down is a mystery. Please make sure that you do not pay the BBC licence fee (but don’t break the law). Giving money to the BBC is, in my view, as daft as giving money to the World Economic Forum.
We’ve had a flurry of domestic crises recently. Last week, two drains blocked simultaneously and the drain professionals took four days to sort things out. At £185 an hour that was painful. We were, however, happy to pay their bill. It’s nice to have drains. We had spent the previous four days waiting for the insurers we paid for protection to help deal with our problem. They were useless. We’ve cancelled the insurance. The drain people who came diagnosed the problem quite quickly though they had to dig up our courtyard to deal with the tree roots which had caused the problem.
Today, we needed a tree surgeon to look at a once beautiful silver birch which has died (after almost certainly sending its roots into our drainage system) and a plumber to mend a tap which fell off and to remove a leaky radiator from our Victorian central heating system. The first man to arrive turned up just as our groceries were being delivered and I ushered him into the house and asked Antoinette to take him upstairs. Further embarrassment was avoided when, as Antoinette led him through the kitchen, he suddenly stopped and said that he was a tree surgeon and had come to look at a dead tree.
Vast numbers of people who have been diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, or some other form of dementia, could be cured quite quickly if they were taken off the tranquillisers and sleeping tablets they are given. For more information look at my book The Dementia Myth.
Have you noticed that every investment advisor on earth now describes themselves as ‘the man who warned about the 2008 crash’? Funnily enough I don’t remember any of them being around at the time. Indeed, some of those who make this claim were almost certainly still in short trousers at the time.
Interest rates are still far too low to get inflation under control. And if wages (currently growing at 6%) continue to rise then we could soon be heading for the sort of inflation figures usually associated with Argentina, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. And, of course, Germany before WWII. All around the world the current problem with inflation was created when central banks kept printing money and maintained interest rates at or around 0%.
The Labour Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the US used to represent the people usually described as `the workers’. But they don’t any more. Both political parties represent far left wing nutters who believe that climate change is real. They have as much connection with the workers as I have with the jet set.
Banks will only be considered safe from disaster when all customers’ deposits are 100% guaranteed. At the moment the guaranteed limits (which are particularly low in the UK) mean that customers are wary and likely to take their money out of the bank at the slightest sign of trouble. A flurry of scaremongering tweets can destroy a stable bank in hours. The banks deserve this, of course, since they have repeatedly lied, cheated, deceived and helped themselves to money from their customers.
Spending on health care and social security is out of control almost everywhere in the world and the sums being spent will, I fear, have to be cut dramatically.
A heavily promoted drug for slowing the progress of Alzheimer’s disease has been greeted with enthusiasm by journalists who seem unaware that the side effects associated with the drug (donanemab) include brain swelling and bleeding. Three people on the trial of the drug died from these side effects. Still, journalists don’t much like to bother with things like side effects, do they?
Good news in Britain is that Charles, the Great Reset enthusiast, plans to go into politics. That will be the end of the royal family. And good riddance.
Around the world, doctors who questioned the value of lockdowns, masks and the covid-19 jab were treated as insane and forced to see psychiatrists. Shades of old-style Russia.
Anyone who supports NATO’s involvement in the war in Ukraine should be forced to watch ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, directed by Mel Gibson. It’s the third best war film ever made. (After The Dam Busters and Battle of Britain.)
Thanks to the recycling lunacy and the lockdown madness, Britain has been overrun by meddlers and wimps as well as sneaks and snitches. It rained a little recently and since no one in England cleans out ditches or bothers to remove silt and blockages from rivers (leaving them is apparently part of the absurd re-wilding process designed to destroy the countryside and force us all into cardboard flats in cities, ready for the Great Reset) there were floods everywhere and witless fools in hi-vis jackets were having a wonderful time directing the traffic. (Give a man a hi-vis jacket and you immediately turn him or her into a small dictator.) The trouble was that at one point where a stream had breached its banks, the flood was deeper on one side of the road than the other and so the traffic from both directions had to pass through the shallower water. Unfortunately, the idiot in the hi-vis jacket couldn’t count. He allowed 10 vehicles from one direction and then one vehicle from the other direction. The inevitable result was a massive, multi-mile traffic jam. Since rivers and streams are never again going to be cleared properly, and indeed will be blocked by dams built by the beavers the Great Resetters are introducing, there will be floods galore in the future. Building houses on flood plains doesn’t help. All this is being done, of course, to convince us that climate change is real. Whenever there is a flood, the nutters blame global warming even though the floods are a result of deliberate mismanagement. The conclusion is simple: don’t buy a house near water and don’t travel when it’s been raining heavily.
Commentators frequently confuse transsexuals with transvestites. Anyone who wants to know more should read my book Men in Bras, Panties and Dresses, which contains the results of an extensive survey of transvestites/crossdressers. Most cross-dressers are heterosexual and have as much in common with drag queens as Joe Biden has in common with democracy.
The BBC has apologised for including a picture of a white male (not wanted by the police) on its website. ‘The photo just slipped through,’ said a spokesidiot. ‘But thank heavens he wasn’t English. That would have been absolutely unforgiveable.’
Within two years, women will own 60% of the UK’s wealth. (Feministas claim this is because women are brighter. They may be but, sadly, the truth is that it’s because women inherited the money from deceased husbands.)
The average life span is four thousand weeks. We need to make sure that each week counts.
The world gets stranger. In the same week that the woke, climate change nutter known as the Archbishop of Canterbury was fined for speeding I discovered that South Africa has a space agency.
Hey, Eddie! I'm having to unsubscribe for a time, got a computer "virus" and can't keep up with all the email from doing this from the library!
Will try to get back into the "swing" and then I'll resubscribe. xo