Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 67
April 21, 2020
An attempt to grapple with figures on the Covid crisis (warning, no conclusion). Revised 21st April 2020
REVISED 21st April 2020
I originally posted this on the 16th April. New Office for National Statistics figures, succinctly summatruised bny the BBC;'s diligent and careful Nick Triggle here,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52361519
do not in my view alter the position.
He reported : '
'The Office for National Statistics said there were 18,500 deaths in the week up to 10 April - about 8,000 more than is normal at this time of year.
More than 6,200 were linked to...
I used to think Juries were a safeguard for liberty and justice. Now I am not so sure
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/04/the-decline-of-the-jury
Some readers may be interested in the above link to an article in 'First Things'
April 20, 2020
April 18, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: Have five weeks of mad lockdown panic actually done us good?
This is Peter Hitchens's column for the Mail on Sunday
I find it incredible that it is now five weeks since I wrote here: ���We have gone quite mad. I know that many people are thinking this, but dare not say so. I will be accused of all kinds of terrible things for taking this view ��� but that is another aspect of how crazy things are.���
I said we had got our policy on Covid-19 out of proportion.
I said the worst effect of the Government���s behaviour was to savage the economy by...
April 17, 2020
Professor Sucharit Bhakdi's open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel
A reader has asked for an English version of thus open letter, which sets out the proportionate attitude towards the Covid crisis very well. It can be reached with all links and footnotes by following this link
Here it is:
'Dear Chancellor,
As Emeritus of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and longtime director of the Institute for Medical...
April 16, 2020
An attempt to gather some facts on the present state of the Covid-19 crisis. Warning: no conclusion
What are we to make of the latest figures on deaths, Covid-19 or otherwise?
I do not know, and offer the collection of facts and speculations below for the interest, additions, corrections and comments of readers. I welcome all intelligent comment and response.
For my own benefit I have tried to assemble what we do know in one place. Having done so, I can only really recommend continued study. Nothing (in my view) has yet happened to fully vindicate or destroy any position.
...
April 15, 2020
An appearance in Channel 4 News, in debate with Joan Bakewell - available for a few hours only
Slowly, slowly, I am swimming back towards the mainstream., or the mainstream is moving closer to me. From exile, via Piers Morgan, Talk Radio and Sky News, I last night reached Channel Four news, to take part in this abbreviated debate with Lady Bakewell (it was recorded and edited) 47 minutes into this:
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/channel-4-news/on-demand/70927-105
April 13, 2020
A second conversation with Mike Graham on Talk Radio on the Covid controversy
Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QqKEvN-6F0&feature=youtu.be
is my renewed conversation with Mike Graham on the Covid-19 controversy, part one was a week ago.
April 11, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: Matt Hancock is trying to run the UK like my 1950s prep school
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column.
Until I started travelling in the Communist world, my main experience of living under tyranny was my time at a boarding school on the edge of Dartmoor, 60 years ago.
The headmaster, an enormous, booming man, had many fine qualities. But he was given to dreadful rages, which tended to strike late on Saturday afternoons.
He would throb with fury because some of the more loutish boys had left their games clothes on the changing room floor....
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