The Problem With the Covid Inquiry’s Claim That the Vaccines “Saved 475,000 UK Lives”

The Problem With the Covid Inquiry’s Claim That the Vaccines “Saved 475,000 UK Lives”

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 4 report, published this week, claims that 475,000 lives were saved by vaccination in England and Scotland. A further 7,000 are attributed to Wales. These figures are presented as findings. They are not findings. They are the outputs of a WHO model.

The inquiry itself has already identified this as a problem in a different context.

In its Module 2 report, Baroness Hallett found that scenarios were wrongly treated as forecasts, that ministers failed to grasp the distinction and that the reasonable worst-case scenario was what Professor Whitty called a “slippery concept”. The inquiry recommended multiple scenario planning precisely to guard against treating a single modelled worst case as a prediction.

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Surrey traffic stop leads to major fentanyl, cocaine and meth seizure; foreign student arrested

Surrey traffic stop leads to major fentanyl, cocaine and meth seizure; foreign student arrested

A proactive traffic stop in Surrey has resulted in one of the region’s latest significant drug seizures, with more than three kilograms of illicit substances taken off the street and two individuals arrested, according to the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia.

On March 24, officers with the CFSEU-BC Uniform Gang Enforcement Team (UGET) conducted the stop as part of ongoing efforts targeting organized crime and street-level trafficking networks.

(Incognito)

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Christians, Muslims, and the Truth About ‘Interfaith Dialogue’

Christians, Muslims, and the Truth About ‘Interfaith Dialogue’

In a passionate speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II issued a call for the First Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim occupation. “Deus vult!” the cry went up from the assembled crowd. “God wills it!” And Christendom responded.

That was a different era. Today the West is no longer Christendom but a secular civilization in decline and undergoing an accelerating capitulation to Islamic imperialism. Instead of a Pope Urban II rallying the Church Militant in defense of the faith, we are saddled with a pacifist Pope Leo XIV calling for “interfaith dialogue” and “communion” between Christianity and the Islamic ideology that is, both historically and currently, an existential enemy of Western civilization.

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Defence Department Says It Doesn’t Track Staff’s Antifa Involvement, Cites Lack of Clear Definition

Defence Department Says It Doesn’t Track Staff’s Antifa Involvement, Cites Lack of Clear Definition

The Department of National Defence (DND) says it does not centrally track Antifa involvement among members of the Canadian Armed Forces or its employees, saying there is no “common definition” of the movement.

In an April 13 response to an order paper question by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, the DND said it does “in-depth screenings” to identify past records of extremism or hateful conduct but does not “centrally track involvement with Antifa in its human resources systems.”

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Meghan Markle is Dame Edna without the laughs

Meghan Markle is Dame Edna without the laughs

The InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach is a five-star hotel and doubtless very nice indeed. But the moment I heard the name of the place where Meghan Markle planned to hold her ‘girls’ weekend like no other’ – ‘a very small event for 300 women… a fireside chat with Meghan’, hosted by the podcast, Her Best Life – one great and much-missed shero came to mind: Dame Edna Everage.


Poor Harry, should have listened to Grandma and Grandpa.

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Bryan Brulotte: The CBC needs reform, not reverence

Bryan Brulotte: The CBC needs reform, not reverence

The debate over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has become predictable. One side defends it as a pillar of national identity. The other calls for its outright defunding. Both positions miss the point. The CBC does not need to be preserved in its current form. Nor should it be dismantled entirely. What it requires is structural change rooted in first principles — clarity of purpose, fiscal discipline, and service to Canadians that the private market cannot or will not provide.

“Alternate link”

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Pentagon accused of ‘cover-up’ after failing to release UFO videos by deadline

Pentagon accused of ‘cover-up’ after failing to release UFO videos by deadline

The US Pentagon has been slammed for missing a strict deadline to release Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) videos, with critics calling it a ‘cover-up.’

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna penned a letter to the US Secretary of Defense on April 1, ordering Pete Hegseth to deliver 46 specific clips no later than April 14, 2026.

Lawmakers said the videos could reveal patterns of activity near sensitive military sites and help determine whether the objects pose a potential national security threat.


Michael Shellenberger: The Government Knows More Than It’s Telling Us

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Ontario moves to ‘diversify’ MAiD committee with pro-MAiD members

Ontario moves to ‘diversify’ MAiD committee with pro-MAiD members

Ontario’s MAiD Death Review Committee (MDRC), which reviews and evaluates MAiD deaths in the province, is planning on making its committee “diverse” with fewer members.

This is according to the Ontario Solicitor General, Michael Kerzner, who says the committee will be shrunk by half, from 16 to eight members, and will include “diverse viewpoints,” as the Globe and Mail reports, based on documents dated early April it obtained.

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Scamming the West: What’s really behind the UN’s ahistorical transatlantic slavery resolution

Scamming the West: What’s really behind the UN’s ahistorical transatlantic slavery resolution

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.”

Why focus just on the transatlantic slave trade? Because the United Nations is engaged in a long-running con to extract reparations from the West by accusing it, and specifically the United States, of perpetrating the most nefarious crime in history.

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Joly credits immigrants for Terrebonne victory as Liberals targets African immigrants

Joly credits immigrants for Terrebonne victory as Liberals targets African immigrants

OTTAWA — Liberal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly pointed to changing demographics following her party’s performance in the Terrebonne byelection, as new figures show Ottawa has spent millions promoting immigration from French-speaking countries abroad.

“Very important community from Haiti, also from northern Africa… things are changing across the country,” Joly said when asked about the result.

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Will all of Europe soon be a no-go wasteland?

Will all of Europe soon be a no-go wasteland?

Artificial intelligence is not necessary. Just turn on French TV.

Interviewer on street: “Is this neighborhood of Marseille peaceful?”

A left-wing woman: “Yes, peaceful and diverse, we live in peace.”

Suddenly a guy appears on the street threatening a French man because he is smoking during Ramadan, saying that “it is haram and provocative.”

A scene like this live on TV cannot be invented.

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Trudeau can live his post-political life however he wants, but it will invariably reflect on his time in office

Trudeau can live his post-political life however he wants, but it will invariably reflect on his time in office

George W. Bush took up painting when he left the Oval Office in 2009. In 2014, he unveiled his first public exhibit, entitled “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy,” which featured portraits of world leaders he met during his time in office.

The whole thing was sort of … odd.


Junior has a very tiny brain but a very large ego.

(Note this is a repost for test purposes.)

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It’s Time to Rethink NATO

It’s Time to Rethink NATO

NATO won the Cold War—but clinging to it now drains U.S. power from the Indo-Pacific, where the real contest for the future is unfolding.

It has been nearly 80 years since the guns fell silent in World War II. In that long arc of peace, the United States helped rebuild a shattered Europe, deter Soviet expansion, and anchor what we now call the transatlantic alliance. Those were noble achievements. They mattered. They still echo in the prosperity and stability of the Western world today.

But history is not a life sentence. And gratitude, while virtuous, is not a strategy.

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