want to explain my position as expressed (or politely, amicably explained) to local authorities.

Animals need water and food, more so in summertime. Especially the water. Water is life, life is water. We bought several stainless steel bowls to nourish the local cats, dogs, birds, and occasionally other animals. We change the water at least once a day to ensure it’s never stagnant. The government and the media actively encourage doing so, more so when there are heatwaves.

In dry places, animals tend to hang out not far from water. It’s an instinctive tendency.

For over a year we had birds in our back yard. This year, to appease thin-skinned people, we moved them to the front, to a public space, an open space with lots of grass and trees.

The queens and kings of Britain have protected wild birds, which they saw as almost equal to humans. The government encouraged people to offer food to birds, e.g. in their back gardens. And because as a society we are governed by rules, not by men, what matters is policy. What it boils down to is the universal rule, so I checked the official .gov sites, just to ensure we feed the birds correctly while complying with whatever it says there.

Over time we reduced the frequency of the feeding (we try to buy them the best seeds available), but not the quantity (once day in large quantities instead of 10-20 times a day in smaller doses), which is fine as long as more people do this. Our neighbours feed them and like them, but there is a resistance from one very malicious couple that does drugs in the back yard, forcing other people to inhale bad stuff for over a decade already. Apparently the birds are “dirty”, but drugs being smoked is not. I recently saw articles about bans on bird-feeding in India (specifically in Mumbai), despite such bans being highly immoral, resulting in actual hunger strikes, albeit mostly by Jains.

We need to resist people who hate and antagonise wild animals, more so knowing that the animals cannot speak to humans (for themselves) and they have feelings too. An act of resistance, wherein you protect the lives of non-human creatures, is nothing to be ashamed of or afraid of.

The pretext that bird-feeding will attract vermin is not supported by any evidence and it also discriminates against some particular animals, who do no harm. If policy changes are to be made, then evidence is needed. While policies remain unchanged it’s not OK to apply any on an ad hoc, improvised basis. When council workers issue contradictory instructions, it then necessarily means somebody is lying.

New ONS data came out this morning (in Microsoft’s proprietary format, as usual). 9,867 England and Wales deaths in Week 13 of 2019 compared to 11,241 in the same week this year.

It’s like this almost every week, including the prior week (12). I check this every Wednesday (for years already).

Is it OK to ask my government what has caused this very sharp increase?

Does it make one a “crank” for asking?

HIS morning’s new numbers look like this:

It may not seem like that says very much until one checks pre-COVID-19 numbers for the same timespan. It was 11,660 in 2019 and about the same for prior years (average of 2014-2019).

2019

2025

Almost 10,000 more deaths in about a month.

In week 5 of 2019 we had just over 11k deaths in England in Wales.

Now, in 2025, in week 5 we had 13,712 deaths. That’s nearly 14k.

Last week we saw similar increases.

Compare to 2019 (before COVID-19):

So we’re looking at almost 2,000 additional deaths (for a single week)…. more than before.

Maybe it’s over 2,000 if one includes Scotland and Northern Ireland.

N THIS 2024 page updated less than a day ago we see data that the mainstream media would rather ignore.

New ONS data released yesterday morning shows that in England and Wales we had 11,950 dead people… just in Week 50 (2024). Before COVID-19 it was about 10.5k for Week 50. So we’re losing about 1,500 more people (than before) in one week in England and Wales alone.

This isn’t about very old people. People in all age groups die in growing numbers.

Why is the media ignoring this? The population grew 1-2%, so an increase so significant merits investigation and hard questions.

DID not imagine the Labour Party would challenge COVID-19 policies of the Tories. I was right, that just didn’t happen.

Now we have like 50,000 more people than before dying each year in England and Wales. Cause? Unknown. They don’t want to talk about it, let alone investigate.

New ONS data is out today (about mortality). In England and Wales, for Week 49 of 2024, deaths rose ~1000 people/week (compared to pre-pandemic times). Same is true for Week 48, Week 47, and Week 46 (maybe a bit less, no less than 800-900/week). They say they’ve “solved” COVID-19 but after mass vaccination we end up with about 10% more deaths than before the pandemic, even in late 2024. I checked this every week on Wednesday, i.e. every time they updated data. The population size only rose by 1-2%, why did deaths rise by about 10%?

How do they expect people to trust authorities (and the press) if they keep gaslighting the public about this?

After scandals (cover-ups) like the tainted blood and Horizon, why should we assume there’s nothing more to see here? When will more be known? 40 years from now?

Does the Labour Party plan to investigate the cause/s for this sharp rise in deaths?