A Very Lumpy Carpet – It Is All Stunned Mullets

It is been apparent recently that an awful lot of what we were told by the powers that be has turned out to be – to put it mildly – not really true.

• We were told that the mRNA vaccines would stop us getting Covid, and would prevent transmission. In fact, neither of these turned out to be true.[1]

• We were told we had to stay at home, and wear masks, to stop us getting Covid. We now know that both of these were completely useless. Well, worse than useless, actually. By quite a bit.

• We were told that shutting down our traditional power stations in favour of wind turbines and solar panels would give us cheaper electricity. In fact, the evidence from all over the world has turned out to be the exact opposite; it makes electricity much, much more expensive. And, for that matter, much less reliable.

• For years, we have been told that the Arctic polar ice cap is just about to melt away as we experience runaway global warming. Instead, the Arctic polar ice cap has not melted away at all; it is the same size as normal. And both Greenland and Antarctica have been getting colder (this matters, because these are the places that are supposed to drown us when the ice melts);

Lucy Letby is Innocent

Since I am in a predicting sort of mood, allow me another prediction. The Lucy Letby case will, in the end, lead to her pardon. It will become increasingly apparent that her conviction was wholly unsafe, the evidence against her being entirely circumstantial and hopelessly flawed, and it will become a political necessity to relieve her of her whole life sentence. Given all the publicity, a retrial is impossible. And so a pardon it will be. It will go down in history as the greatest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.

Let us start with why so many people already think she is innocent. Some of these people, like the eminent Dr Michael Hall, were present throughout pretty much all of the trial. Others like the politician Sir David Davis have studied the evidence in great detail. These people are pretty certain of Lucy Letby’s innocence. Others, like Peter Hitchens, refuse to be drawn on that, but merely say that they are sure that the conviction is unsafe. These people have no axe to grind in favour of Lucy Letby. Rather, they have looked at the evidence. All of the evidence against Lucy Letby was circumstantial. Nobody saw her harm any of the babies. It is all just inference. The fact is that a number of babies died. More than usual in a neonatal unit. There are at least a couple of explanations. One is that Lucy Letby is a serial murderer. Another is that this was a poorly performing hospital. In the absence of any direct evidence, one has to draw an inference. Which is more likely here? The overwhelming preponderance of expert evidence, as it has now emerged, is that this was a poorly performing hospital.