I HAVE shown a little of the history in last week’s piece as to how organised humanity can help with thought and science to limit human suffering and death, writes Doctor David Halpin.

Since its inception, OUR NHS could have done much better both in science and thought. I have written already of the failure to educate the people of the UK in enhancing and preserving their health. There has been good action as against smoking, the Clean Air Act, seat belts, lead free petrol etc. But in general, health has declined just as body weight in many has gone upwards.

Compare the fitness of our population in say 1939, as it stood alone against elemental evil, with the British population as it is now.

I easily recall coming home on a summer’s day from school aged 10, and after a Cadbury’s tin of sandwiches were made, our Mum running down with my three younger siblings and me to the gold of Canford Cliffs’ beach.

Now the car, the cell phone and the supermarket dominate.

Thought and science serving fellow humans should have an entirely benign base. It should come from goodness and that foundation stone of civilisation ‘love thy neighbour’. The often criminal governments that have dominated the UK for decades have failed in this, the ‘parties’ combining to aid destruction of individual will just as they have supported the corporations including those manufacturing death weapons. (BTW – I am not a pacifist – I would have fought against the Nazis if I had been 20 years older).

They have engaged in wars and policies eg ‘sanctions’ which have killed, maimed and starved millions. Take the war on Iraq under Blair from March 2003, supported by the parties in ‘opposition’. Take the first Gulf War, the invasion of Kuwait supported by the US, and its slaughter of civilians and conscripts fleeing Kuwait. And think of the thousands and thousands of Iraqi children dying in early childhood of disease and malnutrition as a result of the most vicious sanctions imposed by the victors – the US, UK and France, with the latter withdrawing.

And what of the UN in all this? Dominated by the US, with its headquarters in NY?

I do not read the ‘national’ newspapers nor view the ‘news’ on the BBC etc. The latter corporation, its motto ironically ‘Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation’, I call the State Broadcaster. (Search BBC on ‘david halpin surgeon’ - 52 references, and these the minority of my attempts in urging it to tell the truth!)

Some of you readers would have noted my opposition to that which flowed from Her Majesty’s Government in March 2020 following the news first of an outbreak of disease due to an 'engineered’ corona virus 12-12-2019. Newspapers and broadcasters should not be megaphones for what I call propagandare nero.

They must, even in an attempted democracy, speak truth and report diversity of opinion. It is to the great credit of the MDA and its editors that it cleaves to this almost sacred principle.

It published my letters and opinion pieces, whilst it also printed what I call bluntly and derisively the prop nero. What is my evidence for my charges?

This quotes Russia Today. Yes Russia Today. There will be some bias but its reporting of world affairs, including much happening in Britain, is well researched, referenced and written.

5 Mar, 2023 12:16 ‘Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” to ensure compliance with the government’s Covid-19 restrictions, a trove of leaked text messages has revealed.

‘More than 100,000 text messages were leaked to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Among them is a purported exchange between Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in which Case suggested in January 2021 that “fear” would be a “vital” factor in ensuring UK citizens’ compliance with Covid restrictions.’

I had told the readers of the MDA, I believe, that the need to inculcate fear in order to promote ‘lock down’, masking and later unnecessary inoculation of so called vaccines which had not undergone two year trials, was minuted in the SAGE committee in April 2020.

A key figure sat in on these meetings. His name is David Halpern PhD. He heads the ‘Nudge Unit’ or more officially ‘The Behavioural Insights Team’ and its 50 or more graduates of ‘Unis’, plus the usual IT automatons. It has the closest connections with government, our rulers, and was in No 10. But it outgrew that both in personnel and importance, so it is now in the less glamorous Victoria Street.

There is a similar unit, skilled in mass psychology, in the US with the same title. You might not be familiar with the name – Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud. Between the two World Wars his influence on the American mass mind was massive. You can bet that my near namesake had Bernays under his belt. The four-hourly films made by Adam Curtis ‘The Century of the Self’ BBC! can be viewed on line.

They should be on all secondary school syllabi.

As a medical student I was dissecting a corpse in 1959 with two others (one a good friend and a retired anaesthetist, the other dead with liver disease due to alcohol). I will dissect C19 next week