Liverpool Care Pathway - Reports And Reports Of Reports

This is election year... and they are all so busily picking up pointers they are actually missing the point.



When a policy model is rolled out as a national programme its effects cannot be ultimately calculated but must become compounded and, like dominoes toppling, will effect unforeseen outcomes.

In this report in The Independent, they are busily picking up pointers for the pundits to raise as campaign issues.

The dominoes are toppling but the pennies haven’t dropped...

Health officials are investigating a “statistically significant, sustained” decline in life expectancy among elderly people in some parts of England, amid warnings that cuts to social care and pressures on the NHS may be contributing to earlier deaths.

Public Health England said it was scrutinising life expectancy trends following an alert from a council in the North-west of England warning it was “likely” that in many parts of the region “older people (over 85) are no longer living longer”.

Public Health England said it was scrutinising life expectancy trends following an alert from a council in the North-west of England warning it was “likely” that in many parts of the region “older people (over 85) are no longer living longer”.

An email from Blackburn with Darwen Council’s director of public health, Dominic Harrison, sent to regional colleagues and to Public Health England, said the council had seen a “sustained reduction” in life expectancy at 85 in its area. “Actual sustained cohort reductions in life expectancy such as this are now extremely unusual,” the email says.

They have foraged some windfalls for the hustings. The Independent headlines -

Fall in life expectancy raises alarm amid fears that cuts and pressure on NHS may be to blame for earlier deaths

But the devil is in the detail:

Dr John Middleton, vice-president of the Faculty of Public Health, said that a decline in life expectancy at any age was a matter of concern and should be investigated.

“We’ve enjoyed improvements in life expectancy over many years and there’s nothing to guarantee that improvement goes on forever,” he said. “It is something that is a sentinel moment in public health terms if the trend of upward improvement does stop.”

This is nothing new. Readers of these pages will have read this here before. What is going on?

A 'decline in life expectancy' is another way of saying excess deaths.

More excess deaths...

Excess deaths: again, the Kraken wakes.

It has been reported in these pages how newspapers and political interest groups will report the news to suit their own particular perspective.

Joining up the dots, they conclude cuts but you have to join all the dots.

1,400 excess deaths at Mid Staffs...

1,600 excess deaths at Basildon and Thurrock...

United Lincolnshire plus The Dudley Group plus George Eliot plus Northern Lincolnshire and Goole plus Tameside plus Sherwood Forest plus Colchester plus Medway plus Burton plus North Cumbria plus East Lancashire plus Buckinghamshire Healthcare equals 13,000 excess deaths since 2005...

Nobody held to account, nobody disciplined...

The BBC reported –

"Missing..."

130,000 LCP deaths a year...

How many of those 130,000 would have lived on to make up the missing numbers?

"Excess deaths". Mostly, they don't bother to do the paperwork on the LCP. Trusts have admitted they have no information. If they did the paperwork, or just did it properly, they would know. They don't know.

How many of those "excess deaths" are down to implementing the LCP?

The kissing has to stop. You can’t all continue to treat this as a political football to kick around. You can’t all keep batting back the ping-pong ball; it’s not a game you’re playing. You have enacted policies and they are taking effect. It’s as simple as that and the killing has to stop.

The New Statesman –

What does this graph tell us? It tells us that the EoLC Programme has worked; the EoLC Strategy is working; and that, for the first time since Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker’s landmark speech, the demographics are going in the ‘right’ direction.

The number of older adults is increasing 

• The absolute number of older adults and their proportion in the population is significantly increasing. From 1983–2008, the proportion of the total population aged 75 years and over in England increased by a third from 6% (2.9 million people) to 8% (4.0 million people). The population aged 75 and over is projected to increase to 7.2 million in 2033, and the number of people aged 90 and over is projected to increase from 0.4 million in 2008 to 1.2 million in 2033.(Office for National Statistics).
• Increases in the ‘oldest’ population have resulted from falling mortality rates in the second half of the 20th Century and increased birth rates at the beginning of the 20th Century (Dini & Goldring, 2008). In the UK, from 1968–2008 mortality rates declined by 51% in males and 43% in females (Office for National Statistics, 2009).
• In England, life expectancy (period expectation of life at birth) increased by over 6 years in males from 1980–82 to 2006–08, from 71.1 years to 77.7 years, and by over 4 years in females, from 77.0 years to 81.9 years (Office for National Statistics) 

- National End of Life Care Intelligence Network

Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker’s landmark observations echo down the years.

There are always consequences. A programme or strategy promoted and rolled out by government will multiply those consequences. There have been "excess deaths". There are "missing" older adults. Where are those missing ninety year-olds?

Mail Online has reported a ten-fold rise in palliative care deaths –

Mail Online, citing Doc Foster, sees this as massaging the figures on the sly. It suits their editorial stance and all that LCP business has dropped out of the picture and is no longer, perhaps, newsworthy.

This is Dr Foster -

The report highlights Dr Foster’s concerns that current palliative coding encompasses a wide variety of palliative pathways. Patients admitted to hospital specifically for specialist palliative care cannot currently be distinguished from those who were admitted for treatment and whose subsequent deterioration in health led to them receiving palliative care.

Roger Taylor, of Dr Foster, explains how an elderly patient might go in to hospital with a broken hip, develop an infection and die...

Actually, Mr.Taylor, this is precisely what does happen and has been happening.

It could be a broken hip, it could be anything. Curious you should say a broken hip, though...

This is Chad -

Graham Bennett’s mum Gladys was admitted to hospital in October 2010 after falling and breaking her hip at her home at Burton Court in Bilsthorpe.

But she died later that month at King’s Mill after Graham was asked to sign forms that he now believes gave consent to put her on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).

“It was never mentioned, that’s what annoys me,” said Graham (70).

“It’s taken a time to come to terms with it, even though my mum 

Downsize care by downsizing care expectations. Initiate a programme of ‘identifying’ the One Percent who statistically die via a protocol of assessment involving statistical probability and intuitive judgement and earmark them for EoLC.

This will (of course!) trawl in many who would not have formed part of that One Percent cohort. By far the greater part of medical error consists of medical misdiagnosis. There will be excess deaths...

The Route to Success documents are available here.

The route to success in end of life care - achieving quality in ambulance services28 February 2012 - National End of Life Care Programme

This guide sets out the key role and contribution of ambulance services in achieving high quality care at each step along the end of life care pathway.

Whilst highlighting the crucial role of ambulance services, the guide also acknowledges the unique set of challenges and barriers that need to be addressed and overcome. 

Good practice examples and top tips are provided throughout to make this guide a key tool not only for ambulance services, but also for other health and social care providers, professionals, managers and commissioners.
Order hard copies by email to: information@eolc.nhs.uk. 

The "unique set of challenges and barriers" makes pertinent reading here -

Liverpool Care Pathway - On The Final Stretch

The June 2010 Macmillan End of Life Care Newsletter shares the National End of Life Care Programme logo and is published by NHS.

From the Newsletter - "Discuss with family and friends how to get care and help at different times. Specifically advise that calling 999 is very seldom appropriate and may result in resuscitation, transfer and admission."

Everywhere, in regard to healthcare, you will hear this mantra -

Affordable, Sustainable.

Target-based CQUINS were set...

This is the End of Life Baseline Report -

End of life care is a key priority of the North West regional QIPP workstream for Demand and Threshold Management and the North West SHA in recognition that improving QIPP across the end of life care pathway will significantly support overall delivery against the £20 billion QIPP challenge by 2014/15. 

"Excess deaths" continue to be the indicator that something has happened, is happening.

The Review has slammed the use of the LCP, but still reserves some good thoughts for the LCP itself. There are other ‘last days’ pathways, though, and these are all still up and running.

As mentioned in these pages, the Welsh Collaborative Care Pathway, for instance, had a 'fundamental rewrite' and was relaunched­­­ because of 'adverse publicity'. Now, the same is happening to the LCP? These should not be looked to to replace the LCP; rather, they should be subjected to scrutiny and review themselves.

Additional reading -

Liverpool Care Pathway - Missing The Plot

Liverpool Care Pathway - When The Caring Had To Stop

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Palliative Option

Liverpool Care Pathway - What Is To Be Done...?

Liverpool Care Pathway - So What's The News?

Liverpool Care Pathway - Time To Wise Up

Liverpool Care Pathway - From “Nightingale To Nightmare”

Liverpool Care Pathway - Ten Years In The Waiting

Liverpool Care Pathway – Excess Deaths

Liverpool Care Pathway - The King Lives!

Liverpool Care Pathway - All Change!

It is determined by the physician's subjective perception of a life considered worthy of life and of a life not so adjudged worthy of life. It is to do with health care rationing and the intrusion of the Communitarian ethos into the mainstream.

It is doctors abandoning traditional ethics.

It was once unthinkable to permit an action that would cause or permit death. Today, doctors don death caps and sit in judgement of their patients worthiness to live. The right to life, the right to live, has been submerged beneath a tidal wave that demands the right to die.

For years, the British public has been softened up to accept dying as a positive life option.

The Government published its NHS National End of Life Care Program in 2008.

The NCPC has been running the EoLC programme since 2009. They have downsized care expectations.

A system has been rolled out. It is in place.

A system has been rolled out. It is working.

Excess deaths...?

Excess deaths!

The project continues, and there are reports and reports of reports.

Liverpool Care Pathway - On The Final Stretch

So casual do we watch another die? So casual is become our estimate of life?






Coldly, calculatedly, we place a value judgement on what is a life worth living. Then, what else might we expect in this Monty Python world when ‘Stand by’ takes on a whole new, quite literal, dimension of meaning?

The Mail headlines -

In the aftermath of the Mid Staffs killing wards, they rolled out the '6 Cs'...

Caring people used to become doctors and nurses because they cared. "Better training" will not teach people who do not care to care.

Nurture may instill; nature will reveal…

Compassion is something you may learn but it may not be taught.

They waited long enough until they thought it was safe to act. Culture and attitudes have been doctored and groomed. It seems they can now get away with anything, even referring to a dementia sufferer as 'Mickey Mouse'...

Liverpool Care Pathway - Hard At Their Purpose

The National Patient Safety Agency alerted -

Ensure that naloxone injection, an antidote to opiate-induced respiratory depression, is available in all clinical locations where diamorphine and morphine injections are stored or administered.

Not one of the 'just in case' boxes deployed to Care Homes and for use in patient's own homes, apparently, contains the antidote. The purpose is to push and, when push comes to shove, shove they will.

Further reading -

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Rationing Of Available Resources

There is now a first (999) and second class (111) emergency number. Time, which is always the crucial factor in any emergency, is being wasted expecting someone who may not, and most likely does not, possess that knowledge to determine how much of an emergency is an emergency to make that crucial decision.

The box-ticking, target-hitting 999 response service has been running for some years...

And even a skilled paramedic may miss something that should be blue-lighted...

Liverpool Care Pathway - 111, EPaCCs And The 999 Downgrade

And the first class 999 service has, itself, been further downgraded.

It has become practice to make these priority assessments and to downgrade response. Vulnerable groups are being groomed to downgrade their own response expectations. Attitude has been subtly skewed.

Once upon a time, doctors would go that extra mile to preserve life. That is the whole principle of First Aid and why First Aiders become First Aiders: to rush in to the rescue, to be there and be able to attend to a dire need. Life and the preservation of life was always first and foremost in mind. That has all been turned on its head.

When every heartbeat counts, do you check what's on the EPaCCs or do you just plunge in and try and save that life?

Liverpool Care Pathway - ‘Hands On’ Life Café

The victim in the Mail report was a 47 year old man, not immediately someone to be placed in a group to receive a downgraded response. The court determined that the gentleman would not have survived his heart attack, however, and so the paramedic, among five hospital staff arrested, received only a suspended sentence for failing to execute his duty of care. The manslaughter charge was dropped.

CCTV caught Matt Geary as, hands in his pockets, he took a quick look at the desperately ill patient.

But instead of trying to save his life and taking him to the accident and emergency department only yards away, he callously left.

The paramedic "took a quick look" the report says. This was clearly an assessment that there was only a small chance of a successful response to CPR. This paramedic was actually following the Lakhani Recommendations...

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Cost Of Living

Is there evidence of a DNACPR advance directive or order being in place?

Is the person elderly or frail as described in the Lakhani Recommendations...?

To comply with a ‘Last Wishes’ document and to maintain dignity; to retain the dignity of this dignified person, is it best to...

Let them go? Is it better to stand back and just watch them die?

This is the world we live in...

This is what we have come to and we are almost there. We're on the final stretch.

Additional reading -

Liverpool Care Pathway - From “Nightingale To Nightmare” 

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Prequel 

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Bee Wee Consultation

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Rationing Of Available Resources

Liverpool Care Pathway - A 'Right' To Die?

Once a right becomes a human right, the list starts to become endless.




This is The Independent -

Canada’s Supreme Court has struck down the country’s 1993 ban on assisted suicide, meaning doctors there can now help mentally competent patients with severe and incurable medical conditions to die. The ruling puts Canada among the few Western countries to permit the practice.

In a unanimous judgement, the court decided that clearly consenting adults who are suffering intolerably could choose to die, though their illness would not have to be terminal to qualify. 

The Canadian Government has been given a year to ‘make it so’...

...the court suspended its ruling for 12 months while Parliament and Canada’s medical establishment draft new legislation to address assisted suicide. The ban will then be lifted next year.

A culture of death has cast its net worldwide to capture and ensnare in a torrent of verbal spume the unwitting and the erudite, the former in the confirmation of another's sophistication, the latter of their own.

A dark shadow is stalking our hospitals and care homes: the right to death is becoming paramount over the right to life. The arrogant and self-righteous, confident and secure in their own self-righteous belief, not at all tempered by humility, proud and haughty stamp their deadly mark, and a frightening thing they are to contemplate.

It is a policy. The policy is a global policy.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the ‘right to die’ is a right to 'self-determination'. It may be asked, why is not the right to live?

Liverpool Care Pathway - Horrific And Costly In Lives

Assisted dying/euthanasia respects neither the person nor life. It devalues the person; it devalues life. Death does not liberate life; it demands that life be surrendered. When care is responsive care, responsive to the circumstances of the individual, there is no conflict between the law and the primacy of duty of care. Responsive care is always by measure and respects life, the patient and duty of care.

It is putting the cart before the horse to say that to oppose euthanasia is to deny others the 'right' to terminate their lives. An Assisted Dying Bill places an onus on others to accept such a possibility as an option for themselves, obliged by group pressure and social disapproval and denunciation that they are acting selfishly to place the burden of care for themselves onto others and make themselves a drain on finite resources.

Once Assisted Dying/euthanasia becomes the norm in Canada - as it will should a Bill be passed to enact it - the pressure to act selflessly and to do the 'right thing' and die will follow in its wake, sure and true. No safeguard or measure put in place will prevent this for such is the stuff of human nature so to do. Thus does the 'right' to die become the 'duty' to die.

When is a murder not a murder?

Give them a centimetre and they'll take a kilometre.

Veronique...?

Liverpool Care Pathway - Semantics, Semantics, Semantics 

Liverpool Care Pathway - So Readily Do Perceptions Change...

The 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is a binding international agreement that the UK helped draft and has sought to comply with for over half a century.

In regard to the Death Pathways, the intentional withholding of medical treatment designed to preserve life clearly contravenes Article 2 of the ECHR.

As for euthanasia, the European Convention on Human rights was drafted in the wake of the horrors of the Second World War. Foremost in the minds of those who compiled it was to enshrine some legal protection for the right of citizens to life and liberty. It is doubtful that it was ever envisaged that the convention would be used to demand the 'right' to die.

Physicians, politicians, do not surrender so easily the right to life to charter or enactment of law, for life is always precious and living matters -

"If I should ever seek death - there are several times when my progressive condition challenges me - I want to guarantee that you are there supporting my continued life and its value. The last thing I want is for you to give up on me, especially when I need you most."
- Lady Jane Campbell

The suicide walks to the ledge. Do those who are summoned attempt to talk the suicide down when that may be said to contravene their ‘right’ to die.

You have lifted the lid and peeped inside, but you have not seen nor dreamt of all the ills you shall let loose on the world.

This is Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The Firemen do not come to put out the fire but to set the books ablaze.

The Suicide Squad are summoned...

not to talk them down...

but to tip them over the edge...

Additional reading -

Liverpool Care Pathway - And The Right To Life 

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Shadows That Precede 

Liverpool Care Pathway - What Have We Come To...? 

Liverpool Care Pathway - This Is The Way It Slides, With A Slither... 

Liverpool Care Pathway - 'Newthanasia' 

Liverpool Care Pathway - A New Hope...?

Liverpool Care Pathway - Of CQuINs, Tipping Points And QUELCAs

A "silver-haired tsunami of need", a "time bomb"...
Is this how we describe those we should cherish and look up to?

They were talking about this fifty years ago. This was discussed in his landmark speech by Patrick Gordon Walker. See –

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Werther Defectives

Liverpool Care Pathway - When The Caring Had To Stop

They were still talking about this one year ago at the Time Bomb Conference in Hartlepool -

- Care Industry News

The major focal point of the day is to address the End of Life Care Pathways that change this year following the phasing out of the Liverpool Care Pathway

Discussion, which also provided a Syringe Pump Tutorial, proceeded on the implementation of EoLC Pathways.

These are our old ones, described variously as a 'tsunami of need' and a 'time bomb'. These are not terms to use to inspire feelings of concern and care but stirrings of emotion to act on an urgent need which must be dealt with and done away with as efficiently and expeditiously as possible.

The doctor flagged up for admission...

See -

Liverpool Care Pathway - Still Playing Games Of Consequences

No more...

This is Pulse -

The ‘Bolton Quality Contract’ will see practices’ core funding brought up to £95 in return for meeting a number of ‘quality standards’, including practices agreeing to a transfer of work into general practice where this is ‘clinically appropriate’ and working proactively to anticipate and prevent emergency admissions

It was by using the CQuIN payments system that the DoH expanded the LKP death pathway programme throughout the NHS and beyond. A CQuIN supplement is now to be paid to GPs by Bolton CCG to bring many services in-house and to flag down emergency admissions.

It has long been realised that attitudes to traditional first attendance would have to change.

This is BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care -

Results NHS band and educational background are the main influences on the participants views of End of Life provision provided by paramedics. Length of service as a paramedic and experience appear to be factors that affect confidence when dealing with these incidents in practice. The majority of participants rated that communication about End of Life Care between services is poor. Most participants would like EOL training to be mandatory and would prefer face to face training to self-directed learning packages.

Conclusions Communication between services is viewed as poor whilst staff backgrounds influences their views. Whilst the majority of paramedics feel that End of Life Care it is a key part of their role, there is a need for wider training to address differences in staff awareness, knowledge and confidence.

And this is succeeding, as is evidenced by what has been described as a ‘secret policy’ at East of England but which, in point of fact, is a programme.

Hospitals have been demonstrated not to be safe. It was reported as such two years ago. The frail and the fragile, the vulnerable and the elderly, are to be treated in the community for their own protection...

Liverpool Care Pathway - This Is Not 'Ageism'; It Is Communitarianism

Liverpool Care Pathway - Going Stateside 

Cambridge News has reported that there is a 'tipping point' -

Researchers have identified the point at which busy hospitals begin to fail, resulting in deaths of critically ill patients.

Stefan Scholtes, professor of health management at Cambridge Judge Business School, along with German colleagues, investigated bed occupancy levels and death tolls in 256 clinical departments of 83 German hospitals during 2004/05 and identified a severe mortality tipping point at 92.5 per cent occupancy.

The discharge records of 82,280 patients with a high risk of mortality were studied and one in seven deaths could be attributed to occupancy alone, and could have been avoided if they were not exposed to such busy wards.

Prof Scholtes said: “We all suspected that outcomes would deteriorate, but previously there were assumptions of gradual deterioration. Our research revealed is that there is, in fact, a tipping point which was triggered strongly at about 92 per cent.

“When the tipping point was exceeded, patients began dying in significant numbers.

“If the tipping point is reached frequently, the hospital will experience a sustained quality problem, which may threaten its survival. Even more worryingly, if the tipping point is only exceeded occasionally, the dangerous situation may go unnoticed because it is not statistically detectable in aggregate hospital data. The hospital appears safe when it isn’t.”

Deaths also result as a consequence of central policy, the adoption of programmes and the cultivation of attitudes.

At Leicester University Hospitals -

Talking about death or end of life care is not easy for anyone, but staff at Leicester’s Hospitals are already taking an active role in trying to improve the recognition and care of patients who may be close to the end of their life.

This is the ‘Quality End of Life Care for All’ (QUELCA) programme.

Rebecca Proctor, Macmillan End of Life Care Facilitator at Leicester’s Hospitals added: “I have discovered that empowering staff to recognise that patients might deteriorate and die soon is key and the training we are providing is helping ensure that these staff have the skills and confidence to provide sensitive, appropriate care in these situations.”

One such way is through the ‘Quality End of Life Care for All’ (QUELCA) training programme that is delivered to ward nursing staff by our Specialist Palliative Care team in conjunction with colleagues from LOROS hospice.

Rebecca, one of the lead facilitators of the QUELCA programme, said: “This has made a real difference to the understanding staff have of the issues for dying patients and their families.  With this increased awareness, staff have been able to identify issues and make changes that improve the delivery of end of life care in their ward areas.”  Examples of positive changes on individual wards include improving provision of refreshments, camp beds and space for relatives.

Dr Bronnert added: “There have been real improvements in care over the last year across our hospitals and we will continue to make many more improvements.  There has been a better recognition of patients who may not recover from their illness during their hospital stay and we have seen an increasing number of patients who have chosen to complete and carry with them ‘Emergency Health Care Plans’ that outline their preferences for care in the future, which means our staff can do their best to give their patients care that is tailored to their needs and what they would want.” 

Identifying and classifying as 'unlikely to recover' is a generalisation that may apply to a group but not to the individuals of the group. QUELCA is not at all a ‘personalised’ programme of care but another self-fulfilling prophecy.

Patients who 'carry with them' their own ACDs in the absence of up-and-running EPaCCs are bearing their own death warrants and providing justification for the withdrawal of treatment.

Ward staff are being delivered the confidence to 'recognise' these patients. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

A little knowledge in the hands of the arrogant and self-righteous, confident and secure in their own self-righteous belief, not at all tempered by humility, is a deadly and frightening thing to contemplate.

Further reading -

Liverpool Care Pathway - Boiling Frogs, Sans Everything

Liverpool Care Pathway - “I Tell You There Are No Politics.”

Even when there is no hope,  still hold out for hope. Never give in; never give in; never, never, never!

It’s time for some pause and a stop-off at Life Café...

This is Yahoo News -

A Nebraska woman who had her hands and feet amputated after suffering a sudden bacterial infection is in "surprisingly good spirits," her family says. And she's lucky to be alive.

Last month, Teri Roberts, a 56-year-old wife, mother and grandmother of five from Valley, Nebraska, was diagnosed with streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome and after falling into a coma that doctors at Methodist Physicians Clinic feared she would never come out of.

Then, on Dec. 22, came what her family described as an early Christmas miracle.

"She just magically woke up," her 35-year-old son, Ryan Roberts, said during a press conference last week. "Literally four hours before we moved to take her off life support."

"Teri has a long road ahead of her, yet her spirit is awesome!" a GoFundMe page set up for Roberts states. "She believes that everything happens for a reason and we just don't know what it is yet."
The crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $18,000 so far. According to Ryan, she is determined to walk and drive again.

"I gave up on my mom, and she didn't give up on herself," he said.

Teri’s family needs to raise $25,000 for her medical bills. Let us show that the charity of ordinary folk outdoes any day the feigned charitable purpose of the State that provides a 'free' NHS out of funds pillaged from our pockets!

Please go to gofundme - Teri's Heroic Journey -

"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston S. Churchill

This is the charity of ordinary folk...

- The Telegraph

For those ungenerous to the memory of a great man, please go to the pages of The Telegraph here -

- The Telegraph

He is indelibly associated with the fight to preserve Britain and its Empire from Nazi invasion and his subsequent denouncement of Soviet totalitarianism’s Iron Curtain.

In the public eye, Sir Winston Churchill’s long political career earned him a place among the greatest of Britons.

But what may come as a surprise is that he was a strong admirer of Islam and the culture of the Orient — such was his regard for the Muslim faith that relatives feared he might convert.

Churchill regarded Islam and Christianity as equals. There are parallels, also, in the two great schisms that exist in each.

For those over-generous to what is Muslim Fascism, please go to the pages of Tell Children The Truth here -

The rise of the Fascist Left merges with the Radical Right...

And -

Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. …

"Equality,"

I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.…

Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now.

- Bob Dylan

There’s no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there’s only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I’m trying to go up without thinking of anything trivial such as politics.

“There’s no left wing and no right wing, only up wing and down wing,”
“I tell you there are no politics.” 

- Bob Dylan