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In that case, could some administrator post the picture to every thread?

I wouldnt be dissuaded cuz of this but I do find it shocking if ANY gold medallist doesn't obit.SC

Daevid Allen 13.03.2015 Danielle Darrieux Olivia de Havilland Manoel de Oliveira 02.04.2015 Maureen O'Hara Zsa Zsa Gabor Leslie Phillips David Rockefeller Sam Simon 08.03.2015 Lupita Tovar Third hit within 4 weeks. Not that bad.

Progeria sufferer Hayley Okines dies aged 17. Sad if inevitable news. She seemed an incredibly brave and sweet girl.

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In that case, could some administrator post the picture to every thread? Tempting...

I understand, it's variety your'e after:

Guess the only real winners were Boris Johnson and Ed Balls... My MP is Vernon Coaker (shadow defense sec') and he would have torn David Cameron to shreds had he been in Ed's shoes. What a shame this Wallace and Gromit look-a-like is not going to produce a major outright win. Also can't understand how elder brother David lost to this geek guy. Even International Rescue can't help him now... For me, I loved the three gals standing on the glass ceiling, rarther than never breaking through it. In truth it's all a big ploy to take the heat off Mr SamCam. If only British Politics were fair then all would be good in the garden.

Kent Messenger reporting the death of 97 year old Peter Lennard, former captain in the Royal Artillery and - maybe - the last survivor of the Tobruk campaign. The evidence for the final claim is that the Lennard family contacted the association for Tobruk survivors to inform them, only to find the association defunct because all the former members were dead. I'm suspecting some other Tobruk veterans continue to breathe but ill health and/or painful memories have kept them away from declaring themselves.

Sloppy journalism she is not an MP at the moment.

Not if he gets back for another full term. 10 years without a majority. Lucky bugger. That's politics. John Major was seen as a failure, yet he was 6+ years PM and got the largest vote ever in 1992 with 14 million votes. More than Thatcher, more than Atlee, more than Blair, more than Churchill. Think it would be much fairer to compare largest vote on percentage terms (since the war for ease) given the massive fluctuations in turnout and population: Eden 1955 - 49.8% MacMillan 1959 - 49.6% Wilson 1966 48.0% Churchill 1951 - 48.0% Attlee 1945 - 47.7% Heath 1970 46.4% Attllee 1950 - 46.1% Wilson 1964 44.1% Thatcher 1979 43.9% Blair 1997 43.2% Thatcher 1983 42.4% Thatcher 1987 42.2% Major 1992 41.9% Blair 2001 40.7% Wilson Oct 1974 39.2% Heath Feb 1974 - 37.9% (or Wilson Feb 1974 37.2% if we're only including PMs) Cameron 2010 36.1% Blair 2005 35.2% The trend is pretty clear, our electoral choices have massively diversified with 1974, 1983, 1987, 2005 and 2010 elections being clear indicators of this. For a government in our country to have any legitimacy at all we need a reform in voting system otherwise were stuck in this situation where more than 50% of the country can vote for a left-leaning party but the Tories get in (1987, 1983). Problem is with the electoral system being designed in a way that the two parties who would never push through that reform, or be interested in convincing people of why that reform is necessary, are going to eternally govern us. My personal suggestion would be for all parties that support voting reform to start hammering the benefits to people now and stand unity candidates in 2020.

Muhammad Ali described his boxing style as "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee". It seems appropriate to me. In addition a Butterfly has the appearance of a transient ethereal thing, like a spitrit departing the earth. I get it.