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To relieve the mood following yesterday's events, Matt Hancock has apparently lost his UN Job

She looks fine. She's even smiling.

Longest reigning monarch of a sovereign state was Louis XIV of France, 72 years and 110 days. Liz is on place four currently, under Thai king Bhumi and Liechtenstein's Johann II, who died in the 1920s. Both ruled 70 years Swaziland's Sobhuza II's reign was 82 years but his actual coronation was only 22 years into his reign and his country was a British protectorate until 1968. He died in 1982. There are six other monarchs of dependant states who ruled over 75 years including Lippe's Bernard VI who died in 1511 after ruling 81 years. He had succeeded his father who died when Bernard was under under ten months old.

Her mother used a stick for the last 10-15 years of her life so it really doesn’t say much. The Queen has always had terrible posture, largely owing to hunching over a writing desk all her life.

I think the number of people selecting Michael in all of the deadpools but especially the DDP will increase quite notably next year after this announcement which strangely for a man his age still seems like a bolt out of the blue.

I wouldn’t say I admired him. Being an LGBT+ he certainly wouldn’t have cared much for me, as his aversion to them having equal rights would suggest. So there’s that, he was anti-abortion at all costs, Pro-Brexit at all costs, the list goes on. I’m sure I’d gladly have called him all the undesirables under the sun. I’m sure I did at some point. But none of that comes into the equation. He was brutally, senselessly murdered by a coward who sought to damage democracy. When a tragedy like this happens, it should never be politicised. It’s a desperately tragic incident, very much reminiscent of Jo Cox which happened just 5 years ago. It shouldn’t happen to anyone. Their families shouldn’t have to go through that. Other MPs shouldn’t have to live in fear of being filleted by a stranger for simply doing their job. It’s a very dark day for this country.

Sounds like you've already started making your longlists for next year and good progress is being made!

Skimming through Twitter, I briefly thought that Trent Alexander Arnold had died.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/jaakiekko/a/d1e8fa05-85ab-40d8-85e1-ed5ba6168d5c Jukka Tammi, Finnish hockey legend, silver medalist (Calgary 88) and two-time olympic bronze medalist (Lillehammer 94 and Nagano 98) apparently had a failed heart surgery in 2020. Tammi, 59, now has a pacemaker, says that he'll "live what is left"

Ahahah completely dumb, it’s the YouTuber Tiboinshape (huge name in France but quite controversial). on an other hand, she looks old but fine. Still hope she’ll be the oldest alive one day, she deserves it after having been in the shadow of Kane Tanaka For so long despite her age !

Black humour runs in the family. As my gran (still living) once put it - if you can't have fun at a funeral, when can you? Hey, it's better to remember Tebbit as your uncle than for some of his career! There is a distinct toxic nature to world politics at the moment which makes one despair. I'm not sure how it can be fixed at this point. When my Dad worked in A&E there was big posters up about what to do if one of the staff was stabbed on duty. Drunks with knifes were a regular threat to nurses and doctors trying to save peoples lives. Dad was never stabbed thankfully but did have to disarm folk on more than one occasion. Someone once pulled a knife on me in a crowded pub. They were drunk and dropped it. I'm 6 foot 2, used to play rugby, could dissuade fights from happening with a look, but on that instance the only option was to fucking leg it out of there ASAP. So I understand how you feel.

7) Remainers

HBO and Cablevision founder Charles "Chuck" Dolan is still alive and 95 today. I don't know if he has been mentioned here before.

https://www.indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/actor-farrukh-jaffer-passes-away-at-88-7573940/ Indian actress Farrukh Jaffar dead aged 88. She was a radio presenter from the 60s, appeared in a lot of bollywood movies between 2015 and 2020. She also won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress this year, becoming the oldest winner of a filmfare award for acting at 88.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10097451/Dame-Mary-Berry-86-waited-three-half-hours-ambulance-breaking-hip.html Mary Berry reveals she broke her hip earlier this year after a fall in her garden.

I am feeling better now slowly but will wait a few days to update the points out of respect for Sir David Amess.A ghastly horrible day for British politics and the country as a whole.Feel incredibly sad this has happened again after Jo Cox.My thoughts are with all his family and friends.Always came across on TV as a a gentlemanly and courteous man who was opinionated but never unpleasant aggressive or rude .I think the heartfelt tributes from across the political divide give you a measure of the man. R.I.P Sir David

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10095581/The-Queen-95-ordered-quit-drinking-royal-doctors-family-friend-claims-Vanity-Fair.html According to media reports the Queen has been advised to stop drinking alcohol by her doctors.

Looks and sounds a bit worse than in February when she got to 117, but I think she'll make it to 118 (four months). Randon was already in a wheelchair before her supercentenarian years, can still talk and move her hands. Hasn't declined a lot since then.

So second MP dead in 5 years and 4 months. There were 4 dead in roughly 11 years from 1979-1990 during a volatile time. Will this be the last MP to die this decade? There's no doubt we're going through a volatile time now, looking at a previous pattern you'd say no ,but it doesn't always work like that. I don't know why but I feel this could be the end of MPs surgeries. You could see multiple different groups/people wanting to murder an MP. 1) white supremacists 2) Islamic extremists 3) anti lockdown ,anti vaccine passport 4) economic victims , those who've lost their business 5) mentally ill ( there's a mental illness pandemic coming) 6) those angry that their relatives died during pandemic & want to lash out at the government. Who'd be an MP during these times? Sir David Amess shared many of my views and beliefs but in a few we differed. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Telegraph obit. A really great read if you have a subscrip.

Until tomorrow morning

Herald obituary for Fiona Clyne, Scottish film and theatre actress, aged 93: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19647032.obituary-fiona-clyne-film-tv-actress-put-family-career-success/ Essentially gave up her career for her children. She was the widow of Jimmy Gilbert, the TV Producer who worked with many big names including Stanley Baxter. Her daughter Susan Gilmore became an actress too, in such as Angels and Howard's Way. Her son Colin Gilbert is a comedy scriptwriter with Scotch And Wry and Not The Nine O'Clock News to his name, setting up the Comedy Unit in Scotland, producing such as Rab C Nesbitt. All in all, giving up her own career so her husband and children could succeed so amazingly is a tremendous act of self-sacrifice, which has paid off. Deservedly remembered here.

The stick has been provided by Q. Anyone who gets within COVID spitting distance is despatched toute suite. Also goes for anyone wanting to include her in any more fucking Bond related stuff....

I think she has a while to go yet but hardly surprising she is declining she is 95 so bound to happen eventually. I just told my 94 year old Grandma the Queen has to use a walking stick too she has just started to have to use one as she is struggling to walk now, and she can’t get her head round the fact she is slowing down and can’t do what she use to be able to do. The family have all told her she has been lucky to have been able to walk unaided for so long but it’s like talking to a brick wall, she just seems to get more and more depressed about it. We’ve told her she can still do more than most 94 year olds as she can still do most things for herself like preparing food for herself etc only response I got from her about Queen is “Well she’s old you can’t expect anything else.” When I told her they were practically the same age and you can’t expect anything else too I got an earful for my troubles. I also got told how Queen has staff to help her and luck after her and she hasn’t even though we go up everyday to see her and take her to her appointments and help her with anything she needs even though she won’t let us help her as she says can do it herself. It is so frustrating she is never happy with anything we do for her, I know it’s her age but it’s hard work. Anyway rant over just good to get it of my chest, sorry if bored anyone.

Deathlist was created after Cary Grant's death (1904-1986). Kane Tanaka is the last person alive, born before Cary Grant.