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Sad news. I will never forget her performance in The Time Machine with Boris Johnson.

Dead. Anatoly Malofeyev.

Wouldn't it make sense to merge all the H O'C posts from the two pop threads into here?

Don't think he's remotely interested (after the last abortive attempt). That said, you're making a good point - part of the Bojo problem is that whilst he lacks anything you might call Johnsonism as a clear political philosophy he has united a hugely divided party to the point they've got a thumping majority. A back bench leader risks them going the way of labour under Jezza, one of those already running but undeclared risks them getting behind a clear philosophy that distances a significant bunch of the existing party and current support and hanging onto Bojo risks more chaos. If he survives the dreaded vote their own rules pretty much give him a year unchallenged and fuck knows how far they could sink if he offered up a year of the same "leadership" (or maybe leadershit is a better word). If you park any concerns about the country, economy or lives lost it's top-line entertainment

Stage Obit for singer, actress and children's book author Ruth Silvestre: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/ruth-silvestre

Church is a shit pick anyway. Only a tiny minority of teams had any disallowed picks - most choosing to stay away from picks that in their own judgment were FFBI. On the other hand one team had 4 disallowed picks and so has only 19 live names in the game. One other team clearly knew their picks were dodgy and so supplied 6 subs - in the end only 3 were needed but the Committee will be discussing a max number of subs allowed for disallowed picks because the entrant clearly knew that lots of their team was sitting on the fence of allowability and we shouldn’t encourage that approach.

Former president of the International Court of Justice, Shi Jiuyong, dead at 95.

Another Brit supercentenarian, Joyce Wooding, died on January 9th, aged 110.

Oooo just seen that she's a unique pick in the DDP! QOs: Mirror, The Sun, Daily Star. Given that Gento was a hit earlier today and Saturnino just got his QO, that's 21 hits in 19 days!

Yep, bit of a cult pick in the late 2010s. Not putting him on the List of the Missed though, as I'm opting not to do so for names that wouldn't pass under current criteria.

QO for Garcia

Fuck, no mention of Covid??? The Engineer will now have to rethink his conspiracy theory.

What bothers me is that the longer "Boris" remains, the more unelectable the Tories become. He needs to stay in place a bit longer.

I must be alone in thinking he doesn't look that bad.

Exactly why they should leave well alone. If there's a visible connection to Andrew, like a pub sign, they just need to change it to a portrait of a previous holder of the title. The last Duke of York was the Queen's father, before he became King.

Too right, he'll go anywhere to shag anything!

Well they could rename the party The Brady Bunch and it would still be as silly as the current front bench.

Only if he steps down as leader of the Committee I believe.

Davis doing a Geoffrey Howe there.

A nobody from a Red Wall seat. The Tories will paint him as opportunist, "never a real Conservative" (see Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry) and I'll be interested to see how voters in Bury South react. I don't think this defection will scare rank-and-file Tory MPs into submitting letters or tempt Boris into doing the "honourable thing". But it might not matter if the mass letters rumours are true.

Why don't you go away and join Deathray's forum, you might be happier there.

To be discharged soon. Invincible.

Lusia 'Lucy' Harris, the basketball pioneer who won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games and was the first Black woman inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 66, No cause of death was given. SC

Death Notice for unvalidated supercentenarian Gwen Renwick, aged 110: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/254826/renwick