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Frank Oz is 78. "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".

I actually have just googled it I think I was getting mixed up with Mark Curry who presented Blue Peter?!

Pictured at the Chelsea Flower Show in the papers yesterday. This one from the Times doesn't look too bad but in the Mirror she looked quite frail.

Yeah, the "misleading parliament" bit could be the killer. Basically the silence of most Conservative MPs atm is deafening on this. They're all waiting for Sue Gray though a few hours from now they'll likely all be waiting for each other. There's clearly no hunger for a leadership contest and with Sunak conspicuously on the Sunday Times Rich List as the cost of living becomes the big political issue the whole succession thing is complicated because Sunak was likely the leading contender a few months back. Truss - apparently - has distanced as many people as she's won over with her "Fizz with Liz" events though her blatant attempts to imitate Thatcher would likely be useful if she made the final two in a ballot and it was left to the white, 70+ mob around the country who actually are voting members. Interesting times, or summat.

I think it's definitely possible. I also think it's possible that one or two of my picks still score. I think we really have to wait until the last day.

Wojciech Jaruzelski died on this day 8 years ago, aged 90. After Germany and the Soviet Union kicked off World War II by invading Poland, 16-year old Jaruzelski and his family fled to Lithuania, which was soon forcibly annexed into the USSR. The Russians deported the Jaruzelskis to Siberia (his father was sent to a gulag and died in 1942), and Wojciech was forced to clean the forests. During his labor, he suffered eye damage, causing him to wear his iconic sunglasses for the remainder of his life. He was able to return to Poland by joining the Soviet-controlled First Polish Army. In 1948, he joined the Polish United Workers' Party. He rose through the party ranks, and became the Minister of Defense in 1968. When the liberal Alexander Dubcek began loosening censorship in Czechoslovakia, Jaruzelski began an invasion of the country (along with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and Hungary). This saw a Warsaw Pact victory, and Dubcek was forced to resign. In 1981, Jaruzelski was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In December of that year, he declared martial law to strengthen his power against the Solidarity Party (led by Lech Walesa). This lasted until 1983. Thousands of political prisoners were taken, and most of them would not be released until 1986. In 1989, Jaruzelski restored the presidency, following Gorbachev's lead in the Soviet Union. He resigned on December 22, 1990, following the election in which Walesa won. Communist Poland was officially over. In 1998, Jaruzelski made his first appearance on the DeathList. He would appear again in 2000, and consecutively in 2012 and 2013. He was dropped for 2014- he died from complications of a stroke that year. He was the last survivor of the 1998 list- it was the first ever list extinction, having taken 16 years.

British comedian, writer and television presenter Julian Clary turns 63 today. Famous for comedy shows high in smut and innuendo such as All rise for Julian, Sticky moments and Terry and Julian, Clary went under the name The Joan Collins fan club in the 1980s in his early career on the alternative stand up comedy circuit . British singer Paul Weller , formerly a member of the hugely successful bands The Jam and The Style Council celebrates his 64th birthday today.

Very possibly! But I have always been sceptical about claims the Queen is on her deathbed and some people have more or less proclaimed she was at a stage in life were even doing what we see in that links photo was now beyond her! When we no longer see these photos that would be a time to maybe be concerned. According to the well sourced royal commentator Lady Colin Campbell the Queen has chosen to initiate a form of semi regency now and this well understood by senior palace courtiers with a plan in place. I am still pretty much firmly in team the odds are in favour of the Queen reaching 100.

God almighty. Could it possibly be that she only needs the stick if she is walking a distance as opposed to walking from that chair over there?

The mother of pro wrestler Lex Luger has died.

Yes, duh? Kill the joke.

No. Lying about it though, on so many occasions and amongst so many other things, is game over for any high office, or at least should be.

Bit late.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18673841/queen-stands-unaided-emir-qatar-jubilee/ The Queen stands unaided again today as she meets the Emir of Qatar .

Cunt Shapps has been doing the rounds this morning trying to defend the PM and those photos everyone has now seen. In his stellar defence, he says Johnson was “clearly not partying…and let’s not forget he lost his mum in that period”. So that settles it then, Johnson was mourning his mum at that party…who died ten months after it.

Thom Bresh, country singer and composer, reportedly dead aged 74: https://steveandjohnnie.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/r-i-p-thom-bresh/ Illegitimate child of Merle Travis, who swore Bresh to secrecy about his true parentage until Bresh's stepfather died. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2133980/ Various country hits in the 1970s, including:

Veteran television actor Horst Sachtleben has died aged 91: https://www.welt.de/regionales/berlin/article238952843/Schauspieler-Horst-Sachtleben-mit-91-Jahren-gestorben.html He became famous in several roles in television series from the 1960s to the 2010s, at the latest as bishop turnind cardinal in the long running series "Um Himmels Willen" ("For heaven's sake").

Telegraph death notice for Baroness Pamela Sharples (wiki) who has died aged 99. Means that there are now no former female MPs or peers who are older than the Queen. It also leaves the Queen as the last female establishment figure who served in WWII. Sharples was a tough old cookie and I thought she may have seen 100. Drove lorries during WWII, still drinking champers and playing golf at 91. In her late 80s she took a swing at a cyclist who nearly ran her over. Aged 90 she survived pneumonia after being hospitalised for 6 weeks (including 3 days in intensive care). Quite the character. They don't make them like that anymore! Just 10 WWII vets remaining from Parliament and the monarchy.

Now I have images of her using the buggy to run over Tory ministers. "Oops, excuse one, one is old and frail. Hehehe!"

Bumping this because she will receive the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement next month.

OK Computer is 25 years old tomorrow. Absolutely genius album. Here’s one underrated track from it.

Okay, so here is the annual reveal of the UK Eurovision entry, sung by Sam Ryder, a Viking from Essex. All well and good doing a song called Spaceman but I can’t help but think Babylon Zoo did it better.

her mother lived till exactly 90 and her father till 72, was also a smoker (standard at the time but still) and died of pneumonia. According to google, chain smoking takes 13 years on average of your lifespan so she may have well reached the limit.