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The letter in full: Dear Prime Minister, It has been the greatest honour and privilege of my life to have served the good people of Mid Bedfordshire as their MP for eighteen yearsᶠⁿ¹ and I count myself blessed to have worked in Westminster for almost a quarter of a centuryᶠⁿ². Despite what some in the media and you yourself have implied, my team of caseworkers and I have continued to work for my constituents faithfully and diligently to this dayᶠⁿ³. When I arrived in Mid Bedfordshire in 2005, I inherited a Conservative majority of 8,000. Over five elections this has increased to almost 25,000, making it one of the safest seats in the countryᶠⁿ⁴. A legacy I am proud of. During my time as a Member of Parliament, I have served as a back bencher, a bill Committee Chair, a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State before becoming Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care during the Covid crisis, after which I was appointed as Secretary of Stateᶠⁿ⁵ at the department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sportᶠⁿ⁶. The offer to continue in my Cabinet role was extended to me by your predecessor, Liz Truss, and I am grateful for your personal phone call on the morning you appointed your cabinet in October, even if I declined to take the callᶠⁿ⁷. As politicians, one of the greatest things we can do is to empower people to have opportunities to achieve their aspirations and to help them to change their lives for the betterᶠⁿ⁸. In DHSC I championed meaningful improvements to maternity and neonatal safety. I launched the women's health strategy and pushed forward a national evidence-based trial for Group B Strep testing in pregnant women with the aim to reduce infant deaths. When I resigned as Secretary of State for DCMS I was able to thank the professional, dedicated, and hard-working civil servants for making our department the highest performing in Whitehallᶠⁿ⁹. We worked tirelessly to strengthen the Online Safety Bill to protect young peopleᶠⁿ¹⁰, froze the BBC licence fee, included the sale of Channel 4 into the Media Billᶠⁿ¹¹ to protect its long-term future and led the world in imposing cultural sanctions when Putin invaded Ukraine. I worked with and encouraged the tech sector, to search out untaught talents such as creative and critical thinkingᶠⁿ¹² in deprived communities offering those who faced a life on low unskilled pay or benefits, access to higher paid employment and social mobility. What many of the CEOs I spoke to in the tech sector and business leaders really wanted was meaningful regulatory reform from you as chancellor to enable companies not only to establish in the UK, but to list on the London Stock Exchange rather than New York. You flashed your gleaming smile in your Prada shoes and Savile Row suitᶠⁿ¹³ from behind a camera, but you just weren't listening. All they received in return were platitudes and a speech illustrating how wonderful life was in California. London is now losing its appeal as more UK-based companies seek better listing opportunities in the U.S. That, Prime Minister, is entirely down to youᶠⁿ¹⁴. Long before my resignation announcement, in July 2022, I had advised the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, of my intention to step downᶠⁿ¹⁵. Senior figures in the party, close allies of yours, have continued to this day to implore me to wait until the next general electionᶠⁿ¹² ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿ rather than inflict yet another damaging by-election on the party at a time when we are consistently twenty points behind in the polls. Having witnessed first-hand, as Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss were taken down, I decided that the British people had a right to know what was happening in their nameᶠⁿ¹² ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿ. Why is it that we have had five Conservative Prime Ministers since 2010ᶠⁿ¹⁶, with not one of the previous four having left office as the result of losing a general election? That is a democratic deficit which the mother of parliaments should be deeply ashamed of and which, as you and I know, is the result of the machinations of a small group of individuals embedded deep at the centre of the partyᶠⁿ¹⁷ and Downing St. To start with, my investigations focused on the political assassination of Boris Johnsonᶠⁿ¹⁸, but as I spoke to more and more people - and I have spoken to a lot of people, from ex-Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers both ex and current through all levels of government and Westminster and even journalists - a dark story emerged which grew ever more disturbing with each person I spoke to. It became clear to me as I worked that remaining as a back bencher was incompatible with publishing a book which exposes how the democratic process at the heart of our party has been corruptedᶠⁿ¹⁹. As I uncovered this alarming situation I knew, such were the forces ranged against meᶠⁿ²⁰, that I was grateful to retain my parliamentary privilege until today. And, as you also know Prime Minister, those forces are today the most powerful figures in the land. The onslaught against me even included the bizarre spectacle of the Cabinet Secretary claiming (without evidence) to a select committee that he had reported me to the Whips and Speakers office (not only have neither office been able to confirm this was true, but they have no power to act, as he well knows). It is surely as clear a breach of Civil Service impartialityᶠⁿ²¹ as you could wish to see. But worst of all has been the spectacle of a Prime Minister demeaning his office by opening the gates to whip up a public frenzy against one of his own MPs. You failed to mention in your public comments that there could be no writ moved for a by-election over summer. And that the earliest any by-election could take place is at the end of September. The clearly orchestrated and almost daily personal attacks demonstrates the pitifully low level your Government has descended toᶠⁿ²². It is a modus operandi established by your allies which has targeted Boris Johnson, transferred to Liz Truss and now moved on to meᶠⁿ²³. But I have not been a Prime Minister. I do not have security or protection. Attacks from people, led by you, declared open season on myself and the past weeks have resulted in the police having to visit my home and contact me on a number of occasions due to threats to my person. Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened. What exactly has been done or have you achieved? You hold the office of Prime Minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs. You have no mandate from the people and the Government is adriftᶠⁿ²⁴. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what? And what a difference it is now since 2019, when Boris Johnson won an eighty-seat majority and a greater percentage of the vote share than Tony Blair in the Labour landslide victory of '97. We were a mere five points behind on the day he was removed from office. Since you became Prime Minister, his manifesto has been completely abandoned. We cannot simply disregard the democratic choice of the electorate, remove both the Prime Minister and the manifesto commitments they voted for and then expect to return to the people in the hope that they will continue to unquestioningly support us. They have agency, they will use it. Levelling up has been discardedᶠⁿ²⁵ and with it, those deprived communities it sought to serve. Social care, ready to be launched, abandoned along with the hope of all of those who care for the elderly and the vulnerable. The Online Safety Bill has been watered down. BBC funding reform, the clock run down. The Mental Health Act, timed out. Defence spending, reduced. Our commitment to net zero, animal welfare and the green issues so relevant to the planet and voters under 40, squanderedᶠⁿ²⁶. As Lord Goldsmith wrote in his own resignation letter, because you simply do not care about the environment or the natural world. What exactly is it you do stand forᶠⁿ²⁷? You have increased Corporation tax to 25 per cent, taking us to the level of the highest tax take since World War two at 75 per cent of GDP, and you have completely failed in reducing illegal immigration or delivering on the benefits of Brexit. The bonfire of EU legislationᶠⁿ²⁸, swerved. The Windsor framework agreement, a dead duck, brought into existence by shady promises of future preferment with grubby rewards and potential gongs to MPs. Stormont is still not sitting. Disregarding your own chancellor, last week you took credit for reducing inflation, citing your 'plan'. There has been no budget, no new fiscal measures, no debate, there is no plan. Such statements take the British public for fools. The decline in the price of commodities such as oil and gas, the eased pressure on the supply of wheat and the increase in interest rates by the Bank of England are what has taken the heat out of the economy and reduced inflation. For you to personally claim credit for this was disingenuous at the very least. It is a fact that there is no affection for Keir Starmer out on the doorstep. He does not have the winning X factor qualities of a Thatcher, a Blair, or a Boris Johnson, and sadly, Prime Minister, neither do you. Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become Prime Minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economyᶠⁿ²⁹. Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing. I shall take some comfort from explaining to people exactly how you and your allies achieved this undemocratic upheaval in my book. I am a proud working-class Conservative which is why the Levelling Up agenda was so important to me. I know personally how effective a strong and helping hand can be to lift someone out of poverty and how vision, hope and opportunity can change lives. You have abandoned the fundamental principles of Conservatism. History will not judge you kindlyᶠⁿ³⁰. I shall today inform the Chancellor of my intention to take the Chiltern Hundreds, enabling the writ to be moved on September the 4th for the by-election you are so desperately seeking to take placeᶠⁿ³¹. Yours sincerely, Nadine Dorriesᶠⁿ³² ᶠⁿ¹: Dorries has not held a constituency surgery for more than three years. ᶠⁿ²: Dorries has not spoken in Parliament for 13 months. ᶠⁿ³: Which is exactly why Flitwick council had no choice but to attempt to force her out, for having done bollocks all to represent the people who elected her. ᶠⁿ⁴: I look forward to the upcoming by-election to test this theory. ᶠⁿ⁵: God. ᶠⁿ⁶: Where she proved comprehensively she knew all about downstreaming all the latest action from the tennis pitch. Fucking useless. ᶠⁿ⁷: It was a FaceTime call, which she declined due to being mid ugly-cry about her beloved Boris not making the cut. ᶠⁿ⁸: How's that fucking gone? ᶠⁿ⁹: They were moved to the top floor of the building in the hope she'd use the window to good effect. ᶠⁿ¹⁰: Who can forget that rap? There went Nadine with her rhyming stunt. There's no doubt about it, she's a very silly cunt. ᶠⁿ¹¹: Where she demonstrated she hadn't a fucking clue how the funding of Channel 4 worked. ᶠⁿ¹²: Hahahahahahaha. ᶠⁿ¹³: Say what you like about Dorries, she really cared about politicians keeping it real and staying grounded. Like Alexander Pfeffel de Cunt with his multiple loans to subsidise his "chicken feed" salary. ᶠⁿ¹⁴: You sure you can't think of any other reasons why we might have lost international appeal? ᶠⁿ¹⁵: Blimey. We underestimated her again. It doesn't take two and a half months to resign, it takes just over a year! ᶠⁿ¹⁶: A rare moment of clarity of thought there. ᶠⁿ¹⁷: A bit like the Brexiter rot that Johnson led, that grew and twisted this already disgusting party (and then, erm, all facts) beyond all recognition. ᶠⁿ¹⁸: By which she means she whinges about Johnson's downfall on TalkTV for £100k+PA. ᶠⁿ¹⁹: See ᶠⁿ¹⁷ for exactly what she's talking about, but was delighted to be a part of. ᶠⁿ²⁰: Ah. Whip out the violins, everyone. She's talking about the peerage. ᶠⁿ²¹: The brass balls of her to be talking about Civil Service code when she repeatedly breached broadcasting code during the Privileges inquiry she and a handful of others sought to bring down ᶠⁿ²²: That's not the main thing that demonstrates how pitifully low THEY have sunk, but carry on. ᶠⁿ²³: As if she hadn't already kicked her own head in by being thicker than a Boxing Day shite? ᶠⁿ²⁴: Wow. At least there are some truths in this little pissy fit of hers. I see what Chris Bryant means! ᶠⁿ²⁵: Sort of, yeah. Gove's in charge. When he's not off his wee tits on chang. ᶠⁿ²⁶: I thought the Tories were supposed to wait until after their General Election loss to attack the serving Prime Minister for all of the mess we're in. She's gone off prematurely there. Probably another way Johnson has influenced her. ᶠⁿ²⁷: Ah, Goldsmith. Another one who was forced to apologise after his Privileges Committee shenanigans, but threw his toys out the pram instead. ᶠⁿ²⁸: Most of which we were instrumental in forming, and yet she still wants to burn it all. She's been hanging around that mewling pencil Rees-Mogg too much lately, hasn't she? ᶠⁿ²⁹: A rare point of party unity. ᶠⁿ³⁰: True, but unfortunately she thinks history will look back on Johnson as misunderstood and herself as an intellectual powerhouse. ᶠⁿ³¹: Huh? A minute ago they were desperately trying to avoid it for over a year? ᶠⁿ³²: Can't confirm whether or not she managed to spell her name correctly first go.

Not many hits to reports since the last update, all of 9 days ago. However, at this time of year the hits tend to get more significant as the points rise, as this weeks update illustrates. 18th August: Al Quie 21st August: Abe Jacobs 26th August: Bob Barker Bob Barkers demise is obviously the big one here, being selected by 13 players, enough for a place on the ZZZ Boring Predictable Team. Most significantly, he was a hit for @TheSpinosauruswho now takes the lead. @Thatcherwas only in the lead for 10 days this time, and now drops down to second place. Three more players cross the 1000 point barrier, with last years champion @Death Impendslurking ominously in 5th place with a Joker still to play. However no-one is running away with it, and there is plenty of scope for a bolter from the pack over the coming month or two. These are the players over 1000 points. Full updated leaderboard, as always, is on page 1. The Spinosaurus (1426 points) 7 hits [Alan Arkin, Bob Barker, Constantine, Horst-Dieter Hottges*, John Devitt, Michael Parkinson, Tony Bennett] Thatcher (1253 points) 8 hits [Federico Bahamontes, George Alagiah, Gianluca Vialli, Gina Lollobrigida, Milan Kundera Rolf Harris*, Ted Kaczynski, Tony Bennett] WEP (1204 points) 7 hits [Augie Nieto, George Alagiah*, Jango Edwards, Mutulu Shakur, Ralf Harris, Teresa Taylor, Tim Lobinger] The Unknown Man (1130 points) 6 hits [Bob Barker, George Alagiah*, Gianluca Vialli, Milan Kundera, Rolf Harris, Ted Kaczynski] Death Impends (1128 points) 8 hits [Bert I Gordon, Billy Graham, Bob Barker, Ed Ames, Francoise Gilot, Jimmy Weldon, Lucille Randon, Milan Kundera] Wannamaker (1051 points) 9 hits [Bob Barker, Frank McGarvey, George Alagiah, King Constantine, Pervez Musharraf, Milan Kundera, Rolf Harris, Ryiuchi Sakamoto, Ted Kaczynski]

Bob Barker receiving The ICG's President's Award during The 44th ICG Publicists' Awards:

Ernest Lawrence died on this day 65 years ago, aged 57. - Lawrence received his master's degree in physics in 1923- for his thesis, he built a machine that spun an object inside a confined magnetic field. - Lawrence would then receive his PhD in 1925, writing about the photoelectric effect in potassium vapor. He would continue researching said effect in the coming years. - In 1928, he was hired as an associate professor at the University of California- he became a full-time one in 1930. Here, he became the first person to isolate the nitrogen-13 and carbon-14 isotopes. - Lawrence would also invent the cyclotron between 1929 and 1930, and patented it in 1932. For revolutionizing the particle accelerator, Lawrence would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939. - During World War II, Lawrence worked on the Manhattan Project- he was already friends with J. Robert Oppenheimer, and had even named his son Robert after him. His role was converting one of his cyclotrons into a mass spectrometer in order to separate uranium-235 isotopes from regular uranium-238 ones, and this spectrometer became known as the "calutron". - Following the war, Lawrence became an advocate for nuclear proliferation, advocating for the creation of the hydrogen bomb following the first Soviet nuclear test in 1949. - Lawrence suffered from ulcerative colitis, and had to have a large amount of his colon removed- he also had atherosclerosis, and died from it while still recovering. - In 1961, a new element was discovered and named after him- it's called lawrencium:

I see more Jacques Delors departing before him.. reasons : - Jacques Delors turned 98 in july, instead Daddy Le Pen turned 95 in june. - Jacques Delors lost his wife in 2020, Le Pen stay married. - Martine Aubry (Jacques Delors daughter, is 73 years old, it’s normal at these age to have lost your both parents). Le Pen daughter, Marine, is 55 years old and she continually said, that he was in good shape even if he had multiples health alerts these year so far. - Daddy Le Pen continue to make some interviews to some of his journalists friends. He has a video channel on YouTube. His last interview below : Time goes by and he has more difficulty to reflect on his answers and more difficulty to walk. In contrary, it is a long time since Jacques Delors is off the radars. He made some last interviews like these one :

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester is 79 today.

American actor Ted Knight died on this day 37 years ago, aged 62. Knight spent most of th 1950s and 1960s creating commercial voice-overs and playing minor television and movie roles. He was well known for playing the comedic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Emails in Caddyshack. His role as the vain and untalented WJam newscaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show brought Knight widespread recognition and his greatest success. He received six Emmy Award nominations for the role, winning the Emmy for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Comedy" in 1973 and 1976. A few months after the end of the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977, Knight was diagnosed with colon cancer for which he received treatment. In 1985, the cancer returned and spread to his bladder and gastrointestinal tract.

Here are my opinions on all of the oldest people that I can’t say on 110 club: Maria Branyas Morera: Doing quite well for almost 116 and a half. Has obviously declined in the past few years, probably a bit over the course of this year but at a fairly slow, steady rate. I think she has a decent chance at making 117 but 117.5 or 118 is less likely. She appears to be still alert and could “stand a bit” on her 116th according to LQ article Fusa Tatsumi: Could have another two or three years left in her, or another two or three days. Who knows with this one. Declined fast at 110-113 but in stable condition since then. There may be new photos soon with the Japanese old people holiday. She looks cute hugging Pikachu Edie Ceccarelli: Has arguably declined more than Morera. Has dementia, no longer walking or drinking wine. Not much updates since February though but there are videos of her at 114 where she can have a conversation but her voice is very raspy and it’s obvious her memory is fading. It’d be hard to say whether she’ll make 116 at this point but in 50-ish days she beats Ford and becomes oldest American born in 1900s Tomiko Itooka: Has also declined a lot since 110 when she had some brain haemorrhage. She’s seemed to grow increasingly depressed over the past few years. Still has quite gray hair and looks fairly strong even at 115. Decent chance at making 116 Inah Canabarro Lucas: It’s basically been unanimously decided she’s the best case of 1908. Probably true. I think there’s an interview with her sometime in the last couple years where she speaks very well. I think all the “I predict she will make 118-119” seems like a bit too much, but she could easily make 116, probably more likely than Itooka at this point Juan Vicente Perez Mora: Oldest validated man since Kimura. Similarly to Fusa has been in stable condition for several years, and obviously in a better condition as well. Could make 115 or higher but also could drop dead any second. I hope for the first one. Hopefully we don’t see a decline in his health Elizabeth Francis: Was doing much better than I would have expected on her 114th. She is in bed in all the news articles but she does supposedly spend a lot of time in a wheelchair which is good. According to Ben Meyers is still fully “there” mentally. She could potentially live another year (or maybe more?), which she in fact says she plans on doing in a certain recent article Ethel Caterham: Has always been quite strong physically, but also has declined a bit. She might be able to stand because every photo of her is in an armchair but who knows. There’s no interviews with her I’ve seen. Hopefully she becomes the oldest “Ethel” ever in a few months and also oldest Brit in the 21st century. Maybe she could do 115, who knows Okagi Hayashi: Has declined fairly slowly in the past few years. Is smiling in every photo which is a good sign although she looked a tiny bit worse last year. We’ll see how she’s doing next week assuming she gets to her birthday. Probably the most likely case to become last Japanese born in 1900s decade Pearl Berg: Has been on oxygen regularly since at least February, spends most of her time in bed. Still she’s not doing that bad. Hopefully new updates come in October (she shares a birthday with Jimmy Carter, we’ll see if either of them make it). Within the next week she will beat Kristal and Goldie Michelson and become the 3rd oldest Jew

Congrats MariNisia!!! 1923: Louis Danziger / Helma Kissner 1924: Roger Guillemin / Nadia Cattouse 1925: Bill Hayes / Peggy Webber 1926: George Ariyoshi / Marilyn Erskine 1927: Júlio Duarte Langa / Joan Jara 1928: James Dewey Watson / Delfina Guzmán 1929: Édouard Balladur / Margaret Kerry 1930: Warren Buffett / Gena Rowlands 1931: William Shatner / Sylvia Lewis 1932: Manmohan Singh / Edna May Wonacott

'Bob Barker - Come On Down!' Really missed a trick there. Could've had something genius like 'Price Is Right Host is Toast'.

1. Nigel Starmer-Smith - bedridden since at least Nov 2021, end stage dementia which came in relatively quickly as still working in 2015, looking half dead in video footage earlier this year. 2. Jimmy Carter - palliative care 3. Jacques Delors - been in frail health for years now. 4. Norman Tebbit - allegedly frail, visibly quiet (unusual for Tebbit) 5. Joanne Woodward - end stage dementia for bloody ever 6. Marianne Faithful - COPD plus fucked lungs from covid, nursing home, also quite quiet of late (again, unusual, even in her frail condition) 7. Bob Newhart - frail and his wife just died 8. Willie Nelson - frail, nearly died last year, still buggering on till the end. 9. Dennis Skinner - very quiet (and this is Dennis bloody Skinner we're talking about), known to be frail/ill for 4 years. 10. Sonny Rollins - No idea how he is still alive 11. Linda Nolan - somewhere in the final stages of Stage IV cancer, spread to the brain 12. Shane MacGowan - in hospital for 2 months at least, ICU, probably not long left. Hmm, maybe? I'm aware this has just cursed someone super healthy for their age like Robert Duval or Hal Linden like always...

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (2/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50) 2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (3/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke (1/50) 2015: Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50) 2017: Jimmy Carter, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (3/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (11/50) 2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Shane MacGowan (9/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough (14/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (23/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, Bobby Charlton, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Rosalynn Carter, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Michael Gambon, Douglas Hurd, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt, Joss Ackland, Shane MacGowan (28/50) Updated for Bob Barker.

Qui vivra verra!

You baselessly accused me of being Russian, and again you know utterly nothing about the Russian empire, Soviet Union, or the current fascist russian state, so log off and never speak on anything again.

I see the ending for Jacques Delors to November or December…of 2023. And Le Pen in 2024.

We’ll if that’s her actual skin colour now that’s not a good sign Move over Betty White there’s a new Golden Girl in town

The latest issue of Doctor Who magazine reports the off-the-radar deaths of... Conrad Asquith (The Talons of Weng-Chiang) died September 2020 David Cannon (The Mind Robber) died July 2020 Freddy Foote (The Wheel in Space) died February 2022 and three un-credited actors Dorian Van Bramm died December 2020, Iain Smith died July 2022 and Dave Mobley died October 2022.

José Pinheiro de Azevedo was born in Luanda (ANG), and died in Lisbon 40 years ago, he was Prime Minister of Portugal in the Sixth Provisional Government. He died of an acute myocardial infarction Euronymous was born in died in Oslo aged 25 30 years ago,was a guitarist who played mainly in the band Mayhem. He was a pioneer in Nordic heavy metal and a creator of the Norwegian black metal scene, in addition to being the owner of the Deathlike Silence label and the record store called Helvete. from 1993 by Varg Vikernes, another musician of the genre, from the band Burzum.

STRANGER NOW IN PARADISE 9/50 21st July 2023 In news about as surprising as its possible for be for a ninety-six year old with dementia, legendary singer Tony Bennett has provided The Crowdsourced Deathlist with another success. In an eighty-five year career (longer than some TCD successes entire lifespan) he worked with Frank Sinatra and Lady Gaga. A New York Italian-American, Bennett had the choice to go into music, or go into the Mafia. (Or be Frank Sinatra and do both.) Tony was singing publicly by the age of ten, and earning money for it by a teenager. He also studied art, and worked as a copy runner for the AP, before winding up as infantryman in France during the latter stages of World War Two. His experiences crossing the Rhine, and later in liberating concentration camps, turned the young Tony Bennett into a lifelong pacifist. Post-war he quickly developed a reputation as a crooner, and his cover of Because of You sold over a million copies in America in 1951. He’d recorded several number one hits by the mid-1950s, and already showed a capacity for moving with the times, which was to prove crucial to his longevity as rock n roll became in vogue. Whilst crooners fell out of fashion unless they had seven horcruxes hidden at Fort Knox (hi Pat Boone), Bennett expanded his output, involving himself in the successful American jazz industry, and working with the legendary Count Basie. Basie Swings, Bennett Sings was the result, and following that, Tony Bennett became, in 1962, the first male pop singer to perform at Carnegie Hall. A TV regular, he popularised the likes of The Best is Yet to Come, and I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Grammy's came his way, followed by a tsunami of likewise awards. In 1966, he appeared in the film The Oscar, which didn’t win the Oscar. In the 1970s, even time seemed to pass Bennett by, like the other crooners, and he wound up an impoverished drug addict. In 1979, he nearly killed himself with an overdose of cocaine. He survived that, and went on a health kick, and with the help of his sons he made a comeback with The Art of Excellence album. His sons also got him roles alongside The Muppets and Bart Simpson, which introduced him to a much younger audience. (“There’s a swinging town I know called Capital City” – yes this was my introduction to Bennett!) This gave him new fans who would go onto work with him in his elder statesman part of his career. He would work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kd Lang and found the new generations receptive to his Gershwin and Cole Porter classics. By the late 1990s he had his own MTV Unplugged Special, had headlined Glastonbury, and was a multi-millionaire once more. Outside the arts, Bennett participated in the Selma march, was an outspoken critic of apartheid South Africa. Even as his health declined in his nineties, Tony Bennett stated that the only thing that could retire him from music was death itself. True to form, reports stated Bennett kept his own spirits up on his deathbed, singing the Great American Songbook, until the final curtain call. This was only his second appearance on The Crowdsourced Deathlist.

Ted Kacyzinski 7/50 10th June 2023 The Unabomber died, by his own hand, decades after several other people died by his own hand. This gave the Crowdsourced Deathlist another success.

Even the nuttiest of gun nuts don't have that many unless they run a fucking firearms company or moonie cult or something.

Well, he didn't release his health summary for a few years now (although he is required to do it on a yearly basis by law), so no one can really tell. They blame it on the heat though.

30 years ago, 193 passengers and crew killed when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off Zeebrugge,

No dafter than other attempts from people trying to sue companies in the past https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/top-ten-frivolous-lawsuits All American.Her legal action wouldn't have anybody in the States batting an eye lid, maybe. The Liebeck Vs McDonald's case from 1994 is probably the one that most people are familair with. It was the case of the 80 year old who spilt coffee in her lap. From that she suffered 3rd degree burns. While people were busy rolling their eyes at the amount she was awarded which was $2.7 million. That money ended up paying for medical staff, surgery and 24hr care until she died 10 years later. While many might think the amount she was awarded is ridiculous, she probably wouldn't have needed that amount if medical fees were more affordable here in the States. I think the lawsuit made sense think about this they made a coffee so hot that it caused third degree burns and expected her to drink something that boiling hot. Also may I state that making lawsuits cause wayyyy to much as well. Having attempted a sip of a coffee from McD's around that time. Not only did I burn my lip on it, I poured it away even when it had cooled down because it barely tasted of anything remotely resembling coffee.