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In fact Mabel as a name has been steadily increasing in popularity in England & Wales in recent years. In 2021 (the most recent figures available) 839 baby girls were registered as Mabel, putting the name in 59th place. A famous bearer of the name is the singer-songwriter Mabel, who is Neneh Cherry's daughter.

"Why people think the NHS is struggling" is not the same as "Why the NHS is struggling". Two of my best mates are consultant doctors, one in Acute Medicine, the other in A&E and at our meet-up over Christmas, the A&E doctor (who is technically still a junior at the moment and has been on the picket lines) said he fully understands the appeal of Australia and has seen plenty of doctors make the jump on social media and it looks amazing. They both shared a few details of the shambles that is hospital care in 2023-24, how winter pressures are now all-year-round pressures and it felt very much like they were shielding the worst of things from the non-doctors in our party to avoid us having a meltdown at the state of our healthcare system. The problem in the 21st century is this belief that whatever the voters think is automatically the right call and that said voters are 100% convinced that whatever they think is correct. And, on the flip side, engagement in politics has dropped dramatically, political literacy and critical thinking are virtually non-existent and misinformation is everywhere. It's led the rise of the far-right, the Brexit disaster, the Covid Conspiracy nonsense and 101 things besides. People are looking for simple explanations because they're not intelligent enough, or committed enough, to look into the details of how the world works and the complex reasons and histories of why situations develop. The NHS is struggling because too many immigrants are coming in is simplistic nonsense. The NHS is struggling for a huge number of reasons, from lack of doctors numbers to underfunding, to a chronic lack of social care provision. Blaming immigrants ignores the fact that many immigrants come to work in the NHS is a range of capacities, from clinical care to porters and cleaners. It ignores that the vast majority of immigrants who come to this country are young, fit and healthy which means they use the NHS a lot less than, say, our rapidly aging population who are living longer and, in many cases, more sickly. Perhaps that has something to do with pressures on the NHS too? Wow, what a thought...

Make that in two weekends... First, thank you for the patience everyone! There have been four deaths since this pool started. 1. @Spade_Cooley got us started with Johnny Ruffo on November 10th 2. @time is next up with Brigit Forsyth on December 1st. 3. @diego scored with Glynis Johns on January 4th. The other death, Richard McKenzie, also died on December 1st and is one of @justonecornetto subs. Maybe a rule in a future version will include two subs = 1 of the 3 deaths needed to win? Unsure... Side-notes: I apologize for the format of the entry list and some of the other sections. I will work on it and hopefully roll out a better looking/working version by next round. I also need to retire the "List of the Missed", it is just too much work to track all these shows. Might try a different version of it in the future...

Woodrow Wilson died on this day 100 years ago, aged 67. - Wilson's actual first name was Thomas, and he went by his middle name- derived from his mother's maiden name. While his grandfather James was an abolitionist, his father Joseph supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. - Wilson is the only US president to receive a PhD degree, awarded to him by Johns Hopkins University in 1886. He would later serve as a professor of history and political science, and would be promoted to the president of Princeton University in 1902. For these reasons, he has been nicknamed "The Schoolmaster" by some. - Wilson's tenure at Princeton got New Jersey's Democratic Party officials to encourage him to run for governor, and he won the 1910 election. Wilson quickly became a rising star in the party, and was the Democratic nominee for president in 1912- winning in a landslide due to the Republicans splitting between Theodore Roosevelt and the incumbent William Howard Taft. - Wilson's presidency is known for introducing the Federal Reserve, failing to stay out of World War I after three years of isolationism (leading to the League of Nations, which earned him the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize), and screening the first movie shown at the White House- The Birth of a Nation (Wilson was horribly racist and openly tried to remove Black people from federal jobs). - In 1919, Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him bedbound- his wife Edith would determine which documents would be given to him, and some jest she was the first female US president. By 1920, news of his condition reached the public, and although he wished to seek a third term, his political party quickly disassociated with him to find a healthier candidate. He was unable to attend Warren G. Harding's inauguration, although the two of them had tea together the day before. His health would not improve over the last three years of his life.

Now the other Steve Brown, the lyricist, composer and record producer, has died. He worked on West End Musicals Spend Spend Spend and I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical. He composed many of the songs and jingles on loads of programmes such as Spitting Image in the 80s/90s, Dead Ringers and The Ant and Dec Show (including Wonkey Donkey).

I register births in the UK and it is a very popular name at the moment. Mabel is here to stay!

3/2/2024 46 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset +3 20 Barry Ryan — Eloise +1 14 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 00 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night -6

Dropped him from the DDp because tbh I got bored and distracted by shiny new oldies, and 20 places isn't a lot. My trying to guess who would be picked has led to two of us bringing back Nadim Sawalha after a long absence and nobody picking Brian Glanville. Or Derry Irvine!

Don Murray, Oscar-nominated star of Marilyn Monroe's Bus Stop, dead at 94.

I am hearing he has died. Anyone got anything official ? Here's something Jonnie Irwin dead aged 50

Only protestants edit Wikipedia.

Bob Odenkirk (1962) guest-starred as marriage counselor Dr. Phil Gunty. He had a huge health scare a couple years ago.

3/Feb/2024 45 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 29 Barry Ryan — Eloise +4 12 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows -6 06 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night

Nixon will always be the funniest President for me. Thanks Futurama. Though I also have a lot of nostalgia for making fun of Dubya, especially given at the time I just thought of him as a dope without being aware of the full extent of his disaster. Trump's 2016 campaign was hilarious at first, when we were all still under the assumption he was a joke who wouldn't actually get anywhere. Then him winning took all the humor out of it. EDIT: Though I'll give Trump this - I still do love his playground nicknames for his opponents. Meatball Ron is my favorite though 1-in-47 Kasich is a real underrated one.

Updated for Carl Weathers, who won't be making any more stews.

If you look around and you think everyone’s a moron, that’s often a clue.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it’s fucking flying hot tub. This poor old sod gets more famous the longer he’s six feet under.

2nd January I'm basing this on that the song i'm downvoting is fucking annoying in my head and the other song is not The Kinks. 37 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 30 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows -6 21 Barry Ryan — Eloise +4 12 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 

As reported by @chilean wayin the Centenarian Deadpool thread,Catherine Van Der Linden died in 26 January Catherina van der Linden was born in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands and died in Adelaide, she was the oldest person alive in Australia as of March 31, 2023, now that person is Marija Ruljancich born in Lorci, Vis, now Croatia and living in Melbourne , Victoria. She was also the oldest living person born in the Netherlands as of 11 June 2022, which is now Marina van der Es-Siewers born on 4 March 1913 in Van Ewijcksluis, North Holland, and now living in Hippolytushoef, North Holland

January: Jason Smith

In accordance with tradition:

That's Neste, Finnish oil company. Read Wikipedia, but at least read it well...