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No doubt, she is on the 2024 list.

As discussed some pages above by me and @RoverAndOut it's not going to fulfil our dreams as of now - they don't appear to be committing to anything substantial just yet, as being that honest is electorally daft . We're just going to have to wait until after they're in to see what they actually do - I'm with you on this though, if they sit on the fence for a year never mind five, I'm going to be pissed off.

Previous post: Following post: 14 + 1 = 15 Corrected list (with my points): 27/Jun/2024 35 Kiesza — Hideaway 33 Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars — Uptown Funk 32 Pitbull ft. Kesha — Timber +4 32 Years & Years — King 30 Justin Bieber — Love Yourself 30 Adele — Hello 29 Little Mix — Black Magic 29 Ella Henderson — Ghost 28 Calvin Harris — Summer 26 Magic — Rude 25 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — Rather Be 23 Cheryl Cole ft. Tinie Tempah — Crazy Stupid Love 23 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj — Bang Bang 23 Ellie Goulding — Love Me Like You Do 23 Sam Smith — Stay With Me 22 Omi — Cheerleader 22 Lilly Wood & The Prick — Prayer In C 21 David Guetta ft. Sam Martin — Lovers On The Sun 21 Sigma ft. Paloma Faith — Changing 21 Mr Probz — Waves 21 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill — Gecko (Overdrive) 21 Justin Bieber — What Do You Mean? 21 KDA ft. Tinie Tempah & Katy B — Turn The Music Louder 21 Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones — I Got U 21 Sigma — Nobody To Love 21 Tinie Tempah ft. Jess Glynne — Not Letting Go 21 Rita Ora — I Will Never Let You Down 21 Route 94 ft. Jess Glynne — My Love 21 Jess Glynne — Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself 20 Dvbbs & Borgeous ft. Tinie Tempah — Tsunami 20 5 Seconds Of Summer — She Looks So Perfect 20 Aloe Blacc — The Man 20 Secondcity — I Wanna Feel 20 Calvin Harris ft. John Newman — Blame 20 Take That — These Days 20 Sam Smith ft. John Legend — Lay Me Down 20 Lost Frequencies — Are You With Me 20 David Zowie — House Every Weekend 19 Jess Glynne — Hold My Hand 19 Rixton — Me And My Broken Heart 18 Pharrell Williams — Happy 18 Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea — Problem 17 One Direction — Drag Me Down 17 Will.I.Am ft. Cody Wise — It’s My Birthday 16 Nico & Vinz — Am I Wrong 15 Rachel Platten — Fight Song 15 Jason Derulo — Want To Want Me 14 Sigala — Easy Love 14 Ben Haenow — Something I Need 14 Sam Smith — Money On My Mind 13 Meghan Trainor — All About That Bass 11 Cheryl Cole — I Don’t Care 11 Justin Bieber — Sorry 00 Ed Sheeran — Thinking Out Loud -6

Mentioned on the BBC News tonight that he was not present for the traditional opening of the gates at Glastonbury this morning, only Emily was there. Reporter noted it's the first time they can remember that he has not been in attendance, although he did add that he is expected to make an appearance on the stage at some point. Thought it worth noting.

27/6/2024 58 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 56 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 54 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 33 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down -2 19 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 15 The Jam - The Eton Rifles +3 13 R. Dean Taylor— There’s A Ghost In My House +1 00 David Bowie — No Sound Or Vision due to Death The best two are the bottom two

If they are in that Wiki list above all well and good. Otherwise PM me the movie title and I will make a decision based on merit but still on holiday atm

Tove Jansson died on this day 23 years ago, aged 86. - Jansson was part of an artistic family; her father Viktor was a sculptor, her mother Signe was an illustrator, and her brother Lars was a cartoonist. - Jansson would write her first children's book in 1928, called Sara and Pelle and Neptune's Children. It was not published for another 5 years. - During World War II, Jansson would serve as a political cartoonist for Garm magazine. She would lampoon both Hitler and Stalin: - In 1945, Jansson wrote the first book in the series that catapulted her to fame- The Moomins and the Great Flood. The donkey-like trolls in the book became a cultural phenomenon in Jansson's native Finland and beyond, having been adapted into TV shows, movies, and two theme parks (one in Finland and one in Japan). The last book Jansson wrote in the series was 1993's Songs from Moominvalley: - Jansson would also illustrate Swedish translations of The Hobbit and Alice in Wonderland, and had a career painting murals in places such as schools and hospitals.

I was out this evening so I missed it. Looks like I won't be needing BBC iPlayer.

Problem is (and I hope and pray he gets the supermajority the Tories are warning against), I am absolutely 100% going to vote for him and his obfuscation and refusal to engage is starting to really piss ME off. It's infuriating. I get that the Tories are shit, and you want to focus on that, but show yourself to be engaged and switched on and treat the voters with at least a basic level of honesty. I totally understand their reticence, the public have screwed them over time and again but Sunak is an absolute bellend and he should be telling us that. I was expecting a much more combative performance compared to the first debate a month ago, but essentially it was a repeat. Sunak lied about tax at every opportunity and introduced the new "whatever the issue, Labour will make it worse, mark my words" and Starmer said Sunak was lying and that Labour will fix everything but in a serious and responsible way. Totally depressing.

I really had problems watching this. But it was like a road traffic incident - I couldn't look away. Politicians are really really stupid sometimes. No matter how much you prepare, you are never really ready for the questions, some so skewed or nuanced you will never satisfy the questioner. I think that's where Starmer falls down in these "debates". As a lawyer you would prepare having been handed the other side's evidence in advance - here that simply doesn't work, he's not an agile performer who can leap from rocky outcrop to green pastures. Sunak on the other hand is a prick who thinks debating like you do in front of crowds roaring you on is a win. In fact he came across as a fear-mongering dick who made up almost everything and shouted down a lot of Starmer's answers. Hopefully most people with any sense made up their minds a long time ago. My main takeaways from today are the basics as follows: 1. Sunak will cut your taxes. Ok then, let's look at what that means. That means he is going to cut everyone's taxes. Given the tax system in this country that means that tax cuts will proportionally favour the rich and wealthy. Like Sunak. I see little in the way of recovery of the loss of that revenue stream to the Treasury. Now I'm old enough to remember Thatcher's government who at least had public utilities to sell off to fund tax cuts, but like the current government they weren't interested in building schools or hospitals or investing in public services - indeed, I'd go so far to say that in making certain parts of the country poorer, that actually made them qualify for help from...Europe. The country is crying out for better everything, but Sunak says, I'll give you a little back, I'll take a lot for myself and nothing will actually get better. 2. Meantime, Starmer is promising more Blair. Collegiate decision making, tackling social ills blah bah blah, but pairs that with inviting big business to sit alongside him and hope that growth follows. His difficulty with that message is that people remember how their towns and cities gave Labour their vote and then were forgotten about. He also can't promise jam tomorrow to any great effect because the Tories stopped baking bread 14 fucking years ago. While he seemingly has good intentions, by swinging from Corbyn's incredulous plans for spending to a minimal amount of spending, people can't see where that improvement is going to come from - and he's not a great message carrier. The guy who said "are these guys the best we have" was simply a tosser. I'll bet he longs for the days of Johnson, full of populism and colour but with all the ability of Tess Daly. I thought Starmer was a little better at analysing the problems in the round - get the waiting lists down lower crime and get people off welfare and back to work, and incentivise bosses to do that. Sunak on the other hand is content with how Britain is with it's outlandish National Debt, it's crumbling infrastructure and wasteland town centres, but hey, here's a couple of quid to make you shut up, and hate those horrid benefit scroungers and those nasty nasty immigrants he keeps letting into the country. Anything is preferable to the current incumbents, but another round of Red Tories isn't that appealing either. So anyway, Binface for PM.

Oh, I meant by him. But probably also by them!

Writer Juliet Ace is 85 today. In addition to numerous radio plays, shes written for TV, including EastEnders and El Dorado, and stage, as well as books, including a memoir of actor Ternec rigby. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer in October 2013, and given a 50-50 chance of surviving until Christmas that year.

“a couple of us got sick”. Very gnomic, Neil. I’m sure Ian McNabb could have filled in for any of Crazy Horse, so presumably Neil is one of the sick.

Well colour me shocked. Greg Hands lying?? Blimey. Er...

I'm in my third year of picking him for the DDP. Should he be able to exist any more? Am I prolonging his existence by picking him?

27/6/2024 58 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 56 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes 54 David Bowie - Life on Mars? 35 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 19 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 12 The Jam - The Eton Rifles +4 12 R. Dean Taylor— There’s A Ghost In My House 04 David Bowie — Sound And Vision -6

One week to go if you want to enter the side game. Personally I did not know that Philip Davies (8,000 quid down the bookies on himself to lose his seat) is married to Esther McVey (minister for seemingly nothing). Their respective constituencies are hardly adjacent, how does that work? Do they each have homes in those places? Will they be spending more time with each other post-election? Is the prospect of both of them losing their seats enticing? I'm simply way too peak excitement for the election I guess.

A DDP LotM, picked 2008, never again. I remember Night at the Museum, also my first definitive memory of watching Dick Van Dyke in something. RIP.

Christiane Mercelis, Belgian tennis player, dead at 92. Just Sedgman, the most major name, left from that list.

It's been apparent that updates to the site have been more sparse, and those who can read between the lines could probably tell that it meant my time as front page co-host is flaming out. I'm making it official now - I'll be stepping down as DDP co-host at the end of this year and we'll need someone new to write down whatever Wikipedia tells you to think about this recently-deceased Romanian stenographer. Wait, no, that's a vintage LotLer if there ever was one... But yes, I decided back in November that 2024 would be my last year, it's been an interesting ride and exposed me to some fascinating stories I wouldn't have otherwise known if I didn't have to write their obit. But I am tired now and it is time to pass on the reins. I don't have any successor lined up at the moment, so if any of you are interested let me know.

Just 7 additional but note Eastham never played for Winterbottom. He made his debut for Ramsey in May 1963. Blunstone McGuiness Holliday McNeil Crawford O'Grady Hinton Sad news about Tommy Banks. Last England International who was born in the 1920's. Colin McDonald takes over the poisoned chalice now.

Won't be Gove anyway. Inconsiderate bastard standing down

Front page of the Daily Star. Brought back memories.

Is that like the German David Icke's website ?

Former British and Commonwealth boxing champion in the flyweight and super-flyweight class, Chris Edwards, dead at 41 from a heart attack: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5944169/chris-edwards-dead-at-41-former-british-boxing-champion-suspected-heart-attack/