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Officially stepping down as a candidate.

Endorses Harris.

Lots of pictures on Twitter from Tom’s first “meet and greet” event in years yesterday.

Update on what she was doing at the Republican convention, clearly there on the fringes, there was a scathing piece in yesterday's Guardian making it clear that Truss only got as far as being in a long line of people allowed to shake the hand of a passing J D Vance, and that unfortunately for Truss the one emerging photo was blurry so likely won't scream "posed essential picure of high powered political figure." Interestingly, The Guardian also devoted a page to a serious discussion of whether former PMs should face strong limitations on what they're able to do, not as biased as you might think, Blair was singled out as a serial offender, selling his skills to the highest paying dictatorial autocrat and - if anything - a worse example of bad behaviour than more recent cases because, basically, he's more able and skilled than chancers like Bojo and flakes like Truss.

Back in hospital with pneumonia, and on a feeding tube. https://x.com/geoffreyboycott/status/1815036416046375232?s=46

Marianne Bernadotte has lived in a Stockholm care home the last 4 years. She, Marianne Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (bedbound for the last two years since miraculously surviving covid), Princess Felicitas of Salm-Horstmar, Princess Mikasa (heart failure, two strokes this year, currently hospitalised etc), Induratana Paribatra (is she even alive?) and Ashi Tashi Dorji are all over 100 years old. Marie Christine of Württemberg will be 100 in a few months and is very frail. Sheikh Salem has been seemingly hospitalised for the last three years (and has been in failing health for two decades), Queen Ratna has been in poor health for years and Jamshid of Zanzibar was dying in 2020. It's a small miracle that the list has been without deaths for more than nine months.

Jerry Fuller, minor US hitmaker with a version of Tennessee Waltz but better known as a songwriter including Young Girl for Gary Puckett, reportedly dead: https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/jerry-fuller-dead-songwriter-young-girl-travelin-man-1236079249/

Paul Lederman l'un des producteurs français les plus célèbres est mort !

Bored of hearing about this lad now. He’s dead. Can we move on and not play into the hands of media sensationalism and conspiracy theorists by giving it air?

Really sad news. That choon was a real floor filler back in the day. 40 years, just days over, ago. Hard to believe. RIP.

Something new on former Afghan prime minister Mohammed Hasan Sharq. According to him, on paper his birthdate is the 17th of July 1924 (not 1925?) but he could be "a year or two older or younger". He is also releasing a new book. There also seems to be a new clip here at 20:02. I think he won't die off-radar.

This parody piece in Private Eye could quite easily not have been.

So can I officially add twunt to my list of qualifications on my CV now?

Ian Levine has tweeted that Evelyn Thomas (High Energy) has died

The death of Ray Reardon takes me to 8 points here.

"There is literally total asymmetry of how the people here see the rule of law" - another piece of evidence that Emily Maitlis is the best in the business.

Seeing Nick reminded me of Euginia Cooney as well. Little concerning that it does not look like she has put anything out on Youtube for about 5 months. I am hoping that she is just stopping it and trying to get herself better. Maybe she is in Hospital on a program to get better. That is my prayer for her anyways.

Pan Xiaoting, chinese mukbang streamer, dies from overeating, on camera: https://www.odditycentral.com/news/24-year-old-mukbang-streamer-dies-live-on-stream-due-to-overeating.html

A very fascinating Telegraph obituary focusing on the fact Princess Margaret and Margaret Thatcher both enjoyed his comedy.

I'm picking Noam like a pensioner at a garden centre.

Alan who I'm 100% sure is DEFINITELY going to die this time.

You have no need to apologise, take all the time you need to recover from your tough time. That's the priority.

I hope Jimmy has an alibi…

Daniel Ellsberg dead at 92.

DEAD: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/11/15/countess-avon-intellectual-independent-minded-widow-prime-minister/