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Bollocks my constituency North Shropshire leading the news for all the wrong reasons. At least I can hold my head up I never voted for the cunt.

Thread for French sex symbol, actress, cultural icon, animal lover and ...uhh.. occasional racist Brigitte Bardot, now 87 years old. I was inspired to create this thread after her most recent racial faux-pas regarding the people of La Reunion, not the first time she "misspoke"! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/04/brigitte-bardot-fined-calling-french-indian-ocean-islanders/ Health-wise she had breast cancer in the 80s, and overdosed once (that we know of), indicating a history of drugs. After her worldwide career as an actress and occasional singer and model, she became an outspoken animal rights activist. Her current husband has connections to Jean-Marie Le Pen. She also had relationships with deathlist favourite Jean-Louis Trintignant, and, of course, Warren Beatty. But I guess it's her face and posture that is the stuff of legends (and inspiration for Jane Fonda's also iconic Barbarella):

I've just realised his wife was the chairman of Aintree racecourse who topped herself last year. The Grand National is currently sponsored by Randox which is one of the companies that's been paying him. And also one of the companies paid multi-millions by the government for dodgy Covid testing kits. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/tory-linked-firm-involved-in-testing-failure-awarded-new-347m-covid-contract It all stinks worse than the sewage they've allowed into our rivers.

You gay guys are crap at images of sex icons.

Obituary for Barrie Hesketh, actor turned writer and painter who, with his wife Marianne, founded the Mull Little Theatre: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19694518.obituary-barrie-hesketh-actor-writer-transformed-cultural-life-island-mull/ Marianne died of breast cancer in 1984, Hesketh remarried just before his death.

Other French names : Colette Maze (b.1914) : pianist Jean Turco (b.1917) : politician Pierre Brochay (b.1918) : resistant Pierre Baldi (b. 1919) : painter Stéphane Bonduel (b.1919) : politician Francis Rigaud (b.1920) : film director and producer Simone Rozès (b. 1920) : magistrate Marthe Cohn (b. 1920) : resistant Helene Bellanger (b. 1920) : actress Jean Labelle (b. 1920) : painter Jeanne Tomasini (b. 1920) : author Robert Macy (b. 1920) : actor, film director, writer Emile Idée (b. 1920) : bicycle racer Andrée Michel (b. 1920) : sociologist Raymond Février (b. 1920) : politician Lilo (b. 1921) : singer and actress Renée Fournier (b. 1921) : entrepeneur Fernand Frantz (b. 1921) : pastor Germain Marc’hadour (b. 1921) : religious man, writer and teacher Marcel Jaurant Singer (b. 1921) : spy and resistant Pierre Parsus (b. 1921) : painter Philippe Oyhamburu (b. 1921) : dancer, choreograph, musician, author, historian, radio host Pierre Labric (b. 1921) : classical teacher and musician Lucette Finas (b. 1921) : author Jacqueline Ferriere (b. 1921): attrasse André Jacob (b. 1921) : philosopher Mélanie Berger Volle (b. 1921) : fashion designer You can add to this the ones that I posted on the Idea and Possibilities for 2022 thread such as Edgar Morin, Dominique Marcas, Léon Cligman, Pierre Soulages, Francis Huré, René de Obaldia, Marguerite Jauzelon… who are much more famous and have already appeared on this forum

The Booker Prize was awarded yesterday and so I realised my list has not been updated since 2018 but the past winners are showing remarkable staying power Surviving Booker Prize Winners Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946) Eleanor Catton (1985) Richard Flanagan (1961) Marlon James (1970) Paul Beatty (1962) George Saunders (1958) Anna Burns (1962) Bernadine Evaristo (1959) Douglas Stuart (1976) Damon Galgut (1963)

Thank you for your service.

Ah, he was alluding to Leicester East. Claudia Webbe MP is in court right now and is going to be sentenced today.

Absolutely the correct thing to do. Been involved in cronyism and backhanders for his mates for years. Totally in it for himself and his pals (mostly nobs and knob ends). Don't think I've disliked a current Tory MP as much apart from Mark Francois and Ministerial code breaker Priti Patel. Liz Truss and Andrea Leadsom are loathsome creatures....actually, I should never have started this list....

By-Election is on. He has just resigned from the commons.

No change there then. The RF traditionally gather at Sandringham for Christmas. Source, please.

https://www.is.fi/jaakiekko/art-2000008379318.html Antti-Jussi Tiitola, creator of the Titan hockey stick used by Wayne Gretzky has died at the age of 84 from cancer.

What happens when you are abandoned naked in London's dockland and you have to dress yourself from a bag of clothes left outside a charity shop

If I remember correctly, the BBC has something like 2,000 pre-written obituaries ready to go. I do wonder how far down the "not likely to die any time soon" list they go, for instance if Harry Kane was run over by a bus tomorrow would they have something ready for him?

https://news.yahoo.com/meet-104-old-chen-ping-160615001.html A new "last living" member of the Flying Tigers has emerged, 104-year old Chen Ping Ching.

Deathrace Form Guide #15 Doddie Weir MND afflicted Scots rugby legend for whom the diagnosis kicked a previous life into touch and spawned a fundraising bonanza that's seen an OBE, Helen Rollason Award and the instigation of a rugby cup (to be played in perpetuity between Scotland and Wales). Doddy's positivity and profile have kept him in the public eye but this is a cruel condition and yer man is tough, not immortal. Likely to be brought into play on a significant scale with regard to DDP action. Deathracers may be less inclined. But MND cracks on too, and is something of a twat amongst terminal conditions for its ability to surprise in a bad way.

Seems to have died in 2019. https://www.odella.fr/avis-de-deces/monier-paulette-adrienne-2019-09-29-compiegne-1706295/

She intends to appeal so a recall petition cannot happen until the appeal has been completed. This one has been kicked into the New Year I would suggest

Suspended sentence.

Currently ploughing through Camelot and the Vision of Albion by Geoffrey Ashe (1971). Which set me off Googling a few items. One thing I didn't expect to find is that the veteran and highly obitable author himself is still around, 98 years old.

American dynamicist/educator Paul A. Libby (wiki) supposedly dead at 100.

Ernest Wilson, a founding member of the Clarendonians, has died. He was 69. https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20211103/ernest-wilson-founding-member-clarendonians-dies-69

I think the 66 boys have been a bit unlucky through. I mean the year before Hurst, Peters and Moore won with the West Ham the cup winners cup and 8 of the 11 of them are still alive. At least Five of them are still well enough to have attended West Ham’s match tonight.