YoungWillz

Leo Sayer has been hospitalised with all sorts of problems in Australia for 3 weeks: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/leo-sayer-hospitalised-after-becoming-31158845

Firstly, is she ok?

Thank god someone read the memo right. "We are going to start Starmer's speech with a Glitter bomb." Out walks Gary Glitter...

Well, I'm annoyed. I've missed the beginning of Tenable. Well there was a lot of end points with so little as to how to get there. While the assumption is that, of course, his conference know the policies, he seems to have forgotten that he is talking to the public, who don't know. So all very inspiring, rallying and aspirational, little meat on the bones. He finally remembered Scotland after nearly an hour, which was nice. But it isn't only Scotland where he'll have to work hard for votes. However, an appeal to long term stability and rebalancing the economy is always welcome. It was like a half time talk at the football.

I'll get to that when he's finished.

Glitter improves everything. He's been talking for 25 minutes and I haven't heard a policy out of his mouth.

Starmer gets a standing ovation and a protester who soaks him in summat! Hadn't even started.

I'm a lot more cautious these days. The obvious signs of Mr or Mrs Hoaxer are: Minimal amount of tweets. Recent account. The words "minutes ago" or "moments ago". And yet folk keep falling for it without checking the real source.

I saw this and decided a four post Twitter account set up in May was probably one of those hoax thingies. I remain of that opinion until told otherwise.

Wish, really wish, I could criticise Yvette Cooper's conference speech in detail. If anything, she danced over issues. There will be all this police, all this locking up of bad eggs, all this dismissal of bent coppers - with no idea how to address the police recruitment crisis. Never mind prison conditions or prison officers - not a peep on that. She was very strong on going after domestic abusers. If those being abused are women. Because after all Yvette, women don't abuse men and men don't get raped, do they? Still throwing their hands in the air about knives. They keep getting told to look at the Glasgow programme from donkeys' years ago - that's where you get a grip. Otherwise, there was a lot of aspiration - a speech yet again a Tory Home Secretary could have delivered (if that Tory Home Secretary wasn't the nutter Braverman). And I do not know who writes her jokes. Don't they have professionals they could actually use? Regards, etc etc.

Cross posting Hughes Van Ellis' death report:

Sir James Jonathan Benn, 4th Baronet of the Benn baronetcy of Old Knoll, death notice (aged 90): https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/benn-notices_53845 Died playing golf. Heir is his son Robert Ernest Benn (b. 1963).

Sacked from the job I don't have? See above. The Israeli politicians failed their own people. The terrorists' actions in this are disgusting and wrong. Netanyahu is setting a political course that history tells us is wrong.

Of course you probably already know but Chuck Feeney QO: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-67059503

What is? I'm sure that there are extremists on both sides. In fact, I'll go as far as to say there are extremists on both Governments. That does not mean that every Palestinian is a terrorist, nor does it mean that every Israeli citizen wants the genocide of the Palestinian people. I'm with the words of mostly everybody that Israel has a perfect right to defend itself - that is the right of every sovereign nation. However, I find myself also in total agreement with the UN that a siege of the Gaza Strip disallowing food, water, medical assistance or power to over two million people for the sake of the death of some terrorists who may be there is unacceptable under international law. No-one can leave the Gaza Strip. Thus it is effectively a prison - akin to say, oh I don't know, a concentration camp? Bombing the shit out of hospitals, schools and churches and denying the citizens there the basics of survival is an abomination. Citizens with no skin in the game will die - the old, the sick, the wounded, then the children and then the women. The last to die will be the fit men, some of whom will be the very terrorists they are trying to get. If you don't see the equivalence, I suggest you revise for a history exam especially on Netanyahu. Defending yourself and proposing committing a genocide are universes apart.

I'm sure Hitler had the same sentiments.

I'm going to say anybody who is that unfunny and as unaccomplished at impressionism should not be as mildly famous as he is. He's managed to unmaster his talents so much, he'd barely get a spot on This Morning. IMO of course.

UK's fattest, Jason Holton, news (all in the headline): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12610297/Britains-fattest-man-weighs-47-STONE-eats-10-000-calories-day-fears-die-unless-gets-miracle-weight-loss-jab.html

You have been truly blessed.

Ah, some good news at last.

Rachel Reeves has conferenced her speech. Now, I'm no economist, so I'll have to look at her speech like an actual voter. I think she has drawn on both wings of America. She talked about making things in Britain and growing the British economy in some protectionist manner like a little MAGA offshoot, while also promising bottom up middle out growth like a Democrat. There was an awful lot of "Conservative Party/Government" - ah the old look at the state of us. Then goes on to essentially promise what we has trailed before. Look at all the taxes the Tories have piled on us - well, we won't be able to reduce taxes, much as we would like to - but we will slap a bunch of taxes on a whole lot of stuff. Then follows that up with we can't tax and spend our way out of trouble! No promises on HS2 - except an inquiry into the failings! Not a word - not one- on inflation. That troubles me somewhat - all this talk of raising a living wage and higher wages without any plan to deal with inflation is a fool's road - is she hoping for those damnable Tories to fix that before the election? Labour have always promised to abolish the non-dom status - then never do it when in Government - Sunak's achilles heel, if that isn't delivered now, they will be in trouble. She will get all that fraudulently obtained COVID money back - by spending hundred of thousands, if not millions, on a crack force to get it back? Come on love, what this country needs is to treat tax dodgers with the same force as they do with benefit scroungers. Talking of which, a skilful swerve on any reform of the Universal Credit system - not a peep, nor any hope for the WASPI women or reform of the sanctions regime or the two child benefit cap. There is a danger they are going down the same rocky road as they did in 2019 - over-promising to the extent that folk don't actually believe things will be delivered. She wants to be the first female Chancellor, she says. Don't push that message, we all remember what the last female PMs were like! Also, when you are talking about the benefits to the whole of the country, it might be an idea to mention Scotland more than once! Regards, etc etc.

Let's have a look at her then: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12610077/Julie-Goodyear-Coronation-Street-seen-dementia.html

David Benedictus, writer probably best known for the first Winnie-The Pooh novel in over 80 years Return To The Hundred Acre Wood, reportedly dead: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/west-end-jolyon-maugham-cambridge-david-bbc-b2426553.html IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070836/

Report of the death of Herschel Savage, from Debbie Does Dallas and Memphis Cathouse Blues: Went on to have a TV and Theater (sic) career. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184722/ IAFD: https://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=hsavage/gender=male