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Death Notice for Sir Dennis Walters, former Tory MP for Westbury from 1964-1992, aged 92: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252604/walters

Luisa Mattioli, Italian actress and Roger Moore's third wife and mother of three of his children has died aged 85: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10062491/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Roger-Moores-feisty-wife-dies-18-years-left-Italian-actress.html

Was there ever such a time?

Ocht, Rodgers and Hammerstein Estates are on the phone.

Someone also reports that Gayleen Pease, the other Scruff on the record also died in June (though reliability?) anyway:

I was fascinated by John Springate as a lad. Just saying.

Glitter Band with John Rossall - Angel Face (UK #4, April 1974)

John Rossall is reportedly dead: https://twitter.com/Hook_Official5/status/1445385901002067978 and https://louderthanwar.com/john-rossall-the-glitter-band-rip/ Session muso on It's Not Unusual and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore. Co-wrote Angel Face, Let's Get Together Again and Goodbye My Love. One for the UK Singles Thread update.

If anything @gcreptile for the DDP this would confirm a date of birth of 1 October 1981 for Deborah James.

And Deborah James has a reportedly wild 40th birthday party: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10057553/BBC-podcast-presenter-Deborah-James-incurable-cancer-celebrates-40th.html

Sophie Sabbage died around 1 October: Apparently Zoe Ball mentioned her on Pause for Thought. Need I say - a DDP Pick.

Cynthia Harris, stage and screen actress best known this side of the pond for her portrayal of Wallis Simpson in the 1978 TV series Edward And Mrs Simpson for which she deservedly received a BAFTA nod, being reported dead by actress Finnerty Steeves: Probably better known in the US for her portrayal of Sylvia Buchman in Mad About You. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364576/ IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cynthia-harris-94681

Countess Ruth Beatrice Meyer-Bechtler, wife of Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, has died aged 96: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252591/crawford The former MP and peer really should be on radar now. He is of course a current DDP pick.

Lost their way in my opinion. They are spending a lot of time exhorting the benefits of Scotland while not actually seeming to be on the arc of improvement in people's lives. Yes, they are spending a lot of money fending off Westminster shite, but I see little in the way of taking control of what they do have, and making things much better all round. Think they have done all they can, ideas seem scarce except for the big one of Independence (shock horror, imagine them standing for that!). I'm still of the opinion a federal UK would be much better, allowing the countries to govern themselves - why not aim for that at the very least as a first step? They should push for that, especially as it looks like the more autonomous regions of England are doing better on the deal. There's been some real shockers (on education and the Glesca hospital, Ferrier's trip north). But it's difficult to criticise Sturgeon as a person or an international figure. They will remain in power, however. Have you seen Douglas "three jobs" Ross? Or the millionaire Labour leader Sarwar?

Well a) I'd have thought it nonsense not to try and change folks' minds - isn't that politics? I slag everyone off - you've not been paying attention, lol. b) In the words of Mr Mackey, all politicians are bad, mkay? c) Yeah, both main parties seem to have abandoned what they would traditionally be seen as. I'd say Labour abandoned their stance a long time ago - difficult to see what they actually do stand for, imo. It will be interesting if folk stick with the Tories, despite them being shafted on food, petrol, free trade, Christmas, tax hikes, jobs etc etc. d) Do I rant? Rarely these days, I stick up a post of a feeling at the time when occasion allows. And that is open to opposition. Yet, sometimes that is continually dismissed as Nationalism - again, you've not been listening. Dismissing points and deflecting onto the character of a politician and talking about anything else seems to be de rigeur. But I do listen, and I can see a vague reason why folk would vote if they vote at all for the Tories - but I'm still baffled why folk would have a definite positive vote for anyone these days. e) see b)

Drugs Act is seriously out of date. But it continues to be enforced heavily against users. Now I don't know enough about the "county lines" issues they are experiencing down South, but it's still a lock 'em up or treat them from time to time policy. So they are hypocrites. Healthcare isn't being given the priority here (although the Drugs Courts up here help a little). You can't occasionally treat overdoses and send them out onto the street again. And you can't lock them up anymore as the drugs problem within the prison sytem actually ends up with more users coming out. And yet they sit on their hands...

So no answer? Again, you concentrate on my exact point about changed times - on which we are agreed I'd say. No point in trying to start a fight with someone who agrees with you. I'm not about debate - I welcome opposing points of view, it may help me understand why people vote for this man and his party. Possibly the shite they were up against in 2019 helped of course. But anyone who actually thinks he's a PM in control, across the detail of issues, a statesman, a leader, yada yada yada - I'd love to hear it. Kermit? Ancient Greek? The use of the word "hecatomb" on Andrew Marr's show? I don't understand.

Not really, just adds to his list of crimes, ha! Remember this is the man and the party that criticises Scotland for the number of drug deaths, while retaining all of the powers that would tackle the numbers - and refuses to anything about it. Yeah, times have changed. Years ago folk would have welcomed the deaths of drug users, and many still do - get the scum off our streets they would have cried. Now, it's a legitimate health issue, now weaponised by the Tories - led by a drug snorting serial adulterer, yad yada yada. But you miss the point. My point wasn't about that - it's a fact which folk would have jeered years ago. Any answers on the actual policies this bunch are following? Any praise in response to my actual point?

Not sure how true this is, but Anthony O'Shaughnessy, who featured as a 13 year old on the cover of Dexy's Midnight Runners' album cover for Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, has apparently died: Here's a news report from 11 years ago?

Italian goalkeeper Daniel Leone, forced to retire after a recurrence of a brain tumour, dead at 28: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/daniel-leone-dead-goalkeeper-cancer-25131909

If you had said years ago that a banker with Goldman Sachs, responsible for the biggest financial crash, was now in charge of the country's purse strings, you would have laughed. If you had said years ago that the spawn of a domestic abuser who has proved himself a drug snorting serial adulterer at the centre of cronyism and corruption was now Prime Minister, you would have laughed. I mean there are so many lies about to be told at this conference, so enjoy the lies. I think my biggest problem is they say there have been problems, they know about the problems, even before those problems were placed in writing and they have done nothing about it. Meantime, they say, we saved people especially the poorest, during the pandemic (which isn't over by the way). Now it's time to place the heaviest tax burden on the country since WWII, which progressively hits the worst off worst. Boris does go on about high wage high skilled jobs of the future. Meantime, they are forgetting that there still need to be care workers, bus drivers, abbatoir workers, fruit pickers, etc etc etc. And you know those high skilled high wage jobs of the future? Those are precisely the jobs they are proposing to give out visas to those from abroad. Ah well, by their deeds they shall be weighed in scales of history.

Cross posting Earle Wells' death report here, as he was mentioned in the OP.

Earle Wells, winner of the Gold Medal of the Flying Dutchman class in sailing at the 1964 Olympics for New Zealand, dead at 87: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/former-olympic-gold-medallist-earle-wells-dies-aged-87/Z5L7A6GNKM7LGRR4A3NDXOULTM/ He's a Scavenger Hunt miss.

Ah. Cardinal numbers.

No surprises for Mel Gooding: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/03/mel-gooding-obituary