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    Ray Lewis, former Deputy Mayor of London under Boris Johnson who Boris rewarded with a CBE in his resignation honours, reportedly dead: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-academy-bbc-city-hall-newham-b1149034.html

     

    Not only were there allegations of inappropriate behaviour against him (he resigned), old Boris squashed any inquiry into those allegations - the things Wiki doesn't tell you.

     

    Dear god, that and Boris' lusting after that American woman and misusing public funds allegedly to fund her, it's a wonder he hasn't been strung up by his bollocks by the hoi polloi.

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    On 04/09/2017 at 01:44, Joey Russ said:

    One of the topics that I am the most interested in is the counterculture of the 1960's and early 1970's. There is just something about that era that always seem so fascinating to me, and makes me wonder what influential figures are still around from that era. So behold, I have made a list of people who have put in major influence from the counterculture in one way or another. I also do wonder which of these will be the last survivor of this group of very influential individuals. Anyways, here are the names:

     

    Richard Alpert; professor, spiritual teacher; (1931 - 2019)

    Bill Ayers; activist, professor; (1944 - )

    Joan Baez; musician, activist; (1941 - )

    Sonny Barger; Hells Angels; (1938 - )

    Stewart Brand; environmentalist, author; (1938 - )

    Tommy Chong; comedian, social critic; (1938 - )

    Peter Coyote; Digger, actor; (1941 - )

    David Crosby; musician; (1941 - ) 

    Robert Crumb; underground comix artist; (1943 - ) 

    Angela Davis; communist, activist; (1944 - )

    Rennie Davis; activist, community organizer; (1941 - )

    Bernadine Dorhn; activist (1942 - )

    Bob Dylan; musician; (1941 - )

    Daniel Ellsberg; whistleblower; (1931- )

    Bob Fass; radio host; (1933 - )

    Jane Fonda; actress, activist; (1937 - )

    Peter Fonda; actor, activist; (1940 - 2019)

    Todd Gitlin; activist; (1943 - )

    Wavy Gravy; hippie, activist; (1936 - )

    Alan Harber; activist, (DOB unknown - )

    Hugh Hefner; publisher; (1926 - 2017)

    Paul Krassner; author; (1932 - 2019)

    Charles Manson; conspirator turned to mass murderer; (1934 - 2017)

    Richard "Cheech" Marin; comedian, social critic; (1946 - )

    Michael McClure; poet; (1932 - )

    Barry Miles; author, impresario; (1943 - )

    Ralph Nader; consumer advocate, author; (1934 - )

    Graham Nash; musician, activist; (1942 - )

    Jack Nicholson; screenwriter, actor; (1937 - )

    Yoko Ono; musician, artist, activist; (1933 - )

    Mark Rudd; activist; (1947 - )

    Ed Sanders; musician, activist; (1939 - )

    John Searle; professor, free speech advocate; (1932 - )

    John Sinclair; poet, activist; (1941 - )

    Dick Smother; musician, TV performer, activist; (1939 - )

    Tom Smother; musician, TV performer, activist; (1937 - )

    Gary Snyder; poet, writer, environmentalist; (1930 - )

    Gloria Steinem; feminist, publisher; (1934 - )

    Neil Young; musician, activist; (1945 - )

     

    It wouldn't surprise me if they're all dead within 20 years tbh, but I suspect there will be a few hanging on in 2038...

     

    John Sinclair yet another faller: https://www.metrotimes.com/weed/rip-john-sinclair-dead-at-82-35899529

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    4 minutes ago, TQR said:

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    So, many thousands of people sleeping on the streets because they've got no money, how do we deal with this? Fine them, of course.

    Haven't they admitted their jails are full and are having to release folk early to get more people in?

     

    What's the point of jailing these folk? So they can let out a more serious offender? 

     

    Desperate.

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  9. Posted

    Trevor Griffiths, Manchester born playwright famous for his play Comedians and also for co-writing the screenplay for the Hollywood movie Reds (although he left the project with less than half of it done), reportedly dead: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/02/trevor-griffiths-mancunian-marxist-whose-political-plays-deserve-revival

     

    @Death Impends another addition to the List of the Missed, last picked in 2020: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_G.html#griftr

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    Just now, TQR said:

     

    Fucking, fucking annoying if true. He's not on my A Chris Goodbye team.

    It certainly appears true, on Midge's official FB and Twitter feeds.

     

    Looks like Squid's Stiffs had some inside info on him to pick him. (Not eligible for my TOTP team anyway).

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    On 08/10/2023 at 17:27, The Immortal said:

    Several Pearl Harbor survivors have died since my last update.

     

    Bob Batterson died August 11th.

     

    Joseph Eskenazi died September 9th.

     

    Joseph Richard died September 27th.

     

    With this in mind, these are the remaining survivors I know of.

     

    Louis Conter (102) - USS Arizona survivor.

    Ike Schab (103)

    Herbert Elfring (100)

    Horace Hamilton (99)

    Sterling Cale (101)

     

    Possibly alive?

    Freeman Johnson (103) - No confirmation since 2021.

     

    Right now 5 Pearl Harbor survivors I can confirm alive but let's wait for the Pearl Harbor anniversary to be sure, since that's when living survivors come up in the news.

    Lou Conter reportedly dead: https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/lou-conter-last-living-uss-arizona-survivor-after-pearl-harbor-attack-dies-at-102/

     

    Edit: DDP pick.

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    3 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:

     

    Good news for Labour then, more money can be raised post-election. Not sure how Hunt's sums are going to add up in this case.

    I say given the increase in Council Tax that England and Wales will experience, the increase in mortgage rates payable, the higher prices at the shops, etc etc experienced by the ordinary folk is causing real hurt. The increase in the minimum wage with nothing for business could mean businesses going down. No point in having a minimum wage if you aren't working because your boss has closed down.

     

    Meantime, instead of bringing the non-dom changes in immediately, the super rich like Sunak do need time to get their affairs in order to screw the Treasury out of more money. I don't see the Councils giving Joe and Josephine Bloggs 4 fucking years notice of the increase to your Council tax. (Says he from the position where the Council Tax in Scotland has been frozen this year - sorry guys!).

     

    So this is the UK's big lie. The Tories want you to have more money in your pocket. Untrue - they want to have more of your money in their pocket.

     

    Yep, they've given up trying to hold onto power.

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  21. Posted

    Sooooo.

     

    The Tories' conversion to abolish the non-dom status and thus steal Labour's clothes turns out to be yet another fraud on the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/31/tory-plans-to-abolish-non-dom-status-riddled-with-loopholes-labour-says

     

    Sunak once again will benefit hugely from the loopholes as will many of his super rich friends.

     

    Smacks of the so-called windfall tax on the energy producers which, as we all know, the Tories filled with loopholes so the major suppliers pay little to nothing in this windfall tax.

     

    I've said it before, I'll say it again. 

     

    Cunts.

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  23. Posted

    On 28/07/2020 at 11:08, maryportfuncity said:

    Hmm, had forgotten this thread was around - but recently read the 50th anniversary edition of Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture (insider account of UK counter-culture). It ends with a round up of figures and organizations and had clearly checked a lot of the key people to see if they were breathing when  the 50th anniversary edition came out (2018)

     

    So, I'll drop a few into this thread after I double check because their mates will likely do other lives style Guardian obits even if the various deaths go unremarked elsewhere

     

    For starters 

     

    Pat Arrowsmith - b 1930, biggie in CND and academic - definitely still alive

    Sonny Barger - b. 1938, MAJOR figure in the Hells Angels

    Martin Bax - dunno when he was born, doctor, novelist and arts journalist - still alive according to Wiki

    Joseph Berke - ground-breaking psychotherapist, American, Wiki has him  still alive

    Douglas Blazek - b 1941. Poet, still  breathing

    Pete Brown -  b. 1940, poet, performer, musician - deffo still alive

    Gunter Brus - b. 1938, Artist, film-maker, writer (you know the kind of guy)

    Phil Cohen - b.1943, one of those activist types who turned into a major academic

    Daniel Cohn-Bendit - b.1945, activist turned career politician

    Dave Cunliffe - b.1940, poet turned publisher, looks like he's still alive but no Wiki page

    Peter Currell-Brown - b.1936 - author of Smallcreep's Day, that should be enough to snag a small mention here or there as and when

    Ivor Davies - b.1935, artist - still active and Welsh enough that his native territory will likely mark his passing

    Philip Green - b.1941 and not the mulletted retail tycoon but a translator and writer, widely assumed dead but no proof either way

    Martin Bax reportedly dead aged 90: 

     

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  25. Posted

    On 19/08/2020 at 15:06, Ulitzer95 said:

    Hudson-Ford
    Wiki UK rock band (though styled as a duo), formed in 1973 and disbanded in 1977 but later resurfaced as The Monks in 1979, drummer Gerry Conway played with Cat Stevens and was also a member of Jethro Tull and then Fairport Convention
    Gerry Conway 11 Sep 1947 – Living
    John Ford 01 Jul 1948 – Living
    Richard Hudson 09 May 1948 – Living
    Mickey Keen 04 Dec 1943 – 08 Nov 2008 (64) Obit
    Ken Laws 30 Mar 1951 – c. 04 Mar 2007 (55) Obit
    Chris Parren 1947 – Living
    18/08/1973 Pick Up the Pieces #8
    16/02/1974 Burn Baby Burn #15
    29/06/1974 Floating in the Wind #35

     

    28 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Drummer Gerry Conway reportedly dead: https://www.fairportconvention.com/

     

    Did not appear on their charting singles @Ulitzer95. But I will cross-post.

    Cross-posting news of Gerry Conway's death, sometime drummer with Hudson Ford.

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