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Well I knew as much, but thanks for confirming.

19/4/24 71 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 37 La Roux — In For The Kill 36 Adele — Chasing Pavements 34 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind +4 34 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings -3 33 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 30 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody -3 30 Taylor Swift — Love Story 22 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me 20 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold 19 The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved

Course not. She's got a blue rosette, that's a pre-requisite.

@Ulitzer95 why are you private messaging all these key details?! Making me look like a mug. If he hadn't mentioned your name, of course, he could have called you an 'unnamed source'.

So you think the King's surgeon is the only one who knows his prognosis? You don't think members of the household or, just maybe, his son might know? You don't think walls have ears and things are overheard? Loads of places the source could have come from. And it's still just a rumour.

And Ulitzer didn't write him off. He reported what he'd heard. Doesn't mean people don't beat bad diagnoses, but just changes the odds.

I agree and accept there could be more going on. It certainly fits with what happened with QEII. But, while they never confirmed she had cancer, it was clear she was slowing down and discussions started to get more morbid, although we maybe didn't believe it enough. Almost missing the Jubilee was a massive red flag in hindsight. I don't doubt the validity or veracity of your source, you have a great track record, but if he is worse than is being reported, I hope they don't keep secret until he's on his deathbed, that would be a terrible shock, especially if it's a year rather than 2. And I still hope you're wrong.

And after waiting all that time. What a gut punch - literally. And poor William's got to deal with the potential loss of his father and the sudden and unexpectedly early arrival of his Kingship, all while his wife fights her own cancer battle. Hope you're wrong.

Unless he's so far gone that such treatment is pointless and it's all about making him comfortable for as long as possible? Seems very unlikely to me, I'd be inclined to agree with you, just playing devil's advocate, and after The Late Queen, who can say for sure?

I agree, no way to talk about the Cabinet is it?

It was the only one left I couldn't remember, so listened the other night and then I did. And I'm now frustrated I didn't vote a couple of hours ago and put it out of its misery because it's not one of the 4 best here IMHO, so I'd have got rid of it. Also, voting on it based on the original rather than the remix is slightly disingenuous as that's not what got to #1. Anyway, my votes! 18/4/24 71 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 37 La Roux — In For The Kill 37 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 35 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind +2 34 Adele — Chasing Pavements 33 Rihanna — Russian Roulette +2 33 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 30 Taylor Swift — Love Story 26 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold 19 The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved 16 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me 03 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers — Day ’n’ Nite -6

Sorry, realise I'm posting lots in a row but looks like I missed an interesting day of discussion! Catching up. Wonder if Portillo being seen as the 'heir apparent' in 1997 is the reason the 'Portillo moment' was so shocking? Not only had the Tories been hammered but the leader-in-waiting had lost a seat with a 15,000 vote majority. Clarke would have been such an improvement, but I don't think anybody was going to unseat Labour in 2001, they were still wildly popular. It all started to change in September that year, with 9/11 and Blair's obsession with backing up the US in the War on Terror. Agree Penny is the best of the bunch in my eyes, but when her opposition consists of Suella, Kemi, Priti and Grant, what's that saying?

This also chimes with the rumours of a Lab-Lib coalition in 1997 with Ashdown as Foreign Secretary. Surprisingly, all went quiet on that front with a majority of 179! As for the current cabinet, there's no one. All the decent ones were sacked or want nothing to do with the government and, in either case, are sat on the backbenches.

But not as low as Truss, right?

Davy Crockett? Nah, she's not that interesting.

It is 3 years since the last round of this game started and nearly a year since it finished but with another season about to commence and sacking taking place at an astonishing rate these days, surely the next round shouldn't last as long! The last game took long enough to finish that I ended up coming out on top, and with no Miracle Aligner around, and the support of Buffalo Phil and Great Uncle Bulgaria, I am happy to step into the breach of running what should be a relatively stress-free game (for everyone apart from those whose jobs are at stake!) After all, I've lurked around here long enough without actually running anything, about time I did something useful! This seems to have crept up on us, such that the 2023-24 EFL season starts next Friday (July 4th), so time's ticking to get this up and running! Entries are valid until midday BST on Friday August 4th 2023 via DM or you can post on the thread - but your picks are liable to be stolen! That gives you just over a week! Rules are pretty straightforward: Submit a team of 20 names. (Plus subs, but with only a week to go until the game starts, one or two subs max should be all that's needed). The first person to have all 20 names they chose leave their club (this can be due to resignation, termination, mutual termination, changing club or any other form of sacking) wins. It's as simple as that. Valid Leagues are any 2023-24 members of: English Premier League English Championship English League One English League Two English National League English National League North English National League South Scottish Premiership Scottish Championship Scottish League One Scottish League Two Welsh Premier League Welsh Cymru Alliance League Northern Irish Football League Premiership Northern Irish Football League Championship (I'll be reliant on your notifying me if your picks have gone in some of the more obscure leagues, mind you!) The last round saw 5 entrants, but it would be great if we could get a few more of you involved - I know there are plenty of football fans on here and the fruit is ripe for the picking (14 sackings across 11 Premier League clubs during last season, more since the season ended, and only 32 of the 92 league managers have been in charge longer than last summer!) so feel free to get involved. The more the merrier, it's just a bit of fun and gives us something to talk about between deaths. Good luck!

17/4/24 67 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 37 La Roux — In For The Kill 35 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind 34 Adele — Chasing Pavements 33 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold 33 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 33 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 32 Rihanna — Russian Roulette +4 28 Taylor Swift — Love Story 23 Michael Jackson — Man In The Mirror 21 The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved 12 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers — Day ’n’ Nite 09 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me 07 The Saturdays — Just Can’t Get Enough -6 06 Leona Lewis — Happy

Outside. Not in the pubs, clubs, common areas. Revolutionary.

We'll see what happens and I don't deny it may be hard to enforce, but from a personal standpoint, I couldn't care less. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life and was part of the first generation of uni students where smoking was banned in public places. It's becoming a thing of the past, and this will, presumably, further that objective. Vapes are the bigger issue now and God knows where that goes. Is it hypocritical? Probably. But I'm not fussed. Plus Liz Truss is speaking up in opposition of this, so I know I'm on the right side of it.

16/4/24 63 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 36 Adele — Chasing Pavements 36 Michael Jackson — Man In The Mirror 31 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers — Day ’n’ Nite 31 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 30 La Roux — In For The Kill 29 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody 29 Sam Sparro — Black & Gold 28 Taylor Swift — Love Story 28 Rihanna — Russian Roulette 27 The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved 27 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind +4 21 Leona Lewis — Happy 20 The Saturdays — Just Can’t Get Enough 09 T.I. ft. Rihanna — Live Your Life 05 Britney Spears — Piece Of Me 05 The Saturdays — Forever Is Over -6 3 The Noisettes — Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go)

I still need to have a listen to some of these, but am I the only one who thinks Better in Time is a better Leona song than Happy? I'll need to listen to them both, Happy's vaguer in my head.

Number 10 Eid Celebrations Plan 1. Announce annual Eid Celebration reception at Downing Street. 2. Hear that several people and groups are planning to boycott reception due to response to Gaza. 3. Get Lord Cameron to insist people should go and engage with the government. 4. Talk about how much you're looking forward to hosting the reception and discussing the issues. 5. Wimp out of attending your own half-attended Eid reception claiming "business in parliament" made it impossible, making mugs of those prepared to meet you halfway. Rishi Sunak everybody! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68818484

Posting this as it popped up on Facebook. If I'm right, that's this Saturday's Times under his arm, so would back up the "very recent pic" description. Still walking to the shop, not sure he's changed much since the last pics? He sure likes that red waistcoat!

Donald Trump supporter (woman) on the 6 O'Clock news saying if he's put in jail, millions of people will grab their guns and we'll have a civil war. Genuinely got to the stage where I said out loud "go right ahead love, we'll kill every fucking one of you". Sick to the back teeth of his bullshit and how people will work against their own self interests to enable him. It's a total messiah complex and it's not just dangerous it's insane. (Oh, and no, I'm not American, so I can't take part in a civil war, but would it really remain civil in that situation?)

It'll never happen in a million years. Unless open war was declared on the UK before January (which I cannot see happening) then there has to be a general election. And even if we were at war, it would require an Act of Parliament to suspend the election for another year (which would need renewing every 12 months) and there is no way, unless in the direst of circumstances, that Parliament would agree to that. It needs 26 Tory MPs to vote with the opposition to defeat the government, and there's way more than that standing down in the next 6 months who would kibosh a delay, not to mention those rare creatures "Tories with a moral compass" who would see it as the shameless power grab it would be. It's not going to happen. Sooner or later, Sunak the Squatter will have to face the music and give us a say on his party's decade-and-a-half in power.