Deathrace

Nicola Bryant still looks amazing for someone well into their 60s.

Lord David Owen retired from the House of Lords today.

RIP Sven. I didn't know his father who is 95 is still alive. Quite unusual for a 76 year old to have surviving parents.

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Freckleton Air Disaster which killed 61 people including 38 children. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_air_disaster Two of the three children in the infant classroom who survived the crash are still alive (their other classmates all died) - Ruby Whittle and David Madden - and now 85. The third, George Carey, died in 2015. Good that all three survivors have had longish lives. https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/i-clearly-recall-being-told-about-it-and-being-taken-to-the-grave-freckleton-air-disaster-80-years-on-4748122

My best guess of the year of death is: Carter 2024 Biden 2030 Clinton 2032 Trump 2034 Bush 2040 Obama 2045

A very large line up of footballers especially those who played for Norwich and Ipswich since the 1980s (some from the 1970s) along with the occasional dart player and jockey who must be in reasonable shape to be attending this. One assumes they can be excluded from any dementia-afflicted footballers lists at the very least.

Sue Holderness has tweeted this photo of her and David Jason which appears to be from this weekend based on her comment.

In many ways the case of Truss is more fascinating than any of them. How did someone so obviously deficient and ill-equipped to be Prime Minister come to hold the highest office in the land? It's a question that deserves serious analysis to prevent future Liz Trusses becoming Prime Minister in the future.

I know a number of people close to her and I have no doubt that she genuinely considers that she did an excellent job as PM and if only she'd had an opportunity to continue she'd have been more popular than Churchill. The delusion is very strong here.

Yes, the current Liz probably considers Theresa May, David Cameron and John Major to be socialists and the entire City of London to be "woke Marxists".

Confirms that she's both bipolar and an alcoholic in a new Netflix documentary https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/faye-dunaway-documentary-interview-uk-b2590163.html

RIP. She was brilliant in my favourite Inspector Morse episode "Second Time Around" which also featured Kenneth Colley (born 1937), Ann Bell (born 1938) and Oliver Ford Davies (born 1939) who are all still going well into their mid 80s. Unusually by Morse standards, the cast of that episode has had decent longevity as Jenny Laird and Helena Mccarthy both lived to be 89.

When did Simon Cowell die?

That's young for a tennis player of his era!

He said that he had prostate cancer around 15 years ago, they caught it early and he has recovered. He sounded and looked fine to me.