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I believe he's in better shape now than he was just a few years ago.

If the party has confidence in the leader they don't hold a vote of no confidence. And if the leader wins, doubts and divisions don't go away. The odds have tipped against Boris lasting till the next election.

Anita's paean to public transport:

Steve Howe's all right then.

Bit of a shock about Alan White, because yesterday I saw the news that he won't be playing on Yes' forthcoming tour - which might seem paradoxical, but it didn't sound as if he was that ill. He'd been having back problems for a long time, so for some years they'd had a second drummer who did increasingly more of the playing.

I don't know, but I can imagine the headlines if it was confirmed: "IT'S MANTHEA!"

I was once told that at a party, Grant Bovey's ex-wife had loudly announced that Anthea Turner was a hermaphrodite.

It will feel odd to say "The King" instead of "The Queen." And he'll be on the stamps and money.

Here it is, "Eve" from 1968. I remember watching it on Granada, late on a Monday night...

The magpie looks as if it's vomiting out the show's title. Great theme tune though.

Neal Adams was definitely a major figure in American comics, for his influence on other artists as much as for his own work. Also there really aren't many artists from comics' Silver Age of the 1960s left now.

The original Tangerine Dream line-up as of their first album, Electronic Meditation, are all gone now - Froese, Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler.

Apparently Berlin School electronic artist Klaus Schulze has died. An early member of Tangerine Dream, he went on to a long solo career.

He doesn't look bad for 53 or 54, as he was then.

According to Kenneth Anger* you might have to wait till he's finished with "the fist-fuck set." *A good pick for future DPs, btw. He's about 94 and looks as if the forces of occult darkness turned up to collect.