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I suppose if you thought you were dying a couple of nights ago and now it doesn’t seem so likely, you would be in “good spirits” as these things go.

A full recovery may take time. I've had TB, and even when I was clearly over the worst it was about six months before I felt completely better. I was on antibiotics for a year.

I don’t think anyone will feel very sorry for Dominic Cummings.

I remember reading years ago that Australian soap actors were keen on having their characters spend a few episodes in a hospital bed, comatose at death’s door. Apparently there was nothing like it for boosting your popularity. In the same spirit, if Boris gets back to his old self he’ll be a national hero.

I wouldn't have blamed John Nott if he'd called Robin Day a smug git.

They could add a P.S.: "I didn't."

If Boris survives and is well enough to resume his post, he'll be the most popular man in Britain.

I still think he'll probably recover, but will he be able to keep on as PM?

I've thought since about Friday that he was more ill than they were saying. (Do you notice they're always suffering from "mild symptoms" when the news first breaks? It got a bit fishy at around the eighth time.) More likely than not he'll survive, though.

He’s no longer Withers.

78 and fifteen years with a heart transplant. Not bad. Re old time comics, Little and Large, the Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise etc. were just trying to get a laugh, which makes them infinitely preferable to all the latter-day comedians whose raison d’etre is to show us how clever they are.

He was singer and guitarist with Arrows, who had a hit in their own right with "Touch Too Much." (And their own TV show!) He was also the last surviving member of the original group.

William could choose to be known by one of his other names. (Some years back it was suggested that Charles might reign as George VII.) How about King Arthur II?

No such luck.

Diana’s death was the first big news story I ever saw breaking on the internet, it was sometime after 1am on Saturday night and I was in a chatroom and someone posted that she was in a car crash in Paris. I put the TV on and they were covering it, but saying that she had a broken arm and was otherwise not much hurt. That was still the story when I went to bed.

Suppose the present situation is much the same by the start of May, what’s going to happen to the VE Day anniversary? Will anyone who actually remembers VE Day be ordered to stay at home? Not to mention the possibility that Dame Vera and the Royal Consort won’t last till then.

He seems harder to kill off than Rasputin.

Another example of his work...

He was plainly on the way out for some time. At least the coronavirus didn’t get him.

Funny to think the Beatles got kicked, punched and relieved of a large sum of money for failing to be at her beck and call. Fifty plus years later she’s still there.

There’s a remoteness about Baby Peggy’s stardom which the Dames can’t match, not for a long time to come. Silent movies were antiquated before most of us were born. Almost all of her films are long lost, and hardly anyone alive has ever seen any of them. And the whole idea of a four-year-old girl as a movie star in 2020....

The BBC have got his death on the website front page.

Today's headline: 93-Year-Old Retires From Job. I remember watching some of the early Eastenders and thinking that Dot was rather a sinister character when she began.

The Cars are one of those bands who sell a lot of records, and whose hits will go on being played forever, but nobody ever takes much notice of them.