Sod's Law

Even riskier in Texas, I imagine.

Richard Dawkins still going on a worldwide tour but he's 83 and had a stroke a few years ago. Out of the big four, there will only be Sam Harris left soon and he's the youngest by some margin.

And in Texas that must be as risky as calling yourself a 'gay Muslim nonbinary tree-hugging undocumented immigrant abortionist'.

I made my assumption based on my limited experience of two people I've known who needed chemo (one for breast cancer and the other throat cancer) and they both lost their hair but I know cancer encompasses a huge range of diseases and everyone's experience with the disease and the treatment is different. I'm guessing breast cancer is unlikely to be the type the King's being treated for though...

Wouldn't chemo be almost a given if it has spread? Unlikely he would be walking around with any hair still on his head (or walking around much at all in public) if it had metastasised to any huge degree.

Tennant would also be a Guardian man, or maybe the New European. He's become pretty politically active in recent years.

I kind of assumed from the initial rumours that Millie was being demoted to a kind of 'secondary companion' status for Season 2, similar to Martha Jones' role in Series 4 (god, this numbering scheme is a mess) and that her main story arc would be pretty much wrapped up in her first season. BTW: I'll also assume from now on we're using 'series' for pre-Ncuti New Who seasons and 'season' for post-Ncuti/Disney+ seasons.

Their kids probably had pretty ordinary careers ahead of them which are now all in tatters thanks to their creepy uncle's hijinks.

If this exact joke is not on the next Have I Got News For You, I'll write to the BBC myself and demand someone gets fired.

There are conspiracy theorists out there who think Elvis is still alive. I doubt Harold Wilson attracts the same kind of mystique.

Sorry. I'm logging in during my lunch break and I'm kind of in a hurry.

Of course, this does all hinge on Sunak's ability to think like a rational human being for five minutes, in a PM notorious for hiding under the desk when another whiff breaks out in his party and leaving every decision he makes until the very last moment before it becomes politically untenable to maintain his silence. Nonetheless, I'm pretty happy in my 26th September prediction.

It's a really sad state of affairs that only Jimmy's death will ever bring about world peace and unity on this thread at this point.

Why do they keep repeatedly pointing out their nationalities in this statement anyway? Is that even relevant? It reads like it was written by an angry Dane suffering from nationalistic hypertension at the thought of one of 'their' records being broken.

He's probably worried about all the recent scandals affecting MPs with double-entendre names and thinks he'll be next.

When does he announce his running mate? Will he have another play of the 'family values' card with another Evangelical Christian like Pence or maybe someone from a minority background to play the 'I'm not a racist, really' card?

As satisfying as his loss would be, Rees-Mogg lost whatever relevance he had with the downfall of Boris Johnson. He's nowhere near the leadership hopeful these days that Portillo was in '97.

A 'smoking' in German also means a dinner jacket (i.e. a jacket you smoke in). It's funny how these things work. The weirdest part is when French borrows words back from English that were given to it by French in the first place. 'Tennis' is seen by French language purists as one of those bastard Anglicisations ruining the purity of the language, even though it originally comes from the French 'tenez' (to hold).

This is another reason why I went with September. A later election means we start slipping into the months where people are spending more on energy/Christmas shopping and starting to feel poorer, and we're in a different place as a country now compared with the winter election in 2019. A September election would ride off the back of summer (and then there's the 'messing with the students returning to uni' aspect which I wouldn't put it past the Tories to pull off).

There's a weird lack of news or any kind of publicity around this new East Midlands Mayor position. Turnout for these elections around here is going to struggle to get above the teens because most people either won't be aware or will have forgotten there are elections in this region. The only other position up for grabs where I live is PCC... which even hardcore political nerds don't care about. It's a pretty woeful choice of candidates all round. Looking at the list, none of the other candidates seem to have any previous connections in the area (the Labour candidate was previously MP for a southern constituency) which makes you think they've just been parachuted in from party HQ and might have little understanding of the issues here. And there's no way on God's green earth I'd vote for Bradley. We already have too many nutter MPs in this area and we're not having a nutter mayor too.

Looks epic, but I was hoping for maybe at least a cameo from Mrs Flood in that trailer. If it wasn't for those rights issues with the BBC I'd be seventy to eighty percent sure that she was the Rani.

I'm not surprised the polls aren't improving. There's a difference between the news telling them the economy is improving and people feeling it in their pockets.

Can I go with 26th September seeing as nobody seems to have picked that yet? There's nothing to say he can't call an election during a parliamentary recess in order to dodge facing the wrath of stroppy backbenchers after a possible rise in boat crossings and the Covid enquiry findings in the summer, and it gives some time to call off conference season.

It feels like one of those situations where he will rally around and seem to get over his recent health worries and then drop dead when everyone leasts expects it. My grandad was in chronic bad health related to his heart problems for the last three years of his life but after his last heart surgery a few months before he died he really seemed like the fittest and healthiest he'd been in years. The end was really sudden when it came and I can see Francis going through something similar.

Charles Darwin would like a word, although at least his note had a nice bird on it.