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    General Election 2024?

    When Gideon Osborne was chancellor, I thought he had the kind of face you'd never get tired of drowning in a toilet bowl, but even I thought he had better judgement in 'leadership material' than that.
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    General Election 2024?

    Glossop feels like a colony of Manchester in Derbyshire so it makes sense in their case, but Buxton feels like a different world completely so seeing the red placards there was quite something. Doing a count in my own town, I counted ten Labour signs and one Reform UK. In Matlock it's a mix of Labour and Lib Dems. No Tory signs in sight anywhere.
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    General Election 2024?

    Been noticing a sea of red placards in peoples gardens even in solidly Tory areas like Matlock and Buxton. Only the Labour candidate has even bothered sending me any campaign literature so far.
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    9. Noam Chomsky

    Looks like he's pulling a Tom Petty here, so I'd give him two-three days at best.
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    Boris Johnson

    He looks like a man who's just come out of a long afternoon with all fifty of his kids using him as a climbing frame all at once.
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    Doctor Who

    The one gigantic flaw of this season is that it suffers from how short it is. Every episode has been good as a standalone, but the overarching arc is too rushed and doesn't leave enough time to build up the tension and the mystery (RTD achieved this very well in his first run by dropping in hints throughout the series which became more and more numerous towards the finale episode). As entertaining as this episode was, it felt like it came too soon. There should have been a good 3-4 episodes in between 'Rogue' and 'The Legend of Ruby Sunday'.
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    General Election 2024?

    Reform UK just showed a political broadcast which was nothing but five minutes of a blank screen with the words 'Britain is broken. Britain needs reform'. To their credit (and this is literally the only credit they deserve in this election, other than their 'useful idiots' role of bleeding away the Tory vote even further), if you don't interpret the word 'reform' to mean 'Reform UK', it's probably the one ad in this whole election period which doesn't contain a single fib or (soon to be) broken promise.
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    Who Do You Think Will Win The 2024 UK Election?

    Wouldn't 'who will be the opposition following the election' be a more interesting question?
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    Elon Musk

    He also wants to ban his employees at Tesla from owning iPhones because Apple made a deal with the company that developed ChatGPT to bring it to the Siri voice assistant. For 'security' reasons obviously. It's certainly not because he was one of the founders of that company back in 2015 but left in 2018 and it began its meteoric rise soon after he left. Say what you want about AI and the doom it represents for mankind, but there's such a thing as being right for the wrong reasons.
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    Françoise Hardy

    I still see no BBC news announcement. They're not normally this late to the punch with figures of her cultural standing.
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    That Portillo Moment

    Because they have no real differentiating policies other than their stance on trans rights and being a sulking ground for Alex Salmond.
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    Michael Mosley

    I'd think if I was going to start mountain climbing, I would let someone know where I was going and taken extra care not to leave behind my phone in case of trouble. Either way, hugely tragic loss.
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    King Charles III

    Well, I went to a food fair today and made it my mission to only use cash (since it was in a rural location where the signal is too bad for card payment). Ended up with a lot of change and raked through it all for my first Charlie penny. No luck. In fact, I don't have one coin which was minted later than 2017. Royal Mint must have also been slacking off since then.
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    Michael Mosley

    My parents (both almost his age) quite often leave their phones at home by accident. I don't think that's any indication of his mental state or intentions. People of his age group and older generally don't feel the need to be permanently connected and online all the time, especially on holiday when he'll be after a little downtime. The boring explanation is probably the correct one here, sadly. He went on a walk and met a horrible accident, and even if he was still alive and trapped somewhere, a 67 year old man shouldn't be out in the open for this long in the middle of a deadly heatwave.
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    General Election 2024?

    Or she could defend him to death and he rewards her for her 'loyalty' by pulling strings and having her plonked in a safer seat elsewhere. Extremely risky either way.
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    General Election 2024?

    Adding to this, he's probably now succeeded in thoroughly pissing off the last people left in this country who would have voted for him. I really don't know if he really is this stupid or if he's actively sabotaging his campaign at this point. Maybe it's both... somehow.
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    Michael Mosley

    You may be thinking of Max Mosley, Oswald's son and former Formula One head. No relation.
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    Michael Mosley

    I'm not a viewer of his fad diet type programmes but he's done some good documentaries on BBC Four (I'm aware I'm probably one of the youngest people who still watches that channel though). Surprised that so few people here seem to have heard of him given how many other obscure names show up on here that everyone just seems to know.
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    Assassinations

    You only have to go back in Murdoch's thread though to see that his health record isn't exactly a blank sheet. He has suffered major injuries in an accident on his private boat, a severe case of COVID that put him on a ventilator, life threatening pneumonia and another fall resulting in a broken back which put him in a wheelchair for several months, all in his late eighties/early nineties.
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    Michael Mosley

    Oh crap, I hope he's found safe. I loved his Pain, Pus & Poison documentaries.
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    Assassinations

    Murdoch's been proving there is no god with his continued refusal to croak for the best part of decades by now.
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    Political Frailty

    Looks like if anyone was banking on Fico's assassination attempt leading to some kind of moral changing of the guard, those hopes are now sadly dashed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c899yq888jeo
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    King Charles III

    Still yet to come across a single Charlie coin despite having quite a lot of pocket change hanging around. Any chance people can stop hoarding these now and put them back into circulation already? The novelty has to wear off at some point.
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    General Election 2024?

    Unfortunately those are the people Starmer will need to appease in order to get what he wants. The rest of us have pretty much made up our minds by now.
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