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Soon. Or soonish. A few days, maybe a week. By the end of the month certainly hopefully.

See also Michael Ondaatje, who has a more realistic chance of pegging it this year.

A guilty plea attracts a more lenient sentence, but besides that, you have no idea what legal advice has been given to the defendant affecting his/her plea (speaking generally, not about any specific case), so you can't paint with such a broad brush. Justice shouldn't have a "one size fits all" solution.

We've obviously come a long way since the middle ages.

Have I accidentally strayed onto the MailOnline website?

Is talmagejohnson two euphemisms for the price of one?

Worth seeing, as we're talking Bruce Dern films, is Freaks. The title almost put me off watching it, only giving it a go because Bruce Dern is in it. It was on one of the streamers in UK last year, and still might be. I'd recommend watching it cold, without reading reviews or synopses, and just discovering what its all about as the story unfolds.

Life imitating art, sort of. Anti (Antilly), the dog that played Brandy in AfterLife (the Ricky Gervais things on Netflix). Also appeared with George Clooney and Tom Cruise.

Finished off Slow Horses S4 last night (never did make it in one binge, thanks to falling asleep halfway through episode 2). Excellent. To think, had I watched S1 in isolation (i.e not taking in opinions from this forum) I'd have not bothered with subsequent seasons. Jonathan Pryce is excellent in this, but my favourite character is still Taverner, played by Kristin Scott Thomas.

Isn't this where we came in?

That's the guy, but needs to to be uk.news.yahoo to count. (Might get a Daily Mail shout, you never know).

DDP pick Pete Medhurst has died; what are the chances of a QO?

Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Taylor has died aged 75. It was he who lead the investigation into the murder of Julie dart and the kidnapping of Stephanie Slater, leading to the arrest and conviction of Michael Sams. He died 28 December 2024. Julie Dart, dead Stephanie Slater, dead, Bob Taylor, dead Michael Sams, still alive. Funny old world.

Tom Baker is 91 today

A cursory check suggests that last year we had 16 hits by the end of the 19th, and 31 hits for the month of January.