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The living would be worse than the dead… Thankfully I don’t think any of my friends are interesting enough to want bright colours.

I'm not going to your funeral. It sounds too much like a good time.

I hate it when people do this. It’s up there with folk who insist that you wear bright colours at their funeral. I own no bright coloured garments!

It’s why the British monarchy is universally known (other than for formerly occupying much of the world) and these continental ones are non-entities. I’m sure we could lend them a crown as we have plenty…

Don't worry about it. What we don't know, folks like Lady Colin Campbell will make up.

You can't lock this thread. Surely it is part of our DL tradition for oddballs to claim inside information. I, for example, know his hospice nurse Sandie who told me that Democrats are going to euthanise him tomorrow so his death upends the Iowa Caucas...BECAUSE THAT WOULD REALLY FUCK THINGS UP FOR DONALD TRUMP.

He lied to her in order to get her to prorogue Parliament - a move which turned out to be illegal and put her in constitutional hot water. As Prime Minister he did more to disrespect her than any of his predecessors or successors. If he stayed for any length of time in their last meeting it’s because he overstayed his welcome, much the same as when he clung on as Prime Minister.

So they went to all that trouble to cover up her cancer just to let Gyles Brandreth put it out there in an authorised biography of the King?

Her private secretary said it was old age in what was effectively a closed document. It so happens this is what it said on her death certificate. As for the morphine, had that been the case the King wouldn’t have been away picking mushrooms.

Suggests that she didn’t have cancer. Or if she did, it wasn’t the cancer that killed her.

Posting photos in the hospital with loved ones on deathbeds is, in my view, too far.

Attention seeking in the extreme.

He’ll die at Christmas.

Rob Burrow has been ‘surprised’ with his CBE by the Prince of Wales. The fact they have presented the medal so quickly suggests it’s not just for the Facebook likes…

I don’t understand why politicians do this. He doesn’t want to be there and they don’t want him to be there…

Doesn’t matter if he is innocent or guilty now. He’s finished.

Seeing how CNN are reporting it you can understand why he tried to keep it quiet. Kinda backfired…

I missed it. Could someone post it again for me to see please?

Funny old world. I’d never heard of him.

Still not as bad as Brinsworth House back in the day. Or Richard O’Fucking Sullivan

Was he ill?

Buzz Aldrin. Space cadet.

You’re a special, eh?

What’s going to sell the most papers?

Calm down dear. I agree that the Republican primaries are a waste of time because the party has been hijacked by the hard right and weak white men who can’t cope with fair competition from women and blacks. As for the national polls, they are not as rosy as you are suggesting for Trump. Biden only won last time round because Trump is so unpalatable. The percentage Trump doesn’t get in the Republican primaries are not likely to vote for him which will always be his failure.