Bibliogryphon

Shall we start with Lady Jane Gray?

Congrats @Yvonne 1922 Juli Lynne Charlot/John B. Goodenough 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Ned Rorem 1924 Anne Vernon/Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Georgia Holt/Timothy Dudley-Smith 1927 Leontyne Price/Kenneth Anger 1928 Queen Ratna of Nepal/Jean Marie Le Pen  1929 Imelda Marcos/John Woodvine 1930 Edna O'Brien/Bill Treacher 1931 Leslie Caron/Ken Bates

Surely upon Charles Death she will just become the Dowager Duchess of Cornwall and remain in the background during the start of William's reign until she herself passes away

I do hope that all of you who have really obscure picks are prepared for the fact that in the month following the death of the Queen and eighty year old Latvian Folk Dancer (or whatever your really obscure pick is) will not be getting anything like a QO in the British Media

The republicans have missed the boat for probably the next five years barring violent public uprising and overthrow of the political order

Its Tipping Point....

By George.....

Going to post this now. It is going to make the DoE stuff look like a poorly performed dress rehearsal

Got her in the exact same spot. So it may be a case of all boats sink

His final role was the voice of Kehaar in the animated film version of Watership Down

Hugo Award Winners for Best Professional Artist by date of earliest win 1977 Rick Sternbach (b.1951) 1979 Vincent Di Fate (b.1945) 1980 Michael Whelan (b.1950) 1987 Jim Burns (b.1948) 1990 Don Maitz (b.1953) 1994 Bob Eggleton (b.1960) 2006 Donato Giancola (b.1967) 2008 Stephan Martiniere (b.1962) 2010 Shaun Tan (b.1973) 2012 John Picacio (b.1969) 2014 Julie Dillon (b.1982) 2016 Abigail Larson (b.1988) 2018 Sana Takeda (b.1977) 2019 Charles Vess (b.1951) 2021 Rovina Cai (b.1988) The reason there are big gaps is that Michael Whelan won it 13 times between 1980 and 2002. All post 1977 winners are surviving.

The knives were out for Cameron within the Conservative Party and even if he had won it would only have bought him a small amount of time. However it might have had an impact on who would have stood for leader. Andrea Leadsom's star would have not risen so high and so it could have ended up being Gove vs May but May would probably have only stood if there was a vacancy. Without the distraction of Brexit May might have been a more effective leader but UKIP would still be a problem at any election which may have drifted on to the 2020 date

To quote the Horrible Histories George IV song "As True King my reign began Though I was now older than your nan"

I was also tempted to post this

Kenny Logan is the latest addition to the Prostate cancer watch list (This could also go in the Strictly thread but I am not going to put it there)

This was a seat that was held by Labour in the Blair years so it is not unwinable especially considering the polls as they stand. If Nadine Dorres is heading to the other place then Mid Beds would also be up for grabs but that is a much safer seat and has been held by the Tories since 1929

I am going to try for the best case scenario Liz Truss (who has previously been a Lib Dem and a Remainer) is clearly adept at seeing which way the wind is blowing to allow her to charge to the front and say follow me. She has spent the past month trying to court a bunch of white, old, racist rich people by appealing to all their worst tendencies but now if she wants to stay in power beyond January 2025 she now needs to turn towards the wider electorate who are crying out for interventionist solutions. So she ditches all the really unpopular things and tries to build a centrist consensus have a massive programme of help for the cost of living crisis and make overtures to the EU to make Brexit work. The only problem she would then face is her own party. However, even if she looked like a kindly sort of person (she doesn't) this whole situation has the feel of the John Major years when the country was so fed up with a Conservative Government nothing was going to save them.

Major, Blair and Brown will probably go quite close together but not for a few years yet

Expected order surviving PMs will die John Major Tony Blair Gordon Brown Boris Johnson Theresa May David Cameron Liz Truss

She needs to get the package right. If it feels out of touch or untargeted she will not regain any of the places that the Tories have lost ground. They are currently in a pincer movement between the one nation tory voters who didn't really support Brexit who may switch to LDs and the red wall working class 2019 Tory voters who Brexit has not yet delivered for and who feel betrayed by the cost of living crisis and/or partygate However the media are still hysterically anti-labour but they may be some unofficial tactical voting that could damage them when the election comes. I am wary of the polls. Theresa May has a 22 point lead over Jeremy Corbyn in January 2017

Yesterday the Daily Dog Mess ran an article suggesting 05 October 2023 as Election day.

I think it will depend on a couple of things Firstly - who she puts in the cabinet and secondly if she hits the ground running with some policies that look like they will actually help people and aren't just window dressing or policies for the Tory right to get off to

Mickey Dolenz sues the FBI to reveal what information they held about The Monkees on their files

The news only broke this morning but the update for Gorbachev was done within 24 hours Be patient young Padawan

Douglas Hurd for a change