drol 10,062 Posted February 13 Italian minister of defence Guido Crosetto hospitalised with pericarditis. Not in any danger it seems. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 1,861 Posted February 13 On 29/08/2023 at 16:46, Szabaka said: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/29/steve-scalise-blood-cancer-diagnosed-house-republicans/70707798007/ Steve Scalise: treatable blood cancer Scalise in remission 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Comped 368 Posted February 13 16 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said: Scalise in remission Good for him, although God only knows what his treatment cost taxpayers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,022 Posted February 15 Mike Smithson, founder of PoliticalBetting.com and for two decades the #1 voice in Britain when it comes to betting on politics, diagnosed with dementia. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 10,062 Posted February 15 On 13/02/2024 at 08:21, drol said: Italian minister of defence Guido Crosetto hospitalised with pericarditis. Not in any danger it seems. Crosetto discharged. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,124 Posted February 16 On 10/08/2022 at 19:50, drol said: Former president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo in coma after stroke, though apparently stable and improving, of course. On 07/03/2023 at 08:45, arghton said: After nearly seven months, Fernando Lugo discharged. Fernando Lugo hospitalised with serious health issue but already out of ICU. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,124 Posted February 17 On 06/02/2024 at 11:52, drol said: Taib Mahmud unwell, and going the Alain Delon route of elder abuse. Alleged image of Abdul Taib taken a few days ago: One of the greatest kleptocrats of our time. It'll be interesting to see what'll happen to his billions. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polar duck 481 Posted February 18 On 21/09/2022 at 11:56, Ulitzer95 said: Would be interested to see a list of the oldest U.S. ambassadors. Oldest ones I'm aware of (with wiki pages): Spoiler Joan M. Clark (wiki) b. Mar 1922 – Malta Geri M. Joseph (wiki) b. Jun 1923 – The Netherlands Dave Bolen (wiki) b. Dec 1923 – East Germany, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana (also an Olympic track and field athlete) Samuel Rhea Gammon III (wiki) b. Jan 1924 – Mauritius J. William Middendorf (wiki) b. Sep 1924 – The Netherlands, Organization of U.S. States, European Union (also U.S. Secretary to the Navy) Frank J. Shakespeare (wiki) b. Apr 1925 – Portugal, The Holy See Theodore R. Britton Jr. (wiki) b. Oct 1925 – Grenada, Barbados Donald M. Blinken (wiki) b. Nov 1925 – Hungary Horace Dawson (wiki) b. Jan 1926 – Botswana Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. (wiki) b. Jan 1927 – El Salvador Bruce Gelb (wiki) b. Feb 1927 – Belgium Frederick Vreeland (wiki) b. Jun 1927 – Morocco Glen Holden Sr. (wiki) b. Jul 1927 – Jamaica John R. Davis Jr. (wiki) b. Jul 1927 – Poland, Romania Francis Terry McNamara (wiki) b. Nov 1927 – Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde Malcolm R. Barnebey (wiki) b. Nov 1927 – Belize Donald P. Gregg (wiki) b. Dec 1927 – South Korea James T. Laney (wiki) b. Dec 1927 – South Korea Paul C. Lambert (wiki) b. Mar 1928 – Ecuador Herman W. Nickel (wiki) b. Oct 1928 – South Africa Nicholas A. Veliotes (wiki) b. Oct 1928 – Jordan, Egypt Cynthia Shepard Perry (wiki) b. Nov 1928 – Sierra Leone, Burundi Robert Sherwood Dillon (wiki) b. Jan 1929 – Lebanon William C. Harrop (wiki) b. Feb 1929 – Guinea-Conakry, Kenya, Seychelles, Congo-Kinshasa, Israel Edward Peck (wiki) b. Mar 1929 – Mauritania Raymond L. Garthoff (wiki) b. Mar 1929 – Bulgaria Jane Abell Coon (wiki) b. May 1929 – Bangladesh William Luers (wiki) b. May 1929 – Venezuela, Czechoslovakia Alfred H. Moses (wiki) b. Jul 1929 – Romania Richard W. Murphy (wiki) b. Jul 1929 – Mauritania, Syria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn (wiki) b. Sep 1929 – Switzerland and Liechtenstein Jack F. Matlock Jr. (wiki) b. Oct 1929 – Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia James Goodby (wiki) b. Dec 1929 – Finland Richard Llewellyn Williams (wiki) b. Dec 1929 – Mongolia Although he doesn't have a wiki page, Allen C. Davis (b. Aug 1927) is also alive. He served as ambassador to Guinea and later to Uganda. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,124 Posted February 19 On 23/01/2022 at 17:26, arghton said: The Most Honourable Dame Marguerite Pindling (26 June 1932-) Hospitalised with acute pancreatitis in 2007, hospitalised in 2012. Marguerite Pindling rumored "very ill and unwell" but family spokesman says she is in perfect health because nobody dies in 2024 etc. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,100 Posted February 19 Maureen Hicks, former Tory MP for Wolverhampton North East from 1987 to 1992 elected with a teensy weensy majority, reportedly dead on 13th February: https://www.politicshome.com/members/profile/association-of-former-members-of-parliament/remembrance-of-departed-colleagues 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,100 Posted February 19 On 25/05/2021 at 01:02, Ulitzer95 said: Been told that Harry Greenway (wiki), 86, former Conservative MP for Ealing North (1979–1997) is in the final stages of dementia. Diagnosed about a decade ago. Easy scoring for the DDP... if he even makes it to next year. On 25/05/2021 at 10:52, YoungWillz said: Don't know much about him, bribery scandal disappeared. All I know is he is a deeply Christian person who believed in beating children at school by the reintroduction of corporal punishment and seems to have had a fetish for hospital matrons. Harry Greenway reportedly dead: 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,100 Posted February 19 5 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Harry Greenway reportedly dead: Greenway seems to have died in January according to this source: https://www.abrs-info.org/article/harry-greenway/ DDP pick. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Comped 368 Posted February 20 NZ Green MP Efeso Collins dead at the age of 49 after collapsing at a local fun run in Auckland, per New Zealand Herald. He is the first MP in NZ to die in office in 11 years, and apparently only made his maiden speech last week. Likely a heart issue as EMTs used defibrillators but could not revive him, but that remains unconfirmed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 1,618 Posted February 20 On 17/02/2024 at 13:06, arghton said: Alleged image of Abdul Taib taken a few days ago: One of the greatest kleptocrats of our time. It'll be interesting to see what'll happen to his billions. Abdul Taib Mahmud dead at 87. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sinbabad 826 Posted February 21 Anfinn Kallsberg, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1998-2004) has died aged 76. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,833 Posted February 21 Affonso Celso Pastore was born in São Paulo and died at the age of 84,he was an economist . Between 1983 and 1985, presided over the Central Bank of Brazil, during the government of former military president João Figueiredo, the last president of the Brazilian military dictatorship. https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2024/02/21/morre-economista-affonso-celso-pastore.ghtml Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,100 Posted February 21 Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer has got a real slapping down at the public inquiry into special forces murders in Afghanistan: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/johnny-mercer-warned-serious-legal-9116102 Isn't the complexion of his constituency against him anyway? About to be an ex-MP? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,086 Posted February 21 On 19/02/2024 at 15:54, YoungWillz said: Maureen Hicks, former Tory MP for Wolverhampton North East from 1987 to 1992 elected with a teensy weensy majority, reportedly dead on 13th February: https://www.politicshome.com/members/profile/association-of-former-members-of-parliament/remembrance-of-departed-colleagues Telegraph obit for Maureen Hicks. Telegraph obit for Sir Colin Shepherd. Above obit helpfully gives us a date of death for Shepherd. -------------------------------------------------------------- 5 MPs died over 4 days in January: Sir Tony Lloyd and Sir Colin Shepherd on 17th, Harry Greenway on 18th, Sir Graham Bright on 19th and Lord John Tomlinson on 20th. That's surely a record in such a short space of time? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kenny 281 Posted February 21 3 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer has got a real slapping down at the public inquiry into special forces murders in Afghanistan: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/johnny-mercer-warned-serious-legal-9116102 Isn't the complexion of his constituency against him anyway? About to be an ex-MP? The Tories are losing by-elections with huge majorities so the obvious answer is yes, Even so, Mercer is a useless, attention-seeking wanker so he would lose his seat even in a close GE. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,181 Posted February 21 Swedish MEP Erik Bergkvist has died at the age of 58 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 11,086 Posted February 21 5 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Swedish MEP Erik Bergkvist has died at the age of 58 years. I’ll excuse whoever runs that Twitter account because English may not be their first language, but aren’t you a native English speaker? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nantonian2013 44 Posted February 22 6 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer has got a real slapping down at the public inquiry into special forces murders in Afghanistan: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/johnny-mercer-warned-serious-legal-9116102 Isn't the complexion of his constituency against him anyway? About to be an ex-MP? Possibly, but I wouldn't be completely certain that Labour pick it up. It's a very White Working Class seat with a strong military background. It's difficult to say with Mercer as he's quite divisive, but possible he gets a better than average incumbency bonus. I can see a scenario where Labour get a majority of say 40/50 and this seat just about holds on for the Tories, whereas less marginal targets may perish. It all depends on where you think Labour's swing is going to come from, is it likely to be greater or lesser in amongst demographic groups which have been trending away from them since at least 2010? Might well be big enough swing to make the distinction a moot one in Mercer's case but it is dangerous to call an election this far out (2017 anyone?). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 2,548 Posted February 22 On 02/04/2023 at 12:47, arghton said: Former Catalonia Govt President Jordi Pujol (predecessor of longtime dementia sufferer Pasqual Maragall) suffered a stroke in September at a book presentation and underwent brain surgery, but apparently he has "perfectly recovered". He's now the second-oldest President of a Spanish Autonomous Community, Jeroni Albertí Picornell of Balearic Islands is a bit older at 95. Yep and now Jeroni Alberti (Wiki) dead at 96 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,181 Posted February 23 Ronnie Campbell has died aged 80. Wiki 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted February 23 19 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Ronnie Campbell has died aged 80. Wiki Iirc retired due to struggling with severe cancer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
