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One for the old gits - Stuart Damon out of The Champions has died. I didn't realise his co-star Alexandra Bastedo died 7 years ago - she was one of my first crushes along with Julie Newmar out of Batman.

Power spike in hell as he burns...

They were offered an exemption for music touring by the EU but turned it down.

I know it's easy to say, but despite the obvious lies about staying in the SM/CU it was obviously the main driving force of the leave movement and voters was to end freedom of movement so not realising stuff like music touring was definitely going to be fucked needed an enhanced degree of blindness/stupidity.

It's the opportunity to mutate into something that evades the vaccines to a greater degree that the increase in cases worries me the most.

I was just saying at the weekend that being seen as an outstanding performer in music turns people blind to certain things - like how Michael Jackson hasn't been Glittered out of existence. I know he wasn't convicted but neither was Savile. See also Clapton's racism and Bowie's flirtation with fascism - the latter being excused as being a fashion thing rather than ideological.

His boss has a toddler's petty grudge about being sacked by Michael Howard for lying about the same thing so he's safe.

It's dodgy as fuck how the sun got the cctv footage as well.

I still don't understand how there's no mechanism for even investigating the PPE contract allocation stuff. A fucking pub landlord is handed 30m for a business he's just started and has no knowledge of and we're just supposed to say we'll that's good entrepreneurship without wondering where the money went and how. It fucking stinks but hang on, he's given a 15k job to someone he's knobbing - that'll do it.

Another superstar fucking cheat.

I'm generally in favour of PR - I'm just saying that an assumption that there's naturally an anti-tory alliance is a bit presumptive. I get that in principle a power broking party have to negotiate in good faith - I just don't think on the last few occasions the lib dems have shown good faith - their insistence on replacing Brown and stating they wouldn't work with Mliband or Corbyn being particularly offensive to me in the absence of any similar conditions on the other side. Perhaps if we did find a route to PR then more parties would emerge - a tories with a conscience type lib dem, a left-ish lib dem, a new Labour and a mainstream socialist party might satisfy most people from a voting pov but I'm not sure any major changes could occur once all the deals are done

An anti-tory alliance sounds good until you remember the lib dems were perfectly willing to enter into a coalition with them and before anyone mentions that was under Clegg, they've only been too happy to do the same in councils all across the country.

I don't want Benitez to go to Everton because I hate the cunts and don't want them to succeed. Also in a forlorn hope that the takeover might happen, I'd hate to see us do what Man City did and waste a year giving a shit incumbent manager a "fair chance".

If 96% of new cases are the delta that would suggest the alpha is down to a couple of hundred and the original virus is effectively extinct - I think that has to be something to cling on to hope wise. Of course mutations might get even nastier which is why I'd press ahead with vaccinating kids instead of throwing them under the herd immunity bus.

"You have to give him a bit of credit for the finish". No you have to say that was fucking brilliant.

I read the thread in hindsight and didn't think anything of his post - seemed like him surviving made Quiff a cunt rather than if it was the other outcome and it was in the Yes, Gemmill thread.

People who begin emails in the current climate with "Hope you're well".

Tuesday's usually the highest of the week as ones that weren't counted at the weekend are included.

A little while before this I was talking to my GP while I was there with something else about being sick of having a lot of colds which was getting me down. After asking me where I worked his advice was to take early retirement if it was possible - anything to stop having to commute as the trains were/are just mobile petri dishes in his view. I don't think we considered a global pandemic as a way of avoiding that commute though it has worked on the cold thing.

I don't think we should open fully until all adults are fully vaccinated. I also think the way they're ignoring other countries and not considering vaccinating kids and instead deliberately throwing them under the bus of "natural" infection is a mistake as they and the unvaccinated adults are just petri dishes for mutations which could fuck everybody.

It's not about what they say at the press conferences, it's that they do it in front of the sponsors' logos. /cynic

Ancelotti leaving Everton - I'm sure the pundits will be recommending Bruce to take them to the next level.

The concern is that that variant has a degree of vaccine escape - it's only really suppressed after two doses which fewer people have.

Nice to see the catholic Church allow a twice divorced adulterer use their top UK church with no qualms.

I heard a quote the other day "The thing about marrying a mistress is that it creates a job vacancy". James Goldsmith apparently.