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On paper yeah, but it's a triple curve ball situation, there'll be a Reform candidate, the local independent is making it clear he favours standard Tory policies but he's a local guy who gives a shit about his constituents (something she has a reputation for not doing), and there's the tactical voting that appears to be happening and being targeted on particular individuals (Hunt, for one is vulnerable to this), so Truss could find it being squeaky bum time, even if she has a job after the election

Oh aye, and... Eyebags noticeably bigger and his face/neck have got thinner of late. Tbh, take away the power suit/make up and hair and he looks old and tired. Not sure he's sleeping anywhere near enough.

Chris Mason's digest of the main threads in Truss's new book linked below - Sunday Times discussed the advances (financial) on this, which were fairly low (less than £2000 in the UK), and also the 71-year-old independent standing against her at the next election (point being the guy's basically a Conservative and very big on actually representing local issues in parliament). Truss could hang on and keep peddling her personal brand of Conservatism, or it could all go to even more shit in the next few months. Interesting times, eh? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68823526

More than Truss backing him now - this album is out at the end of the week!

Or stay awake in public and actually concentrate on something for hours on end. He has a habit of using things he seems to worry about as ways of abusing others, like saying someone has very small hands (which Trump does in relation to the bulk of the rest of him). He calls Biden "sleepy Joe," we'll see.

So, was fighting up to last year - may well be impossible to verify but continuing to take hard blows to the head into his 40s might well have something to do with that seizure

Not sure Rosemary Haughton has seen herself described as "hot" very often in the course of a writing career that's seen her lauded as a major talent where theology is concerned. That's major talent as in q/o chances, especially in the more permissive pools, are good. But things are different hereabouts, we're deadpoolers and she (on the left as we look) turns 97 today

Yeah, photo from Big Brother house and a one-line entry in which they point out he's litigious and state that in their opinion he's still a crap MP.

Bought this cheapie from my local Oxfam and greatly enjoyed it - not exactly a long read.It's a digest of represenative crapness produced in the wake of the expenses scandal. Big take away for me being that the authors clearly thought the expenses a low in political standards, they hadn't a fucking clue how low Boris Johnson's reign would drag the whole business. Useful hereabouts as a reminder that some of the expenses mob remain alive and their wrongdoings back then will guarantee q/o coverage in the broadsheets as and when. So, a reminder Anthony Steen - b.1939 Conservative, claimed £87,000 in expenses to upkeep his mansion and bawled out critics as simply jealous because he had a big house Sir Derek Conway - b.1939 Conservative, half the fucking family on the payroll, worst example being paying one son a substantial salary as a aide despite the fact the young 'un was otherwise engaged studying Geography in Newcastle at the time Margaret Moran - b.1955 Labour, multiple expense and ongoing shitstorm including sterling efforts to keep the lingering shite off her Wiki page Andrew Mackay and Julie Kirkbride - b.1949 and 1960 Conservatives, married MPs who milked the potential of flipping their main residences so's they could cash in mightily.

Sure we've had this chat before but this guy was measured and weighed regularly at 6ft 3ins and around 215 lbs

Ronda Rousey is out there promoting her new book and she's fairly frank about the fact her brutal and rapid victories were partly down to her own awareness that she'd had so many concussions in her judo career she wanted to avoid lengthy bouts in MMA. From a dead pooling point of view she's likely not the only one and that first generation of highly prominent (i.e., q/o shoo-in) female fighters, many of whom owe Rousey a debt because her fame dragged the sport to a higher profile could well be figuring regularly hereabouts within a decade. Grim stuff. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/31/ronda-rousey-i-never-wanted-to-talk-about-concussion-it-felt-like-a-weakness

Nice one, I'm thinking that leaves him more time to use his phone - no wonder they want to get youngsters off the internet.

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone last night played a track by National Health and mentioned the death of Jimmy Hastings, brother of Pye Hastings and man about prog, jazz and a few other places - like playing on Radiohead's Amnesiac album. Sax, Flute and that kind of thing. In good form here - he's the flute on Love Song with Flute: