[Boiler]

Ah, nothing like a bit of Clash...

Just need the Ford Cortina and a Jacko to fill it up.

[kreuzberger]

Joe Strummer. 19 years dead today, as it happens.

[Boiler]

Joe Strummer. 19 years dead today, as it happens.

Tempus fugit an'all that.

[Bones McCoy]

Joe Strummer. 19 years dead today, as it happens.

Can't believe it's so long.

[Abernathy]

Can't believe it's so long.

As Maisie McGlumpher said to me only last night.

[davidjay]

As has been said several times already, how despicable do you have to be to think of this on Christmas Day?

[Youngian]

Joe Strummer. 19 years dead today, as it happens.

Can't believe it's so long.

Looked fit and up for it when I saw him with the Mescaleros the summer before his death. He was on the bill with the Pogues with a returning Shane McGowen. I’d never put money on Shane being the one alive two decades later.

[davidjay]

Joe Strummer. 19 years dead today, as it happens.

Can't believe it's so long.

Looked fit and up for it when I saw him with the Mescaleros the summer before his death. He was on the bill with the Pogues with a returning Shane McGowen. I’d never put money on Shane being the one alive two decades later.

See also the chances of Spike Milligan being the Last Goon Standing.

[Bones McCoy]

Can't believe it's so long.

Looked fit and up for it when I saw him with the Mescaleros the summer before his death. He was on the bill with the Pogues with a returning Shane McGowen. I’d never put money on Shane being the one alive two decades later.

See also the chances of Spike Milligan being the Last Goon Standing.

Or indeed Keef: still odds on to be last stone rolling.

[davidjay]

Very often it's the fittest ones who collapse and die suddenly because they've never bothered to get checked out while us hypochondriacs who rush to the doctor at the first sign of a problem get them picked up early.

[kreuzberger]

Strummer was done for by an undiagnosed heart condition. Same for a cousin of mine in the last year, a lovely big, daftie who loved his carp fishing and football. He simply fell of his perch.

I was messaging with my aunt and uncle yesterday. They are still shell-shocked.

[Samanfur]

Same thing happened to my Dad.

Fit as a butcher's dog, as far as anyone knew. Walked about ten miles per day with the dogs, spent his weekends either in his garden or bombing around the local lake on his dinghy, and spent his evenings as captain of the local seniors' table tennis team.

Went down the road to a match one night, finished his game, sat down, closed his eyes and toppled off his chair.

He'd never had heart trouble before that we knew of, but his aorta gave out, due to an undiagnosed blockage. It could've happened in the middle of the resus room at A&E, and it probably wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference.

[davidjay]

That's what I meant but said wrongly. People who are fit and never have a day's illness can have a congenital condition that goes undetected which someone who is a regular at their GP will get picked up during a routine examination.

[Cyclist]

Is this what Sunak was discussing the other week?

Ministers have been urged to retain a facility that can swiftly create and test new vaccines, amid concerns over the sale of a leading centre originally designed to prepare Britain for future pandemics.

Some senior medical figures have privately raised concerns that government officials are examining bids for the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC), near Oxford, which has benefited from millions in public funding during its development...

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/202 ... scientists

The price of everything...

[Nigredo]

Strummer was done for by an undiagnosed heart condition. Same for a cousin of mine in the last year, a lovely big, daftie who loved his carp fishing and football. He simply fell of his perch.

I was messaging with my aunt and uncle yesterday. They are still shell-shocked.

Suspect a similar thing happened to my paternal grandmother. My dad and uncle went out to watch football and in the meantime their mum had a heart attack out of nowhere and perished.

The first of 4 grand parents to pass from heart failure, makes me rather worried about when I'll meet a certain fate but the doctors haven't found anything to worry about yet.

[Samanfur]

Given that my grandmother on the same side was finished off by her seventh heart attack within three years of Dad's age, I'm a bit nervous, myself.

[Cyclist]

Now they're quietly dumping their green policies.

The government has quietly backtracked on proposals to require every shop, office or factory in England to install at least one electric car charger if they have a large car park, prompting criticism by environmental campaigners.

The original plan required every new and existing non-residential building with parking for 20 cars or more to install a charger. However, the Department for Transport (DfT) has now revealed it will only require chargers be installed in new or refurbished commercial premises amid fears over the cost for businesses, according to a response to a consultation.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment ... olled-back

[Malcolm Armsteen]

'fears over the costs for businesses'.

Trumps environmental concerns every time.

[davidjay]

[Cyclist]

Business as usual. Just making sure their mates are alright.

Labour lambasts reported £330k award of public money to repair peer’s road

Lisa Nandy questions whether ‘filling in potholes for a Conservative peer’ is what PM means by levelling-up


Labour has demanded ministers explain why £330,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on repairing a pothole-ridden road reportedly owned by a former Tory peer.

Lisa Nandy, the shadow levelling-up secretary, called on the government to say “how this happened and what steps are being taken to ensure it does not happen again”.

It came after the Daily Mail reported the money had been spent on improving the road on land owned by the eighth Viscount Gage. He inherited his title in 1993 and was removed from the House of Lords, alongside the majority of his fellow hereditary peers, in 1999.

The lane leads to Charleston, an artists’ house and studio museum in the South Downs in East Sussex...


https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... peers-road