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Death List – Giulio Andreotti

So after many lifetimes as Italian PM Giulio Andreotti finally snuffles off this mortal coil at 94 and becomes my 24th point on the Death List – nearly half way there! Who’s next?

Thatcher’s funeral

Neither Thatcher, her party nor her policies were voted in or generally supported in Scotland. Geographical distinctions in reactions to the news of her death are noteworthy. Some may argue that we’re one UK and that in a general election the will of the majority counts. Of course.

But if you remember back, the resentment [...]

Death List – Margaret Thatcher

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Rejoice at that news! Rejoice!

A nation mourns!

EDIT:

Part of the reaction….

 

 

Death List – Jack Klugman

So Quincy M.E. finally has a real death to investigate. Happy Christmas!

 

Death List Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar “the sixth Beatle” dies at 92 and provides my 21st death list point. He ws doubtless a great musician but the sound of the sitar is magical yet one I can only listen to in very small doses, so intense is it.

Death List – Patrick Moore

It may be unnecessary to say but I could see this one coming. Death is foreseeable and inevitable, it’s arrival however anticipated does not make it less sad when the deceased is as great a man as Patrick Moore.

Death List Dom Mintoff & Phyllis Diller

Death is much like the 14 and 21 buses in Edinburgh. You wait ages for either and then both arrive simultaneously. Dom Mintoff the former PM of Malta and Phyllis Diller the “cookie” American comedienne have been on my death list for years and suddenly “bang” they both pop off on the same day.

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Death List Sir Bernard Lovell

In what has been a good summer of death, I’m still saddened to see that Sir Bernard Lovell has died at the grand age of 98. Hopefully he will have seen the excellent news of the Curiosity rover landing on Mars before he went.

Before his death, Sir Bernard, physically very frail, lived in quiet [...]