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John Pilger - investigative journalist and documentary maker
JohnPilger.com - the films and journalism of John Pilger

 

Kids Company charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh dies aged 61



https://www.theguardian.com/society...ty-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61

 

RIP Glynis Johns.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67888244

 

Is there a record for the most ill bloke ever??

 

I see he was in the news again yesterday. Conjures up an image I can’t get out my head…

 

Niklaus Wirth - one of the fathers of modern programming languages - dies aged 89
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01...kly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article

 

RIP David Soul

I bet loads of us watched Starsky and Hutch

 

I'm sure that was the b side of don't give up on us baby

 

It was indeed, so the mrs tells me, she preferred it to the A side

 

I also liked him in Salems Lot.

 

Also Magnum Force
Sad loss

 

So no-one mentions Tommy Smothers? (26th)

I expect Goldie Keef'll be next.

 

Nobody seems to remember that Soul was jailed in the 1980s for attacking his 7 month pregnant wife.

Not the sort of bloke I want to admire or Mourn.

 

RIP Mario Zagallo; 4 time World Cup winner with Brazil as a player & a coach, and lost a 5th final.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67900776