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Oh, and I've just remembered that I sat opposite her in a restaurant once and she really is mesmerising in real life. I always imagined she would be quite sort of tomboy-ish, but she actually had a noticeably delicate and soft air about her. She was also very precise and particular about the way she cut and ate her food - as if she'd been to finishing school and had learned the most exquisite manners!

This is also ace:

It's a shame that her second album, Homebrew, was overlooked as I think in it's own way, it's easily as good as Raw Like Sushi. This strings-heavy track is a real highlight for me:

Well, you can look forward to a whole lot more certainty if we leave the EU. Many years of it, in fact.

Hmmm...I certainly didn't see that happening.

And that's the bit the gun lobby refuse to accept, so resort to empty slogans which willfully skirt the issue and are effectively meaningless.

She knew exactly what she was saying and it made her look like a complete imbecile.

Exactly. The gun lobby is just as bad as the tobacco industry by defending their products at all costs with no regard for how they negatively impact on society. They both seek to frame the issue as one of personal rights, when all they care about is $$$$; in reality, they couldn't a fuck your 'freedom'. 'Cigarettes don't kill people. People kill people!!!!' Yeah, right.

Eyewitnesses said the gun looked antique or homemade, but more recent reports have stated it was a modified .22 rifle with sawn-off barrel.

Yes, I know. Doesn't make it any less idiotic.

In the US, 'mental illness' is used by the gun lobby as an argument to maintain the status quo. It's invariably followed by the old chestnut 'Guns don't kill people. People kill people', which merely flags up their own moronity, rather than contributing anything meaningful to the debate. Here in the UK, where we have far less of a gun problem, the Right will attempt to push the mental health aspect in regards to Jo Cox's murder, in order to deflect attention away from their own lethal ideology. So it's always worth considering the agenda of those that grasp onto the 'mental health' trope. And furthermore, we don't want to stigmatise the many millions of people who suffer from mental health issues who would never go on to kill anyone.

''Thomas Mair has given his name as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain” as he appeared in court charged with the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.'' https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/18/thomas-mair-charged-with-of-mp-jo-cox So, by his own admission, he's a terrorist.

So have they created a hologram out of a Whitney 'look-a-like' lipsynching to Houston's vocals?

Here's the War Song video: