Understood, ironically.

I was by no means young in 2016, but VW and Prince's deaths were particularly shocking because they seemed so out of the blue.

Is the next one Smiley, Sounder or something else?

And Alan Rickman. And Terry Wogan (big part of my childhood, even if I wasn't a fan). And George Michael (I felt a bit guilty about not liking his music much, because he was such a Mensch).

I'd forgotten that Prince died the day after Victoria Wood. 2016 was brutal.

Particularly not Sir Olly.

Andrew!

Assigned bastard at birth (and therefore potential copper?)

No sherry in ours, because my mum didn't like it much, and indeed still doesn't.

Can't imagine trifle without jelly, or at least some fruity element.

Miracle worker is a completely different film!

I heard that in a Scots accent. Lynn Faulds-Wood?

There's no colour in the Apollo photos, but that might be because of reflected sunlight.

There's already a perfectly good literary adjective to describe that era.

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And Valerie Perrine.

In regular use at the New York Times in its coverage of the White House.

Maybe Jay Rayner will turn his hand to directing next.

She won every day of her week on House of Games. She's goy hidden depths.

I've thought for years that sales of fireworks to the general public should be banned. They're never much cop anyway, and the potential for harm is enormous.

The "disappointing" reboot which the Guardian rated with five stars?

No wonder your feet hurt.

That's a fair distance, if I remember where you live rightly.

In short, how contestants react to TM isn't predictable, which is one of the joys of the show. This season doesn't seem to have a complete chaos goblin, like others have.

Bad idea, even if it weren't Coldplay.

Jack Dee wasn't grumpy in his team tasks with Rosie Jones, and that's his whole schtick.

A good summary of arch-building and Trumpisn idiocy.

Do I say the really annoying thing?

The Starmer-shaped hole where a prime minister should be Mandelson scandal shows he has never successfully made the transition from an opposition mindset to a governing one

Ah, it’s actually up already:

Trump and Mandelson are both sleazy, obsessed with money and have links to Epstein. That's why PM was appointed.