[neilslim]

Peter Green.

One of the all time greats, hopefully finally at peace.

[sherlock]

Peter Green.

One of the all time greats, hopefully finally at peace.

Amen to that.

[SA Chris]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53615718

Missed that Alan Parker had died. So many great films, I remember Angel Heart really freaking me out.

[jwi]

this record was on repeat all 2011 (or was it 2012?)

Justin Townes Earle, requiescat in pace

[mrjonathanr]

Sir Ken Robinson, proponent of more creativity in education https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/26/sir-ken-robinson-obituary

This is the talk that made him famous, it’s very engaging
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity#t-4543

[Oldmanmatt]

Diana Rigg.

Aka Emma Peel.

A remarkable character at the time, essentially being the “muscle” and kicking the crap out of nefarious foreign agents.

https://www.facebook.com/164665060214766/posts/4051914324823134/

[cheque]

Ronald Bell from Kool & the Gang.

[mrjonathanr]

 Alan Minter:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/10/alan-minter-british-boxing-great-who-became-world-champion-dies-aged-69

[nai]

Toots

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toots-hibbert-maytals-dead-1053716/

[Nails]

Sir Ken Robinson, proponent of more creativity in education https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/26/sir-ken-robinson-obituary

This is the talk that made him famous, it’s very engaging
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity#t-4543

Thanks for that link. I wasn't aware of him. Really interesting guy. Shame his ideas have largely been ignored (indeed openly sneered at by Gove et al).

[Duma]

Toots

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toots-hibbert-maytals-dead-1053716/

Gutted.

[JamieG]

Toots

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toots-hibbert-maytals-dead-1053716/

Gutted.

Yeah, this is really sad news. What a legend!

[Duma]

Just discovered he was going to be a secret guest at shambala this year (that I had tickets for) too. What a voice.

[shark]

Just discovered he was going to be a secret guest at shambala this year (that I had tickets for) too. What a voice.

Yes great voice and some classic numbers but probably best remembered that way - he was a cheesy performer

[cheque]

Bob Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex.

[andy popp]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[andy popp]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

It is almost impossible to overstate what a loss this is. Justice Ginsburg led a remarkable life of huge accomplishment and principle. But with her death at this moment profound and dark threats loom over the US. If Trump manages to install another justice the future will be a fearful one. Never underestimate just how radical is the agenda of supposedly Christian White supremacists. Roe vs Wade will be overturned and there will be no legal abortion. LGBQT rights will be expunged. Many equal rights protections will be swept away. And perhaps most important, because it will be the most lasting, voting rights protections will be gutted. White supremacist conservatives are a minority in the US; they cannot win without gerrymandering, voter suppression and the electoral college and yet through dominance of the Supreme Court they could entrench themselves in power for a generation or more.

[Teaboy]

It seems the only thing stopping Trump appointing a successor is if the GOP don't want to appear like hypocrites following 2016, so that's it, SCOTUS  is fucked for years to come?

[andy popp]

There are roadblocks in the GOP's way, even though they have a majority in the Senate. There may be GOP holdouts, at least three have indicated that so far. And I'm not yet clear on timing, e.g. for how long the current Senate continues to sit after the election. On average SCOTUS confirmations have taken 70 days. It will not be simple or straightforward for McConnell. But if Biden wins a real mandate, and the Senate, he can appoint new judges, expanding the size of the court. It's not written anywhere how many justices there may or have to be, nine is only a convention. Of course, at the moment it's impossible to calculate the electoral ramifications of this.

[cheque]

Kurt Albert.

[SA Chris]

eh? He died 10 years ago?

[cheque]

Yeah, ten years ago today it would seem. I didn’t know that, saw a tribute post and thought it had just happened. 

[SA Chris]

All good, just woke some deja vu in me. I did the same with Warren Miller recently.

[Yossarian]

Yeah, ten years ago today it would seem. I didn’t know that, saw a tribute post and thought it had just happened. 

Falling Down’s anecdote about beating Kurt Albert in an arm-wrestling contest remains unbeaten IMHO, unless anyone wants to raise it with an account of going fly-fishing with George Mallory, snogging Isabelle Patissier, or working at the greengrocer where Malc used to buy his broccoli...

[andy popp]

snogging Isabelle Patissier

I've done a route with her, an E1 down Dovedale of all things (as I know I've mentioned before). No snogging. I'm not sure how she resisted, but there you go.