The RIP thread...

RIP Sue, I loved your books as a nipper

Sue was ace.

RIP sue, was also a big fan of her books as a young un. Classics.

sad news for The Who fans.

She was an excellent satirist, and captured the thought processes of 13 year old boys perfectly.

A sad loss.

Ernesto Laclau

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There is no politics without the creation of political frontiers, but creating such frontiers is more difficult when one cannot rely on stable entities (such as the ‘classes’ of Marxist discourse) . There is no future for the Left if it is unable to create an expansive universal discourse constructed out of, not against, the proliferation of particularisms of the last few decades. A dimension of universality is already operating in the discourses which organise particular demands and an issue-oriented politics, but it is an implicit and undeveloped universality incapable of proposing itself as a set of symbols able to stir the imagination of vast sectors of the population. The task ahead is to expand those seeds of universality so that we can have a full social imaginary capable of competing with the neoliberal consensus which has been the hegemonic horizon of world politics for the last thirty years.

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TLDjustD

A shame. I always found the work of him and his wife committed and inspirational.

RIP the 96 football fans who went to a match 25 years ago today and never came home. It could have been any one of us.

Justice for the 96.

The truth would be nice.

'Together again'?!?!?! Fuckin' hell.

I've seen that done meaningfully just once. The first edition of Private Eye out after Dudley Moore's death had a simple cartoon with two gravestones. The first read "Not only..." and the second "But also".

Wally Olins, branding guru

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/april/wally-olins

Ow, that's bad news...

Gabriel García Márquez, one of the finest writers of the 20th century.

^ Indeed. Some of the best books ever written. RIP.

Fake letter apparently

Gabriel García Márquez, one of the finest writers of the 20th century.

Just seen the news. Amazing imagination. Beautifully written books.

What a writer, thanks so much Gabriel.

Oh no! That's sad. Some of my favourite books - I could totally immerse myself in 100 YoS, and Love in a Time of Cholera year upon year.

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter

BOB Dylan - Rubin Hurricane Carter - YouTube

Andy Holden, legendary British middle distance runner from the 70s and 80s.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10572152/Andy-Holden-obituary.html

"At his peak, he achieved an ambition to run 100 miles and drink 100 pints in a single week".

Mark Shand
Some Royalish person
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10783907/Duchess-of-Cornwall-utterly-devastated-by-death-of-brother-Mark-Shand.html

Duchess of Cornwall 'utterly devastated' by death of brother Mark Shand
Family of Mark Shand, 62, left devastated after renowned conservationist dies from head injuries suffered in a fall on a New York street, he wasn't wearing a helmet

tragic for the family i'm sure.

Edna Dore, actor, remember the old lady in Eastenders and she was brilliant in Mike Leigh's Mean Time:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/apr/14/edna-dore

Epic stoner, used her greenhouse.

she relished telling the story of how the police, in order to stake out a drugs gang in an adjacent house, had borrowed her greenhouse, which was full of healthy marijuana plants.

^that's a coincidence. The episode of Tenko in which she died was repeated today.
One of those actresses that turned up everywhere.

RIP.