He can no longer possibly comment

I nicked this icon of snapesbabe awhileback, but it seems particularly apposite now, Urquhart is dead:

Actor Ian Richardson, best known for his role as scheming chief whip Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards, has died suddenly at the age of 72.

Via Rob at libdemvoice_fd. I loved that show when it was on, and I even bought the books (which, despite the authors politics, were rather good). I guess we'll get a repeat run now then? May be worth investigating plugging a TV in if there is.

In completely unrelated memeage, Rum and Monkey think I'm 63% similar to faeriecween, it looks, as usual for one of their things, to actually be a rather good little meme thing.

I'm an apparently intelligent, liberal, not-too-generous, not-too-selfish, relatively well adjusted human being!
See how compatible you are with me!
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Also? Empire Magazine has trailers for Hot Fuzz, the new Simon Pegg et al movie, which does look rather nice.