John Deans @jjbillyd Twitter profile

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3 months

Election Bingo

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@DominicRaab @tomwhx @LBC @IainDale @mrjamesob As you've posted this, I guess you've taken a look back at it, Dom. So you'll have seen that you missed the point. James wasn't calling leave voters stupid, he was calling you a charlatan. Strange to bridle on others' behalf when the insult was aimed at you. So still a charlatan.

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@AvaSantina If you go and get a philosophy degree and what you come away with is no more sophisticated than "an appeal to authority is not a valid argument" then you really might as well have saved your money and sat at home and Done Your Research.

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@JimMFelton @trussliz She's a woman of principle. Say what you like about Sir Jim, he was always in good spirits when he met Liz at the Flying Pizza on Street Lane, Roundhay. You can't take that away, not from either of them. RIP.

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@Joey40171589 @FutbolBible Why not? If EUFA accept their sponsorship, that's one thing, but he's entitled not to allow young children watching to form the false belief that Coca Cola is part of a healthy, sporting lifestyle.

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@githii @PicturesFoIder how does police training work in the states, they just hand everyone a taser and a gun and tell them to go out and look after themselves?

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@KemiBadenoch Ah, Kemi, you've accidentally included a copy of your letter in the retweet, so that we can see what you wrote. You know, about the cat.

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@Declan_Murphy82 @AyoCaesar Here 'do' matches the plural "areas", and you need the copular 'be': "There *do* seem to *be* a lot..." Careful with participles: speak/spoke/*spoken*. You should repeat the locative pronoun: ...or *where* all the women... Anyway, good luck, you'll be speaking English in no time.

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Mogg: this isn't a catastrophe because it's not an earthquake and thousands haven't lost their lives. Krish: I think you're underestimating the impact on people who can't afford to stay in their homes Mogg: I'm trying to stay calm #C4News God, they're rattled.

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@metpoliceuk Absolute state of you. We deserve a police force we can trust, not one which forever asserts the mantra "without fear or favour" while doing everything it can to prove the opposite. We know you're corrupt, we know you're sexist and racist. And now you're an arm of state power.

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@jameschappers A bad oarsman blames his stools.

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@KilclooneyJohn If you're a Lord - and it appears that increasingly many of you are - you do not need to mention it every time!

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3 years

@slapdunk @townsendyesmate Also how they ship them on to Europe - the transatlantic maple cable runs with the Gulf Stream, and so except in the most extreme La Niña years (when the price of syrup rockets across the continent), they bob along the bottom of the ocean in a couple of weeks.

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@paulwaugh Yes, it does. It means you didn't make a mistake once, but that you have a general disregard for the law and for the safety of others. And that's why the fines for lockdown breaches were on a rising scale.

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3 years

Brexit quite literally a bait&switch.

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WE KNOW WHAT WE VOTED FOR!

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@JimMFelton What the hell is happening. I'm sure this reminds me of something...

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@JimMFelton @GuitarMoog He's miming a customs official in Rotterdam turning round a lorry of bleached chicken, I think.

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@BBCLauraKT @Cmacg3 It's all entirely principled: Rees-Mogg's as happy doing no work for this prime minister as he was for the last.

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@LozzaFox @JustinWelby As the bishop makes clear in his quote-tweet, for genuine Christians (and the religious of most stripes), the answer is always more love. It's the rightwing fanatics who borrow religion's clothes who insist it's a zero-sum game.

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@AmnestyUK_LGBTI Some tans people are stigmatised and suffering because of the prejudice that they are "really" men pretending to be women for some nefarious advantage. A woman whose culture required her to present as a man in order to wield power is, therefore, a terrible idea for a posterchild.

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The Tory cost of living crisis predates the sanctions, as Victoria Atkins knows. #c4news

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@hevcom @NimkoAli "I'll be there later than I said. Bear with me."

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Seeing @RobertBuckland on #bbcqt telling off an audience member for complaining about government corruption and appealing for 'balance' is quite something. They're morally bankrupt, and desperate now.

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@westfieldeditor @Femi_Sorry I love that apostrophe. I guess most of the eight minutes was spent trying to think of how to turn "treason" into "treasonous", and here, that was the answer. Genius.

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@mattgreencomedy

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I don't know, but for someone who opposes the licence fee, Peter Bone certainly seems to wring plenty of value out of #Newsnight .

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Johnson's allies are trotting out a line that his support has gone UP since the "last vote" on his leadership when he got 51%. That was a three-horse race (this was one-horse), he wasn't the incumbent, and his nearest rival got 24.6%, less than half his vote. Desperate stuff.

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@DouglasKMurray Trump was no friend of Britain, and nor's the Daily Mail.

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@ChrisMcK2018 @JamesMelville We're looking for them too. Italy has many more than us, and that's why they have very many more deaths so far than us. The US is a different story. Given the number of deaths they have, it's a crime against their people and the world that they aren't looking harder.

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@Elscajewel @AyoCaesar @DefenceDailyUK Yeah back when we were all flying to the Caribbean for Christmas

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At this stage the reason there's no chance of a Tory & Reform pact is that it's the Reform voters who couldn't stomach it.

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@benrileysmith Don't you love the smell of nae plan in the morning?

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@philwinkle @themodernage85 @alexhesz In the UK at least, "half price" suggests a discount; the "the" means it's comparing to the competitor. Spoken aloud, in this sentence "the" is close to a tap, and the rhythm still works (stress-timed)

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#bbcqt What a disgrace Claire Perry has proven to be.

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@GaryLineker I don't think @piersmorgan necessarily had to lose this debate, but boy did he just lose this debate.

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@JonMoseley @RogerHallamCS21 That awkward moment when you've confused something Greta didn't say with something the Mayans didn't say either.

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@CamAnalytica @Channel4News ...and you should provide a link to the film. Here: (It's quite long, because it includes plenty of context in the filming.)

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@thhamilton "You have to go and live in Spain, now, darling. Only till you're 18." "Why? I like it here! And I was beginning to get the impression there was a chance I was loved!" "We do love you, darling, we love you 100%. We can't love you 120%, now, can we?" "No mummy." "Goodbye darling."

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@Telegraph As a public service, a lot of papers and magazines are putting their stories about Coronavirus outside the paywall so that they are freely available. Perhaps at the Telegraph you could consider fencing yours off entirely?

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@nadinebh_ Graftwerk

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@Otto_English What terrible bad luck to be a suicide bomber on a bus where there's already another - never mind another 49.

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@olliecarroll @OzKaterji 20 years ago I met a woman about that age tending a little marker by a road in the Tatras mountains. I don't remember how we got talking but she described the Nazi atrocity, one of whose victims the marker was for, as if it was that morning. And here we are: it's happening today.

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@_RP_77 @Declan_Murphy82 @AyoCaesar Yes, I understood him. There's no snobbery involved: my timeline's full of mistakes, infelicities and dialect. But I'm not here spouting rubbish about how people should speak. He is.

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@TravellingMP @AdamJSchwarz @georgegalloway @TwitterSupport Ehm those are doctored. Here are the real ones, which clearly show George was never there.

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@mikegalsworthy "Had Tim Stanley been located on the Left Bank, Westies would be more post office."

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@Tonygardner But why did Johnson just strap himself to the mast of a sinking ship?

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@DanielJHannan A prime minster who refuses to be asked questions in parliament must face questions on the street and in staged events; and a PM who chooses to use the words 'fuck', 'spaff' and 'shit' to dismiss voters' legitimate concerns is, it seems to me, being treated very politely.

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@JamesCleverly @DanielJHannan @bendepear @realDonaldTrump @BorisJohnson @Conservatives "someone" ... "leaders"... Come on James, take it slowly now.. you can do it.

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Sir Charles Walker wheels out the passive voice in the PM's defence. "Poor Decision making"? These were the geniuses steering us out of the EU and through a pandemic. #C4News

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@Baddiel His biographer was on the World at One, and without a trace of irony said "he'll be very happy, he enjoys having children".

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What this government has done to this country is atrocious. Really, really, the human beings who it consists of shouldn't be trying to choose a leader, they should be holding up their hands, acknowledging that they were – and are – wrong, and stepping down. #bbcwato #wato

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@OwenJones84 Something as amazing as half a country voting for a man so obviously unfit for the office is a pathology beyond the opposition.

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@Peston "billions of additional pounds for schools and the police" which for some reason the government has hitherto chosen to withhold? May's magic money tree moves from miracle to miracle.

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@Sylando @AyoCaesar "Mr Brown next door always leaves for work at 8:17. But thismorning, he left at 8:24. Why?" "It's obvious, he needed a few extra minutes to do a murder." "Why would you assume he's done a murder?" "Well, why else would he have left seven minutes late?"

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@GuidoFawkes @OwenJones84 @jeremycorbyn So will a court.

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@Trevatha @emilynussbaum @TheWhackyPaki I broadly agree with you, but the comparison to the slave trainer in Handmaid's Tale sailed close to the edge of your case, I think; the joke worked because of political resonance attached to physical resemblance.

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@charliedanjones @DAaronovitch Before splashing out on new AAs, make sure it's not just that it also responds to the death of democracy.

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"There's nothing wrong with aspiration", say the Tories about private education. Aspiration for one's children shouldn't depend on ability to pay. To think otherwise is genuinely revolting from a governing party. This is why they're going to lose. #bbcaq

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@arusbridger The real marmalade dropper was her praise of his commitment to the 'fair distribution of life opportunities'.

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@JimMFelton @michaelgove Plus another 20+ years of hearing life was better in the blitz, from people who remember their parents remembered the war.

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@Otto_English @RKemb An unholy man dressed as a vicar, and a non-fighting man dressed as a soldier are both, by any reasonable definition, in drag.

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@TheFreds @AlexInAir Exempt you may be, but you are bragging about being congratulated for "speaking out on Covid and the lockdowns". Perhaps instead you might have been thanking those who can wear a mask and do, for keeping all of us and you safe?

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@DHORCHI100 @hassonjoey @Freedland It's funny that your bio suggests you're not scared by 'media scaremongering'.

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@JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject The claims seem individually ludicrous. But perhaps not as ludicrous as the government of a democracy saying it can't govern if subjected to normal scrutiny.

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@NormanSufrin @Steven_Swinford @JuliaHB1 Surely the fair interpretation is that he's noticed the executive have utterly screwed themselves and he's letting the house have a go?

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@HeadWarriorTWM @KemiBadenoch A true believer in what? That an incident in a school needs to be dealt with in that school, and that it certainly shouldn't – at some risk to both the teacher and the girls – be used as ammo in a hysterical culture war, especially by a senior politician? Yep.

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@SaulStaniforth Are you saying Diane Abbott shouldn't be impersonated by an impressionist who impersonates politicians (and entirely nails this impersonation)? Or that people shouldn't appreciate the impersonation? Both suggestions are preposterous.

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@mrdavemacleod On the news they said the Queen is stepping up to take on his duties while Charles is ill. Which just shows how much more devoted to duty the Queen is than Charles, given she's been dead two years.

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@LEK2129 @tomhfh Well don't vote for them next time, then.

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@supermathskid Wait, the reactionary rightwing are now shopping in Saudi Arabia for their cultural attitudes and legal code?

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@implausibleblog @Tantalus14 This clip is the first time 2016 has looked like the deep past

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Tonight's #grahamnortonshow is brilliantly odd - Paul Whitehouse and Graham Norton talking about Only Fools and Horses and Chas and Dave while three bewildered Americans look on...

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@TheMendozaWoman The accusation isn't one of antisemitism, it's of trivialising the sadistic murder of six million people in a throwaway political attack.

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@mehdirhasan @Yair_Rosenberg Yes - this is not something taken out of context, it's a journalist giving him the opportunity to either confirm or - as he does, to some extent - walk back his earlier, accurately reported, remarks.

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@phillowthian @Otto_English @krishgm Almost certainly, but to be fair to her it might be like a soviet soldier given 50cl of vodka before he's pushed in front of the panzers.

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@drdina1 @MarinaPurkiss @jovanforclacton Here in the UK, we use the word "weird" all the time, we didn't come up with it a fortnight ago.

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@AyoCaesar A shepherd herself...

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@sturdyAlex - It was less than nine minutes - If nobody "gets the cake out", is it really even porn? - Keir Starmer flicked through a lingerie catalogue once in Hull

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@3YearLetterman What's a millimeter coach? Doesn't sound very American.

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@afneil Did anyone in the organisation tell anyone in Labour or the other parties that he was booked?

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@HowellsHowells9 @ragipsoylu @EliotHiggins Ah yes. Why are the civilians of occupied areas wearing the item the occupiers have told them will keep them safe? It's quite the head-scratcher.

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@mrdavemacleod I mean, of course I'm cynical about the marriage. But I don't want to be critical about him enjoying himself at the beach. After all, I hope that I can too, when like him I'm 178.

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@AyoCaesar Given you've got three or four days I'd start with the English Peak district. You can do all those prepositions (plus go in things - caves), there's hostels, there's great transport, and you can pay homage to the Kinder trespass.

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@Femi_Sorry More like 14 flatmates; the other four were just sitting on the couch, not bothering to vote, just assuming they'd probably stay in.

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@BenQuinn75 Why why why do they keep echoing the Kremlin's line on "woke"? It's unreal.

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@Otto_English Did he attempt to ride the carousel? 😡

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I just don't understand why Thérèse Coffey's lighthearted comments on ITV's Preston are more prominent on #r4today this morning than Hancock lying about the corrupt government spending he's been caught covering up, or number 10's implausible denials of wrongdoing last Christmas.

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@JimMFelton They've got this guy in England... *ING* land... young boy, actually, very young... got some incredible ideas, really, .. incredible ideas. Marvellous. George's Marvellous Medicine, they're calling it. That's what people are calling it. George's Marvellous Medicine. Incredible.

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@daraobriain @guardian "Sure, he died, but it was me doing all the emotional labour." Though now I've written that down, it does look rather true.

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@JohnGillibrand @joeheenan They're changing the grades at Buckingham Palace Christopher Robin went down, and Alice Alice's first choice place got barred "I worked for those A-levels ever so hard" Says Alice. "Weren't you predicted two As and a B? "Sure was, dear, but it's B, C and D" Says Alice.

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@RobertLindsay @cabseesandsays There isn't "a man behind" the Oxford vaccine. There's a team of men and women, originating around the world (though Sarah Gilbert, who happens to be a British woman, is key). Soirot is the CEO of Astra Zeneca. .

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@devlatfair @TobyS_J But rents will go up, and in the long term your mortgage won't. You're currently paying £100 a month net to hold an asset appreciating much faster than that, and soon enough you'll be being paid to hold it.

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@CatharineHoey All it says in the article is that he's signalled support for the RFU's review, which as its patron is indeed hardly a surprise. But since that review's not going to ban the song, the Daily Mail's headline is spurious. What a surprise.

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@DanielJHannan I've seen a couple of clips shared widely today. In each clip, both Prime Minister Johnson and his interlocutor are polite; the only differences between them seems to be in passion, directness, and weight of argument. Are you talking about different clips?

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@RogerMac272 @SophyRidgeSky Why would a hole in the roof only make the bedroom wet when it rains? Why would faulty brakes only matter when you try to slow down? Who can answer these imponderables...

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@GarySpedding @ClarkeMicah This is nonsense. The holocaust isn't defined by the political leanings of the perpetrators, but by the crime itself. Genocidal crimes against Jews happened in communist countries too (whether you consider Soviet deportations, or pogroms like that in Kielce).

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@AllyFogg And isn't the only single one solitary thing Sir IBS repeatedly bragged about for UC that it would always make increased pay for the low paid worthwhile?

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The #r4today headlines on #Barbados make room for a recording of Prince Charles and a message from the Queen, but not the voice of any Barbadian, including its... well, its president. Remarkable editorial decision.

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