Rob Budden

Owner of boutique B&B Mèze Maison near Montpellier. Former FT journalist freelancing on personal finance and media. I rate everything I eat out of 10.

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@DianeLBW @PickardJE Yes... but that does not explain the key words "two and a half times any other G7 economy "

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@simon_reeve @RDEhospitals Wishing you a quick recovery 👍

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@Mallaw7Page @JamesRees_PCC Fair enough if wages go up. But then so will prices. Fine if you're happy with higher food prices, then higher inflation and then higher interest rates and therefore more expensive mortgages. There will be losers from this

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@ptr_yeung @john_lichfield This is what happens when you leave your social media monitoring to underpaid people without local cultural references

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@john_lichfield That's encouraging. Let's hope with increased supplies and pharmacies starting on the 15th March they can go much higher. Anecdotally, more people I meet who want a vaccine are getting appointments this couple of weeks

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Is France now offering the Astra Zeneca jab to over 65s? It looks like it #COVID19 #France #macron

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@john_lichfield Interesting development. Carers and medical professionals over age 65 are being offered the Astra Zeneca jab via https://t.co/XrZqqsFPjI site. Has France changed its stance following WHO announcement?

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@HughDalton20 @campbellclaret True but we have the advantage of being an island. I would prefer a military style track and trace imposed on the few instead of confinement imposed on the many

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@john_lichfield Have read that there is fairly high wastage of vials in France compared to say the UK. Are there also delays of weeks in testing batches? All local talk is of a shortage of doses (which your reporting indicates shouldn't be the case). A mystery.

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@john_lichfield @ninser Thanks for the reply. I will do some digging next week so will reply here if I get any more details

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@ninser @john_lichfield Did you find out any more on this? Trying to find out for my mother

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@LaSqualee Bonjour, je suis journaliste avec Billboard magazine. J'écris un article suite à l'enquête ouvert par le Parquet de Paris. Vous auriez du temps à me parler ou répondre à mes quéstions. Cordialement, Robert Budden

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@tahar_chender j'essaie de vous contacter pour un article. Vous pourriez me répondre? Cordialement, Robert

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@TheOtherBond @PickardJE I thought Cummings went on a birthday jolly for his wife

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@john_lichfield Thanks for compiling this all in one place. Like your brief comments too

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@PickardJE His glasses. He finally found them

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@MattyGarland @piersmorgan These are not made up. There are differences between excess deaths (deaths above normal amount) and official covid deaths (the latter varies from country to country depending how they are calculated). Many scientists believe the excess death numbers are more accurate.

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Keep Cummings
Lose control
Destroy the NHS

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@MrMasonMills @susiejmoon This was for a project where Meghan's payment went to an elephant charity. Seems fair, above board and laudable. What's the problem?

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@Parcel2Go Please contact me regarding a parcel that has not arrived to France. Your online tracker said delivery was attempted but with no more information. However, I was at home all that day, there was no card left and no phone call. Also your website has no telephone or email