Others will say that Downing Street is, rather, shovelling all its bad news out at once in the hope that the Jubilee Weekend will soon give voters something else to think about.

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"It's only in the last 10 years that Chadians have become reliant on charcoal, they can soon learn to adapt to something else, " said the environment minister, keenly expounding the virtues of gas.

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But when the tango beat enters soon after, "Nantes" transforms into something else altogether: a new genre that could be called poignant ballroom cabaret pop, with Condon's drowsy voice intoning over it.

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