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Our 9 favourite reactions to Toby Young’s cringeworthy Prince Andrew self-own

Oonagh Keating. Updated November 22nd, 2019

After watching the Duke of York’s car crash TV interview and seeing the fallout, insistent commentator, Toby Young, felt he should weigh in with some fairly useless advice to HRH, unless he’s in possession of a time machine, that is.

Now logic, as well as Young’s subsequent explanations, suggest that he was referring to the foolishness of doing such an interview, rather than any illegal activities carried out by the prince’s child-trafficking former – now late – friend, Jeffrey Epstein. But his tweet very much looked like a horrible self-own, which is almost his stock in trade.

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Writer, Sarah Dempster, reacted not to the content of the tweet, but to the fact that it was, yet again, ill-thought-out and self-damaging.

When will the free-school founder learn?

Source: Toby Young, Twitter, Image: Twitter, Newsnight