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President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday launched a broadside against such consumers, telling the weekly cabinet meeting that "sometimes it is the city-centre bourgeoisie that is funding the traffickers".

Cut into the vessel’s hull at the waterline, for the first time in history they allowed a warship to fire broadsides at an enemy.

Then came the statement from Desmond, reiterating this, while also launching a broadside at the former manager.

Musk, who had a rather messy departure from his official government role in May, is once again making waves with a social media broadside against another Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

He has delivered expletive-laden broadsides against remote meetings, declaring that the only way to work is together, in person, the old-fashioned way.