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- The BBC is in trouble again over some of its coverage of the election - it's been accused of being biased in favour of Boris Johnson? Do you think the BBC is losing its balance?
- Dr Nicola Duffy who works at the Covid-19 centre at Altnagelvin Hospital says the footballer James McClean “has purchased kit, equipment and sanitisers due to be delivered in the coming days.” #coronavirus
- .@jeremycorbyn says he's open to continuing in frontline politics with a role in the shadow cabinet once @UKLabour chooses its new leader. Why is it so difficult for politicians to know when to call it a day?
- Today we speak to the family of lorry driver, Fra McCaffrey, who may have been blinded in one eye when a recycling bin filled with large rocks was thrown from an overpass, smashing his windscreen & filling his cab with glass. Listen from 12: bbc.in/3sphoka
- Belfast's Lord Mayor and general election candidate, John Finucane, and his late father and family are being targetted in a poster campaign -- why do some people think it's even close to appropriate to attack the family of a victim of the Troubles for political purposes?
- Everyone is talking about Prince Andrew and that 'car-crash' TV interview .... with calls now that he should agree to give evidence under oath with the FBI in the United States. Should the Queen get involved and tell her son he should stand aside from all public roles?
- Advice from @WomensAidNI: ‘If you hear a row going on between your neighbours and you are concerned, you should ring the police. We need to create a society that has a zero tolerance towards domestic violence and abuse.’
- We'll introduce you to a #tradwife, a young woman who has chosen to be a traditional wife, staying at home to take care of the household chores while her husband works, and she is fine with submitting to her husband as he makes the key decisions in their lives.
- QUB law professor Colin Harvey tells us he's been "under siege" from some unionists because of his academic work on Irish unity. The UUP leader Steve Aiken says QUB needs to show more political balance. Are you concerned that politicians are trying to restrict academic freedom?
- .@GRobinsonDUP becomes the first elected DUP politician to publicly agree with the party's former leader Peter Robinson that unionism needs to prepare for a border poll. Is this the beginning of a change in how unionism will approach a debate it has previously ignored?
- The leading archive of the Troubles, based at Ulster University, is to be mothballed due to a lack of funding. It’s called CAIN, the conflict archive on the internet. Shouldn’t that archive be saved as record of living history?
- We'll also ask how democracy is working in Europe when the former Catalan president is arrested in Germany because Spain wants to put him on trial for rebellion.
- After 1pm: Half a million people march in London against #Brexit - is that the start of a great awakening; or just the biggest moan-fest in history?
