Bridgerton popularising string covers of pop music has a lot to answer for... and I lap up every single one #LoveIsland
Gemma is 19 and I hope in a few years she stops taking herself so seriously. Life will be more fun! And she won't dress like she's starring in the Dallas reboot #LoveIsland
Laura had a dreadful accident in the Shein warehouse just before going live :( #LoveIsland
Davide giving a Capricorn full appraisal here #LoveIsland
I tried to fight it... but I'm sitting here grinning like a loon at Andrew and Tasha. They're two sweet kids! They make each other better! #LoveIsland
Andrew and I are the same age. But wetness takes a few years off
Maybe you've never heard of 'Maya Lothian-McLean' @afneil because that's not my name. Merci for the write up tho!
dailymail.co.uk/debate/article… Andrew Neil is really mad at the NYT publishing op-eds from names he doesn't recognise lol. Only Andrew Neil is allowed to publish with the NYT!
The piece is funny because it's Neil - who last wrote a guest essay for the NYT on 8 July – basically being angry that a paper he rates would dare publish a) non-prolific journalists and writers and b) opinions from non-prolific journalists and writers he disagrees with
it brings me no joy to report that the interpol are on their way to apprehend Laura for aesthetic crimes (with secondary charges of bad hosting) #LoveIsland
Laura... if I speak! Not putting her guests at ease, never asks the interesting questions, rushes to fill gaps where the good stuff happens, can't just let things marinate. Feels more nervous than the contestants at times #LoveIsland
Got down to Colnbook Removal Centre; at the moment activists are still blocking the road, trying to buy time for remaining people yet to be moved to flight
News in: injunction has been successful - one of those detained will not be on flight
Officers have now removed all but two pairs of activists from front of immigration centre - at one point there was a chase followed by a rough takedown
Outside the Home Office for @novaramedia, live tweeting today’s demo against the #Rwanda deportations which are set to begin tomorrow. Protesters are starting to gather in earnest, as police struggle to usher traffic down Marsham Street.
.@bencsmoke is leading speakers today; he starts by noting the presence of @HackneyCopWatch and Legal Observers to support in response to police presence.
It appears there are two concurrent protests happening outside the Hone Office; one organised by a coalition of rights organisations and the other, reportedly, by Stand Up To Racism.
Fun fact about Matt Faulding: he met someone close to me recently who was introduced to him as not being a Starmer fan. Faulding said: 'Oh are you another antisemitic lefty?'. Began introducing him to others – including a London Lab politican – as an "antisemitic lefty"
It was just a massive joke to them; they were making gags about the left being wholly antisemitic and about "rooting them all out". The only thing he knew about this person was they didn't like Starmer – that was enough in Faulding's head to deem him antisemitic.
This person also said they'd resigned their Labour membership and Faulding joked something along the lines of 'that's good, we don't want your type in the party'.
"If we don't make a difference, 'no justice, no peace' means nothing" says Brenda Weinberg, sister of Brian Douglas in a pensive speech at the UFFC march. She says we should have owned the street today, not been pushed off the road. She's right.
Protesting isn't the be all and end all but I've noticed faltering attendance from those who could very easily come and show up. And we need people to show up.
Police assured demonstrators here today that the riot police "weren't here for [the UFFC march]". "Why?" said Brenda. "They should be here for us. Are we so inconsequential now?"