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She reckons that Labour are currently winning the TikTok war based on their engagement metrics — the total number of views, likes and comments. Some of their most effective content is simple Tory-bashing, such as a fake dating app profile of Rishi Sunak with the caption “It’s a no from me” (195,000 views, 17,500 likes). Or a video of a pothole that leads to Rishi Sunak’s face, captioned “POV: You ask why there are so many potholes in the UK” (487,000 views, 52,900 likes). But Smith-Galer also warns against cheap tactics that don’t exactly translate to real life efficacy. “Labour have won the engagement and output race so far, but an over-reliance on memes is a brand strategy from the early 2020s,” Galer says. “It works for awareness raising about a brand name, and works less well for direc...

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All is fair in love and war — and when it comes to dating in London’s high society: there’s a little fawning and a lot of fight. But who is even playing? Earlier this month Britain’s most eligible bachelor, the billionaire Hughie Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, married Olivia Henson at Chester Cathedral. And he’s not the only in-demand member of the elite to have been recently snapped up. Also off the table (for now) are Sophie Turner, who has coupled up with top aristo Peregrine ‘Perry’ Pearson, heir to the 4th Viscount Cowdray. Iris Law is with England football player Trent Alexander-Arnold and Poppy Delevingne bagged Archie Keswick, an absolute catch thanks to his billionaire, Mandarin Oriental hotel chain owning, father. As society summer starts to hit its peak, here are the single...

Decades ago Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly, Liz Taylor and Jackie O established Mykonos’ status as a European hotspot. Come the late 2010s it became synonymous with party-loving celebrity patrons such as Lindsey Lohan, Bella Hadid, and Kendall Jenner — who went viral after posting a video of herself drinking from the bottle on a jet ski. She was at Ornos Bay’s Santa Marina resort, which has earned a reputation as a place to both hide out and let loose. Source link

Sir Keir once called Corbyn his “friend”, particularly in his campaign to win over the Labour membership in 2020, but they are now in a bitter feud. Sir Keir was a key figure in Corbyn’s team, but now says he “never thought they would win” the 2017 or 2019 elections. What does Corbyn make of this, I ask? “He didn’t say that at the time,” Corbyn says. “He never hinted at that, or intimated that at any stage to me. We did press conferences and events together in the 2019 election. He was part of the shadow cabinet that agreed the manifesto, and part of the Clause V [meeting of top Labour figures] who agreed the manifesto. Own it. I was there, he was there… and there were witnesses,” he says. Source link

GEIGER’S GREAT BRITISH GARDEN COLLECTIONKurt GeigerKurt Geiger is leaning into its Britishness with its countryside garden-inspired new collaboration with botanical artist and floristry wizard, Tattie Isles. The collection was born via Isles’ friendship with Rebecca Farrar-Hockley, Kurt Geiger’s chief creative officer, who live near each other in bucolic west Dorset. Ranging from teapots to sun hats, gardening gloves and watering cans to, of course, floral-strewn trainers, hiking sandals and Kensington handbags, each piece is printed with Isles’ whimsical oil pastel designs featuring foxgloves, pansies, roses and daisies. Farrar-Hockley describes the result as “conjuring a spirit of what it means to be British and uniqueness of a British garden at its most abundant. There is a lack of form...

Opting for an age gap or going boy sober? Desperate newbie or turning a blind eye to your partner’s misdemeanours? Prefer hot rodents or not attached to the outcome? Summer 2024 might just have the weirdest coupling rituals yet. Here’s Emily Phillips’ guide to saying afloat in the dating Upside Down Source link

The menswear collections in Paris have heated up thanks to the Dior show, designed by Kim Jones, which caused a buzz in the fashion capital on Friday, 21 June. Kate Moss arrived arm-in-arm with boyfriend Count Nikolai von Bismarck in support of Jones, who is a long-term friend, as they joined a stellar guestlist including Demi Moore and her minuscule Chihuahua, Pilaf, Robert Pattinson, Brooklyn Beckham and the Colombian singer Maluma.  Kate Moss and Nikolai von Bismarck Vianney Le Caer/Invision/APMany will be relieved to see Moss and von Bismarck cosied up, following rumours of a split after a Gucci show in London last month — where better to squash them than the city of love? For the photocall, Moss posed alongside the French actress and singer Amanda Lear.  Robert Pattinson Dave Benet...

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After such a long journey, in which he has practically grown up with Slave Play, Harris’s undimmed enthusiasm about the play is noticeable, as if it has only deepened the role theatre plays in all aspects of his life. ‘Theatre is my religion,’ he tells me. ‘Growing up I read so many plays. And now, like some monk, writing plays for me is like writing little prayers to myself. And not everyone’s invited into my prayer. But much like you can read, say, Thomas Aquinas, that’s hopefully what is happening with people who engage with my work.’ Source link