Ben McPartland

Any genuine Fontaines DC fans out there who got spare tickets for Paris Zenith concert on Wednesday night? Touts and bots pipe down.

@caitlin090 @sadIylouise @AmandaHern1422 Hi, Have you still got the tickets available?

One of the most shocking things I've ever seen on twitter 👇 This poem was written by someone sent to Dachau concentration camp for resisting the Nazis Thank goodness British people removed from power someone with so loathsome a moral compass as @EstherMcVey1 Truly abhorrent

These 2 Plymouth rioters have been convicted of 209 previous offences + they told the police they were rioting because immigrants cost the taxpayer too much money. Judge Linford made them work out how much their offending had cost Britain's taxpayers over the last 38 years.👇🏻

Just left @Paris2024 Olympic Games and I can say that (with apologies to my old home city of London), it was the best Olympic Games I’ve ever been to (and it was my 9th Games). Tremendous venues, atmosphere, culture, food and people. C’est Bon!

I do think we should get more credit for hosting France’s annual riots while they have the Olympics. Proper Entente cordiale

I celebrate for The Local France a half century of progress on the once murderous French roads. Who deserves praise? Many people... but not all French drivers. thelocal.fr/20240807/opini…

Lucy Connolly wants to see migrants burnt alive. Lucy Connolly is a registered childminder with children of all races and ethnicity in her care. Lucy Connolly is also the wife of a Conservative Party elected official.

France’s new national treasure Léon Marchand 22 years old Four gold medals, Paris 2024 🇫🇷🏅

The moment the Olympics died.

Are the Paris Olympics doing the unthinkable and making the French happy? dlvr.it/TBJfHP

Making history 🏊‍♀️ I’ve been in #Paris a week now, have walked or used the metro (uncrowded compared to usual) to get to 5 different venues & have never been so enchanted with @Paris @ParisJeTaime 💞 Impeccable organisation & use of historic locations by @Paris2024 Huge bravo🥇

@jonhenley @PhilippeAuclair Great read from Philippe. He got it spot on.

"a nation whose main problem sometimes appears to be that it believes it has a problem ... " Terrific read from @PhilippeAuclair theguardian.com/world/article/…

A new Parisian icon is born

The Olympic torch has just passed by The Local's offices on the Bassin de la Villette on the way to the opening ceremony this evening. It's stopped raining too...! And the French trains are starting to run again... ! Let the games begin!

What a truly revolting thing to say…..

@cognacproperty Ahh thanks..didnt know that. Was wondering if there had ever been a stage finish here... not many cyclists up this way. There were hundreds on the col to Tourmalet...

Bloody hell. Me and Victor Hugo have more than one thing in common! Aswell as being decent writers we are both big fans of the breathtaking Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrennees. I just discovered this World Heritage site today. Big Vic called it the "Colosseum of Nature". Spot on