ON TWITTER

#PINEAPPLEPIZZA

The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, told high school students he would ban pineapple as a pizza topping. @Mlawrencejourno tweeted: “Iceland’s President has said he would ban pineapple on pizza. The type of guy that should be leading us here in the UK.” @Lily_susann said: “I saw ‘Iceland’s President’ trending, and wondered what Trump said to insult Iceland. False alarm. It’s just about pineapples on pizza.” @Tom_faliszek posted: “Most of the world flounders with political division. Iceland’s president has a 97% approval rating and is waging a war on Hawaiian pizza.” @thistallawkgirl observed: “Maybe Iceland’s President should start with fermented shark before banning pineapple on pizza.”

#CIVILPARTNERSHIPS

A heterosexual couple have lost their Court of Appeal battle to have a civil partnership instead of getting married. @adebradley noted: “Civil partnerships were a fudge to help gay people when they couldn’t get equal marriage through parliament. Served their purpose now.” @stavvers tweeted: “Civil partnerships weren’t brought in as a cool alternative to traditional marriage. They were to show same sex relationships were inferior.” @Mmedebeauvoir wrote: “Why shouldn’t hetero couples enter into civil partnerships? Equivalent PACS has existed in France for years, open to gay & straight couples.” @ncl_medic shared: “My heart bleeds for all straight people who’ve been discriminated against by the provision of equal marriage for all.”

#LORDKERR

The House of Lords debated the bill to trigger Brexit for a second day yesterday with contributions from the Article 50 architect Lord Kerr. @estwebber tweeted: “Crossbencher and Article 50 architect Lord Kerr says it’s ‘a fact our economic relationship with EU will be less advantageous’ after Brexit.” @jcm247 said: “Parliament must have say on The Deal. Article 50 is revocable (he wrote it) - Lord Kerr.” @thehitthebside observed: “You cannot put the genie back in the bottle. Lord Kerr patronising the people.”