ON TWITTER
#HEATWAVE
Much of Scotland continues to bask in warm weather with cloudless blue skies, with forecasters reporting the country is on course for its hottest June since 1995. Reaction to the news has inevitably been mixed on social media. @alexjohnporter joked: “Scotland isn’t prepared for this extreme weather. Too hot to sleep at night and nearly everyone in the country has the uncontrollable urge to go to a park and drink. We are a nation who thrives at 18c.” @vicsamp88 commented: “Scotland’s having a heatwave. That means work is cancelled tomorrow, right? Can someone confirm?” @annakramer_ offered: “There are far too many happy people enjoying the glorious evening sunshine in Edinburgh who do not have to get a train that has been cancelled back to the hellhole that is London in a heatwave – post England winning at the World Cup.” @mattgemmell said: “It’s nonsense weather in Edinburgh today. That was a warm lunchtime walk with the pup, who’s now lying on the floor in the shade and wondering what’s gone wrong with the world.”
#BREXIT
It has been reported that some London-based hedge funds made huge profits from speculating on the value of the pound on the night of the EU referendum, with suggestions that some may have benefited from polling data hours before it was made public. @Peston commented: “I am assuming the Financial Conduct Authority and Bank of England will be reading this impressive expose by Bloomberg of what looks like market manipulation on the night the UK chose Brexit – and Sterling first rose and then slumped.” @Profbriancox observed: “The behaviour of Sterling on referendum night was odd, I remember thinking. I couldn’t understand why the private exit polls appeared to have got it so wrong. Maybe they didn’t !” @Nickcohen4 offered: “The Brexit vote was spun so hedge fund managers could clean up. I wonder when, if ever, 17.4 million of our fellow citizens will realise that they’ve been played.” @peterjukes said : “Behind the scenes, a small group of people had a secret. Pollsters sold hedge funds information, including data that would have been illegal for them to give the public.”