Bus Strike, Miliband, Taken 2, Breivik and Isle of Wight: Why are they trending?

A look at the trending topics on social networking sites and search engines today, to see what we’re interested in, and why.

The Bus Strike

In London a bus strike over has gone ahead following a dispute over Olympic bonuses. According to TFL only around 24 per cent of services were running. Justified industrial action? Or holding “the capital’s travelling public to ransom”

Ed Miliband on Immigration

The Labour leader has delivered a speech on immigration in which he admitted that his party had made mistakes in government over the issue. In a speech delivered to the Institute for Policy Research think tank he promised a tougher stance in future. @brianwheelanhack summarises his speech as “the son of Polish immigrants, claims Labour let to many Eastern European immigrants into country”. In the Independent @ianbirrell says “tough talk on immigration blurs the image of Ed Miliband as an out-of-touch north London liberal (which he is, of course).”

Taken 2

The trailer for Taken 2 has been released. Twitter users are split between excitement about a sequel to the action thriller in which Liam Neeson seeks his daughter’s kidnappers and incredulity that anyone would be foolish enough to kidnap one of the hardman’s family members again. Comedian @jackwhitehall says “Just watched the trailer for Taken 2 in a cooling bath. The excitement I had from watching it actually began to re heat the water.”

Isle of Wight

Flooding at the Isle of Wight music Festival has caused muddy mayhem and traffic chaos, with hundreds of revelers forced to sleep in their cars. @I_am_KenBarlow says “Awful for those people at the Isle of Wight Festival…I don’t mean the floods…I mean I’ve just heard that Lana Del Rey is on tonight.”

Breivik

The trial of Anders Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in an Oslo bombing and shooting spree draws to a close in Norway today. Judges must choose between absolving him of criminal responsibility by ruling him insane, but thereby potentially locking him up for life; or finding him mentally competent and running the risk he will be released in 21 years.

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