Marooned on Love Island. But what’s really going on?

Love islanders ponder the point of fancying, fitness and fate

This week, afloat on my sofa like a modern Odysseus, I’ve been dallying on “Love Island” where lotus-eating young people with huge eyebrows sit around in wisps of clothing, drinking large glasses of brightly coloured nectar and talking of fancying, fitness and fate.

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