Quotes of the week

“She declared that it was almost impossible to trigger article 50 this year but it’s quite likely that they will be ready, maybe in January, maybe in February, next year” European council president Donald Tusk on what British Prime Minister Theresa May told him. He said the rest of the EU was ready to start negotiations “tomorrow”. “It was necessary to do but when you think about it down the track, you’re left thinking ‘Jeez, we were pretty awful, for the way we’ve treated this poor guy. Not only has he lost his wife but now he’s been treated pretty badly by us in some respects’,” In ‘Conviction — Finding Jill’, Australian Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Butler indicated that Tom Meagher was harshly treated in the immediate aftermath of his wife’s disappearance. “She was dynamic and highly motivated. One imagines Caitriona coming to work in the library after possibly dangling off a cliff edge an hour earlier to sit down with a group of children to do story hour or an art and craft session.” Helen Flynn pays tribute to volunteer Coastguard Caitriona Lucas. “I am running for everyone working hard to support their families, everyone who has been knocked down but gets back up” Hillary Clinton, the Democrat candidate for the White House, resumes campaigning after recovering from pneumonia. “I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. I think they should disarm immediately, what do you think, yes? Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns. Take them, let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay. It will be very dangerous.” Donald Trump, The Republican presidential nominee was speaking at a rally in Miami, where he contrasted his supporters, who he said back police and want crime reduced, to Mrs Clinton, who he derided as someone who “lives behind walls and raises money from hedge funds.” “Greedy and beset by unbridled ambition” Colin Powell, former US secretary of state, hits out at Hillary Clinton. “I love McDonald’s. I blame my dad for all of this, I’ve got his eating habits” Pop star Olly Murs on his passion for fast food. “Spanking is underrated. It’s the satisfying smack of skin on skin” Alan Johnson, British Labour’s former home secretary. “I have seen some pretty gruesome things in my time, but watching Ed Balls on the dance floor should be the spectacle requiring recovery therapy” Author Frederick Forsyth. I’m not a tax fraud, I’m not a tax cheat, but at the moment I’m at the complete mercy of HM Revenue & Customs because of things that happened back then” Former England footballer Ian Wright, who has severe tax problems as a result, he says, of bad advice given him in the 1990s. “We Europeans can never accept, never, Polish workers being harassed, beaten up or even murdered in the streets of Essex” European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. “We were force-grown, like rhubarb” The late John Lennon reproduced in new film: The Beatles — Eight Days A Week, The Touring Years.