QUOTES of the week
‘It’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions and about our culture, and we stopped this fight of self-recrimination and wetness.’
Boris Johnson attacks the BBC in the row over the Last Night Of The Proms.
‘That thing we’ve been saying for 64 years? Ignore it.’ KFC drops its ‘finger licking good’ slogan because it doesn’t fit with coronavirus guidelines.
‘The night of the long protractors.’ Nickname given to the purge at the Education Department and exams regulator Ofqual following the grades fiasco.
‘It’s the time of year when I have to explain to the TV Licensing Authority why King George III hasn’t paid up since 1820.’ Kew Palace manager Rachel Mackay
after a letter demanding payment was addressed to ‘the occupier’. The palace has been empty since the King’s death 200 years ago.
‘Perhaps one day assistants like Alexa will understand everything from dabberlick to crumpsy.’ Countdown star Susie Dent, who has been training the smart speaker to recognise regional dialects – the terms mean tall and skinny, and grumpy.
‘When leaving the venue, please remind our neighbours that drunk people have been leaving this establishment long before they decided to buy houses next door.’ Sign outside a pub in Cornwall.
‘I’m as proud as a cow with seven udders.’
Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld,
who, at 29, has become the youngest winner of the International Booker Prize.