QUOTES of the week

‘Now is not the time for the economics of Chicken Licken.’

Bank of England economist Andy Haldane compares the gloomy financial forecasters to the children’s storybook character who told everyone that the sky was about to fall on them.

‘That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.’ American journalist Jake Tapper describes the first, ill-tempered debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

‘Prove that you wish to become part of the human race again, not be from some subculture who go around dragging their knuckles over the pavement.’ Magistrate Neil Brettell warns teenage girls Charlie Beaumont and Jamie Leigh Perkins to behave after they spat at police during a vodkafuelled rampage.

‘Don’t be obsessed with boys! Hang out with your girl mates.’ Actress Lily James offers some advice to her younger self.

‘The worst you’ll get at Twickenham is someone might spill port on your trousers.’ Ex-England rugby star James Haskell says that while the away team is abused at Cardiff, opponents get a warmer welcome in London.

‘Her actions were dangerous and indefensible. I have no power to force an MP to resign but I hope she will do the right thing.’ Nicola Sturgeon after SNP MP Margaret Ferrier went on an 800-mile round-trip train journey from Glasgow to London while infected with Covid.

‘It’s going to be called can’t smell or taste the difference.’ Times Radio’s Matt Chorley as former Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe heads the Test and Trace effort.

‘Sozzled, wally, boogie and nincompoop.’ Some of the words that Britons aged between 18 and 30 have never heard of, according to a new survey.