QUOTES of the week

‘The best advert for Brexit.’

Headline in the respected German newspaper Die Zeit as it compares the UK’s vaccine response to the debacle in the EU.

‘The EU is absolutely welcome to gain access to UK vaccines. It just needs to apply for membership of the UK, ensure it makes its contribution to the UK Treasury and accepts supremacy of UK law.’ Guardian reader ‘JackCade1420’ offers a novel solution to the AstraZeneca row.

‘I’ve put up with Paul Burrell in the jungle so I think I could cope with two weeks in an airport hotel.’ Janet Street-Porter gives the Government’s quarantine plan for holidaymakers her approval.

‘These pics were in fact taken by my 80-year-old mother. Not entirely sure if that puts minds at rest or not.’ Liz Hurley responds to claims that the picture, right, was taken by her son Damian, 18.

‘The police reported several hundred protesters on Saturday, and a few thousand of them were arrested.’ Chess star Garry Kasparov’s mocking tweet over Russian state attempts to crush dissent last weekend.

‘It was basically saying I wasn’t hot enough to pull off this kind of ruse.’ Actress Carey Mulligan who complained about a Variety magazine review that insinuated she was not attractive enough to play a femme fatale in the new film Young Promising Woman.

‘I do extra-special, crinkly-eye smiling.’ Joanna Lumley on how she makes sure people know she’s smiling beneath her face mask.

‘Part of me got in it for the hype but part of me did it for another reason – I hate billionaires.’ Sayem Ahmed, one of the amateur traders who took revenge on hedge funds by driving up the price of video games firm GameStop.