QUOTES of the week

‘If you sail a liner across the Atlantic then it’s not reasonable you aren’t going to have to make at least one course correction.’

Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s Deputy Medical Officer, on offering under-30s a different vaccine to the Oxford-AstraZeneca after concerns over blood clots.

‘Keep reading about single people looking forward to a summer of love but I just made some wild garlic pesto so it could be a while for me yet.’ Writer Sophia Money-Coutts fears her home-made sauce will put off potential suitors.

‘I could not advise any person to trust anything they can see on Google right now.’ Pensions Minister Guy Opperman accuses the tech giant of profiting from investment scams by failing to verify advertisers.

‘The Imran I knew used to say, “Put a veil on the man’s eyes, not on the woman.” ’ Jemima Goldsmith condemns her exhusband, Imran Khan, after the Pakistan prime minister suggested rape victims are to blame for their attacks.

‘On Monday I will be going to the pub myself and cautiously but irreversibly raising a pint of beer to my lips.’ PM Boris Johnson revealing that his roadmap to freedom led straight to his local – but the death of the Duke of Edinburgh has since put paid to his plans.

‘Despite what has happened to our family, we strongly believe everyone should go for their first and second doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. My brother was just extraordinarily unlucky.’

Dr Alison Astles, a pharmacist at the University of Huddersfield, whose brother Neil died from a rare blood clot.

‘I feel thrilled, happy and honoured.’

Ellie Taylor, 24, on becoming the first Briton to receive the Moderna vaccine in the UK.