QUOTES of the week

‘Mr Incredible… he looks a bit like him, although a bit skinnier.’ England cricket captain Joe Root compares Ben Stokes to the Disney super-hero after his match-winning performance against the West Indies.

‘There are all these anti-vaxxers now. They are nuts.’ Boris Johnson rounds on opponents of vaccinations during a visit to an East London GP surgery.

‘Imagine Diane Abbott getting her head around the R number.’ Jeremy Paxman thinks the Labour politician would have struggled to get a grip during the pandemic.

‘The day when I know I’m about to die, I’m going to get in my car, aged 90, and I’m going to drive into cyclists wearing Lycra, kill the lot of them and go and die in jail.’ Fashionista Susannah Constantine enrages the cycling lobby.

‘The Crown In Brown.’ Director Mira Nair’s affectionate nickname for A Suitable Boy, the new BBC drama with an all-Indian cast.

‘We have three kids together so I think we are good, thanks.’ Sir Matthew Pinsent’s reply to social network LinkedIn, which sent him details of his wife, Demetra, as a ‘suggested connection’.

‘I’m not too worried really – I work in Asda.’ British holidaymaker Charmaine Bell dismisses coronavirus fears during her trip to Magaluf.

‘I don’t want to alarm anyone about the economy but I advertised two jobs at 4.30 on Thursday. We’ve had over 400 applications. Gulp.’ Mick Dore, general manager of the Alexandra pub in Wimbledon, is overwhelmed by the response to £9-an-hour jobs.