THEY SAID WHAT?

“A fake story demeaning to all of us and most of all to our country and to our constitution. I just hope the final determination is a truly honest one, which is what the millions of people who gave usour big win in November deserve and what all Americans who want a better future want and deserve” – US President Donald Trump on news that a grand jury has been convened over allegations of Russian involvement in the presidential election. “I’m aware I’m never going to be perfect, and I’m going to keep making mistakes but what I’m not going to do is let my past dictate my future. What I’m not going to do is be ashamed of my mistakes. I want to be a man that learns from them and grows from them”

– Pop singer Justin Bieber on learning he would not be charged after knocking down a photographer with his pick-up truck. “There was the same literalism, the same passionate intensity, the same apocalyptic violence as now” – Historian David Starkey, above, describing Henry VIII’s break with Rome as a “Tudor Brexit”. “I would like to think I will always periodically go back to the stage until the day I die. As a woman, that’s where all the good roles are once you are past a certain age in your 40s”

– Actress Natalie Dormer. “My nose isn’tblocked. It’s my accent” – Sky News anchor Kay Burley responds to a critic who said she often sounds like she has a cold. “Blue tits are soppy and great tits are bullies” – Wildlife expert and comedian Bill Oddie.