THEY SAID WHAT?

“The world is always saying to us, if you just buy that designer label pair of jeans, or if you wore that expensive perfume, or if you drove a fast car, or if you got that cosmetic surgery, oh, well then you would be happy, then you would be fulfilled. But none of it works. Or perhaps, to be more accurate, it works just enough to get you addicted. Sometimes I think ... we have just become a nation of junkies hooked on the idea that you can find fulfilment from these things” – The Bishop of Chelmsford, the

Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell.

“The links between us go beyond trade. I’m very pleased with the people-to-people links we have been able to build on in education and in culture too” – Theresa May, speaking in Shanghai about British-Sino relations.

“I loathe Oprah Winfrey. I’d firmly warn against hiring her as a shoulder to cry on, never mind consider her suitable to be the next president of the United States” – Weakest Link star Anne

Robinson, above.

“A lot of Chinese people would affectionately call you, in Chinese, Auntie May” – A Chinese TV interviewer addressing the Prime Minister, who said she was honoured by the nickname.

“The arts (and especially theatre) world will be wearing black armbands today, as they learn that a bursting diary has forced me, very regretfully, to stand down from presenting the next series of Front Row on BBC2” – Journalist and restaurant critic

Giles Coren.