THEY SAID WHAT?

“Prince Harry just got demoted again”

Comedian David Walliams on the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby son.

“Feeding times will start to resemble a custard pie fight in a Laurel and Hardy film”

– Author and commentator Quentin Letts, himself a father of three, in an open letter to William on the vicissitudes of having three children.

“The enemy of family cooking is probably taking phones to the table” – Broadcaster Claudia Winkleman, pictured.

“Russia’s flagrant disregard for international norms and laws poses a grave threat to the global order we rely on for our collective security. In wielding its UN veto 12 times on Syria, it has given a green flag to President Assad to perpetrate human rights atrocities against his own people”

– International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt.

“More confused and confusing than a drunk driver negotiating Spaghetti Junction in the rush hour”

– BBC arts editor Will Gompertz on historian Simon Schama’s new TV series Civilisations.

“In Civilisations, you’ll find this history of connectedness across cultures told afresh, because all we have done is offer the rich truth of the story of art. But if that should turn out to help build bridges of cultural understanding rather than demolish them, no-one I think will be the worse off ”

– Simon Schama defends the series.

“No publisher or publicist will tell me what to put where or how many pages to write. This is not a financial opportunity. This is an innate need to be expressive”

– Rapper Kanye West on a book he is writing.