Words of the week

MY life is your history and we

should keep it that way. – Yorkshireborn social justice activist and RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith who has died aged 95. THE past smells completely different to the present. – Bestselling novelist Kate Atkinson, who claims to have “an imaginary sense of smell”. I FIND them aesthetically

beautiful – money encased in concrete and metal does it for me every time. – Commentator Julie Burchill on cash machines. WE memento are a satellite mori fixed state on – the a walls of warning Brussels to all as a who ghastly try to gaping escape. – agreement. Boris Johnson on Theresa May’s PLOUGHING act of national on self-harm. is not stoic, – Labour it’s an leader Jeremy Corbyn attacks Theresa May’s Brexit deal. IF they are single there is no problem, is there? And I don’t think it’s a curse because some people really do find love. – Shirley Ballas, head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, dismisses the so-called Strictly curse. THEIR Lordships do go on and on, and it is quite unnecessary. I get very impatient. – Tory peer Baroness Trumpington, 96, who died this week. SHE always had time to deliver a good telling-off, give advice or pay a compliment. I had the privilege of being at the receiving end of all three! – Baroness Sayeeda Warsi’s tribute to her fellow peer.

IF you feel pressure, stay at home. When I say ‘home’, I don’t mean stadium-home. I mean home-home and watch on TV. – Under-fire Manchester United manager Jose Mourniho turns on his players. I COULD go and manage Gainsborough Trinity next week, or even back in a Sunday league again, and it wouldn’t worry me. – Outspoken football manager Neil Warnock, who turns 70 today.

STUPIDITY is on the march everywhere. – Author Philip Reeve.

REBELLION has always kind of being associated with youth, but it doesn’t have to be. – Icelandic actress Hera Hilmar.