QUOTES OF THE DAY

“It’s embarrassing to watch and tragic for those terrified in Afghanistan, who are looking to Britain for a way out of the despair, but just see a government fighting like rats in a sack.”

Shadow security minister Conor McGinn on the Afghanistan fallout “These extreme storms, and the climate crisis, are here... We must be better prepared. We need to act.”

President Joe Biden on Hurricane Ida and western US states beset by wildfires, saying it was a challenge that transcends the politics of a deeply divided nation “To release an album after 40 years and still be the best of friends and enjoying each other’s company and still have total loyalty. Who has experienced that? Nobody.” Bjorn Ulvaeus, of Abba, who have recorded their first album

in 40 years