Quotes of the week
Do I feel jubilant after all these years? .. No, I bloody don’t
Ricky Tomlinson
overturns his conviction for picketing in the 1972 builders’ strike Arthur Dent is a burk Douglas Adams’ frustration
with his Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy hit is revealed in
his archive My predecessor... Oh my God, how I miss him
President Biden holds
his first White House press conference since ousting Donald Trump The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends
Boris Johnson echoes
Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko character in the hit film Wall Street
Such men are impossible to live with
Veteran actress Sian Philips – ex-wife of Peter O’Toole – says the era of hard-living actors is over The financial cost to the taxpayer is enormous but nowhere near as big as the cost to our democracy
Ex Lib Dem leader Tim
Farron calls for hereditary peers to be
abolished
They must be the meanest parish councillors in the country
Childminder Hannah Lovelock is banned from
taking kids to her allotment in Stoke Poges,
Bucks
Do I fantasise?
Yes!
Jane Fonda, 83, dreams of
dating a younger man People say I’ve squandered a fortune on booze, gambling and women ... that’s a lot better than wasting it
Ex England striker Frank Worthington, who died
on Monday aged 72