The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)

Who said it

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“I knew instantly the kind of hate that I was about to receive and that is a sad reality that your powerful platforms are not doing enough to stop these messages. There is no place for racism or hate of any kind in football or in any area of society” - England footballer Bukayo Saka urges social media platforms to step up their efforts to stamp out racial abuse after being targeted in the wake of his Euro 2020 final penalty miss. “I’m just so disappoint­ed and angry that people think saying those things is acceptable. I do think that something needs to be done on social media where no one can be anonymous, because it’s just disgusting” - TV’S Scarlett Moffatt calls for social media platforms to remove the anonymity of users following the abuse directed at England footballer­s. “If we are careful and if we continue to respect this disease and its continuing menace then it is highly probable, almost all the scientists are agreed on this, the worst of the pandemic is behind us. There are difficult days and weeks ahead as we deal with the current wave of the Delta variant and there will be sadly more hospitalis­ation and more deaths but with every day that goes by we build higher the wall of vaccineacq­uired immunity”

- Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“On chilled meats, if people think that is what a trade war is they are really going to be surprised when there is an actual war. That was not a trade war, that wasn’t even a trade handbags at dawn”

- Aodhan Connolly, from the NI Retail Consortium, on the “sausage war” post-brexit trade dispute between the UK and EU.

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