QUOTES of the week

‘Not throwing in the towel just yet. But I am burning my ties, ordering a stock of vests and a Mao hat.’

Labour MP Paul Flynn reluctantly prepares for a Jeremy Corbyn victory in his party’s leadership election

‘They are unversed in Trotsky-style sectarianism. Some think Pravda is a handbag.’

An insider at The Guardian reveals why Corbyn is the fashionable candidate among some young staffers

‘There’s a fine line between classy and trashy. It’s the difference between Chanel being your perfume and your name.’

Comedian Laura Lexx gets sniffy at the Edinburgh Fringe festival

‘You were the pure, innocent joy of grass and sky and wind and sun. It was love beyond the limits of patience and sense... it was nonsensical and it was boundless’ Great British Bake Off host

Sue Perkins mourns the death of her pet beagle, Pickle

‘Too steep and too high.’

‘Grimtraveller’ misses the point of mountain climbing in his TripAdvisor one-star review of a hike up Ben Nevis

‘When those British troops and my son went to Iraq they weren’t working part-time. They gave their lives to a full-time commitment… the inquiry should do likewise.’

Reg Keys, whose Red Cap son Thomas was killed in Iraq in 2003, demands the Chilcot Inquiry is speeded up

‘I have a stalker, yes. She is not the most attractive woman, I have got to say.’

Noel Gallagher reveals that a German woman regularly breaks into hotels he is staying at

‘New cookbooks lie on the coffee table and we drool over Tuscan landscapes and rustic bread ovens. Before ordering a pizza.’

Cook Prue Leith says modern cookery tomes are more about pretty pictures than recipes

‘Poldark is not beefy enough for me, a bit too lean. No, you need a proper bloke who looks like he could actually carry you across the marshes for some considerable time without a horse.’

Presenter Penny Smith remains unimpressed by actor Aidan Turner’s portrayal of the Cornish television heart-throb