QUOTES of the week

‘I’m ashamed that I allowed myself to tell lies from the television screen. Ashamed that I allowed Russians to be turned into zombies. We just silently watched this inhumane regime.’ Editor Marina Ovsyannikova, who unfurled a ‘Stop the war! Don’t believe propaganda’ banner during Russia’s main evening news.

‘Billy Graham meets North Korea.’

Russian commentator after Vladimir Putin held a Nuremberg-style rally in Moscow.

‘Is that Mummy?’

Gabriella Ratcliffe as her mother Nazanin arrived back in Britain following six years of detention in Iran.

‘He has really set the bar high for husbands.’ Labour MP Tulip Siddiq pays tribute to Nazanin’s husband Richard, who campaigned tirelessly for her release.

‘Beginner’s luck’ Reality TV star Georgia Toffolo’s

quip after she made £37,500 on one bet at the Cheltenham Festival.

‘My manager would be messaging me and I’d be like, “You’re interrupting my series on Netflix.” ’ DVLA worker,

as it was revealed that hundreds of staff at the agency were paid not to work early in the pandemic.

‘Stealth Omicron.’ Nickname given to a new, even more infectious strain of the Covid variant.

‘She stays too long and talks too much.

She has lived too long among men.’

The Queen’s verdict on Margaret Thatcher, as revealed in a new book, Queen Of Our Times, by the Daily Mail’s Robert Hardman.

‘I get more emails and telephone calls from people who suffer from Anglophobia.’

Councillor Claire Feaver

points to widespread discrimination against people from England as Moray Council, in north-east Scotland, launches a commitment to tackling discrimination against its Muslim population.