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“There isn’t a real urgency or inner rhythm there, so he is trying to compensate with the flick of a wrist and he does that over and over again, and that becomes very repetitive. I know he was out enjoying himself and for that I would give him a 10 to encourage anybody to go out there. But as a technical scenario, the only possible score I could give is a three” - Craig Revel Horwood judges Michael Gove’s dancing after the Cabinet Office minister was spotted throwing some shapes on the dancefloor at a club night in Aberdeen. “They have said that they want to be treated like a legitimate government. There’s a long way to go before we might consider that” - Foreign Office Minister James Cleverly says the Taliban will be judged on its actions as governments consider how to deal with the regime in Kabul.

“I’m incredibly embarrassed about my language, I do apologise to everybody who’s listened to that. I was at the lowest point I could possibly be. I understand how the world works but emotions got the better of me, so for all those who had to listen to that I do apologise for my language” - Paul “Pen” Farthing addresses his expletive-laden message to a government aide while he tried to evacuate 170 dogs and cats from an animal shelter in Afghanistan to the UK.

“I came to study here 36 years ago and I felt like I belonged here from the word go. The spirit of this institution has made me the performer that I am today” - Hollywood actor Alan Cumming speaks after being awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater drama school, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.