QUOTES of the week

‘If you are going to arrest 300 activists you have to think about getting some vegan food ready. There was no soy milk either, so I had to have my tea black.’ Eco-protester Zack Polanski moans about food in custody after his arrest in London.

‘Be it the finger-waggers at The Guardian or naked hysterics superglueing themselves to railings, the Left is glutted with clueless white people who think they are the vanguard of our species.’ Author Nirpal Dhaliwal gives his verdict on the Extinction Rebellion.

‘What? To commemorate the fact we met four seconds ago?’John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty-style response to a fan’s request for a selfie.

‘I had a piece of salmon and my brain felt like a computer rebooting.’ Actress Anne Hathaway who ditched her long-time veganism after an Icelandic fish supper.

‘If France’s fashion emperors want to buy into heaven, they should put their money to use for people who need it – not to turn Notre-Dame into a rich man’s trophy church.’ Broadcaster Janet Street-Porter on the huge donations being pledged to rebuild Paris’s fire-ravaged cathedral.

‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f ***** .’ President Trump, quoted in Robert Mueller’s report after learning of Mueller’s appointment to investigate Trump’s links with Russia.

‘I did try one of those electronic cigarettes but it was so heavy it kept falling out of my mouth.’ June Brown, 92-year-old EastEnders star, says she won’t be giving up her 70-year smoking habit – or red wine.