QUOTES of the week

‘If 2020 could not get more bizarre, Adele is giving us bantu knots and cultural appropriation nobody asked for.’

Journalist Ernest Owens

after the pop star sported an African hairstyle and Jamaican costume to mark the Notting Hill Carnival.

‘Poppycock! This humbug totally misses the spirit of carnival and the tradition of dress up and masquerade.’

Labour MP David Lammy

springs to Adele’s defence over her choice of outfit.

‘The UK has officially hung up the “Closed” sign.’

Willie Walsh,

boss of British Airways’ parent company IAG, criticises the Government over its ‘evershifting’ quarantine list.

‘Join the queue!’

Furious walker

on Snowdonia to fellow visitors stuck in an hour-long line to reach the summit.

‘I’ve just seen the words

“The principal principle that we prove” in a maths paper and it’s brightened my whole day. I could barely keep my stationery stationary.’

Maths professor Sir Timothy Gowers

is a fan of wordplay too.

‘I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech.’

African American history professor Jessica Krug

bizarrely admits she has pretended to be black throughout her career – she is actually a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.

‘If you want to be an opinionated columnist or partisan campaigner on social media then that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC.’

New director-general Tim Davie

warns his star presenters that they should now keep their views to themselves.

‘I walk around like a foxy minx because I feel like a foxy minx.’ TV star Davina McCall loves the way she looks in her 50s.