QUOTES of the week

‘I’m sure you share with me the sadness at Channel 4 News staff having to take CVs to the job centre and being told there are no vacancies for lefty dimwits wanting

£150k a year before getting out of bed.’

Kelvin MacKenzie tweets his reaction to the Government’s

plan to privatise Channel 4. ‘Really feel sorry for Ed Sheeran that a court case has proven that he is the person responsible for his songs.’

Twitter user ‘Dave’.

‘#ByeByeChanel.’

Hashtag used by Russian models who have posted videos of them cutting up their handbags after the fashion firm pulled out of the country. ‘I don’t think biological males should be competing in female sporting events.

Maybe that’s a controversial thing to say, but it just seems to me to be sensible.’ Boris Johnson sticks his neck out on the trans

athlete debate.

‘On Instagram, any old pervert can privately send you something that should be illegal.’ Rachel Riley hits out at the failure of social-media giants to halt the vile abuse that she regularly receives.

‘I want to be buried at sea. The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I’ll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it.’ EastEnders star June Brown, who has died aged 95, reveals her funeral wishes in a 2013 interview. ‘Suddenly those words started to hurt, started to poke at dormant insecurities.’ Cinderella star Carrie Hope Fletcher says being bullied by the Ugly Sisters in the West End musical is hitting her mental health in real life. ‘I’ve often said I think the air is full of stories – you just have to have the right receiver and you pick them up.’

Mr Benn author David McKee, who has died aged 87, reveals his story-telling secret.