QUOTES of the week

‘James Corden is a hugely gifted comedian but a tiny cretin of a man.’ Keith McNally, who banned the chat show host from his New York eaterie Balthazar for being abusive to staff.

‘I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance. That’s how it felt for me at the time, being reduced to this specific archetype, the word bimbo.’ Meghan Markle on her stint as a ‘briefcase girl’ on the US version of Deal Or No Deal.

‘The Prime Minister is not under a desk.’ Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt answering questions from MPs on behalf of an absent Liz Truss.

‘I am a fighter, not a quitter.’ Liz Truss at Prime Minister’s Questions battling for her survival. She quit the next day.

‘I hate that Brad Pitt.’ Geena Davis recalls George Clooney’s words of frustration that Pitt was cast opposite her in Thelma & Louise rather than him.

‘Hope you enjoyed your holiday, boss. Time to come back. Few issues at the office that need addressing.’ Tory MP James Duddridge tweets his support for Boris Johnson in the leadership race.

‘It’s the Guardianreading, tofu-eating wokerati… that we have to thank for the disruption that we are seeing on our roads.’ Suella Braverman before she resigned as Home Secretary hits out at eco-warriors bringing chaos to London.

‘Seeing your GP should not be like phoning a call centre or booking an Uber driver who you will never see again.’ MPs on the Health and Social Care Committee warn that GP-patient relationships should be from the ‘cradle to grave’.

‘History is not a form of therapy. It should not be a form of therapy to all sorts of disaffected groups to please some activists.’ Cambridge professor Robert Tombs says that schools shouldn’t turn history lessons into ‘comforting’ stories to please activists.