Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
■ “No, but I think the important thing I think people want us to get on and do as a Government is to make sure that the lockdowns work”
– PM Boris Johnson when asked if he had said that he would rather “bodies pile high in their thousands” than order a third lockdown.
■ “There is simply no capacity for Government to pause these efforts and divert resources to an intensive independent inquiry. The very people who would need to give evidence to an inquiry are working round the clock to respond to the pandemic and keep us all safe”
– A letter from the Government Legal Department to members of
the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group.
■ “Today the police will kill three people. And tomorrow the police will kill three people. And the day after that, the police will kill three people because on average the police in America every day kill three people, which amounts to about 1,000 people a year. And those people happen to disproportionately be black people. I just ask that you not be indifferent.
Please don’t be indifferent to our pain”
– Best live-action short Oscar winner Travon Free.
■ “My mum met my dad, they had sex. It’s amazing. I’m here! I’m so happy to be alive”
– Daniel Kaluuya after he won the best supporting actor Oscar for Judas And The Black Messiah.
■ “We ended up making this movie for her as her monument. So Ida, this is a miracle that just happened and you are part of this miracle, but this one’s for you”
– Another Round director Thomas Vinterberg paid tribute to his late daughter after winning the international feature Oscar.
■ “The story of how and why John Darwin faked his own death to defraud insurance companies is fascinating, and if it weren’t fact, you’d think it unbelievable. I can’t pretend to understand what was going on in his head when he made those choices, but I’m going to do my absolute best to portray him, and I can’t wait to get started”
– Actor Eddie Marsan who will star in ITV drama The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe.