WHAT THEY SAY
Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity - The World Health Organisation.
I totally understand the frustration. But it isn’t helpful, I don’t think, to do it in a way that alienates people ... The difficulty is, how do you direct that frustration in a way that is more constructive rather than destructive? - The Prince of Wales says he understands why climate campaign groups such as Extinction Rebellion stage protests and block roads.
I’ve seen people be sick with excitement, I’ve seen people resign their job on the spot, I’ve seen people jumping up and down, I’ve known husbands who haven’t told wives and wives who haven’t told husbands, I’ve been to homes where there’s literally a party going on already - Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery.
I think so much needs to be done about sexual violence and violence towards women and it needs to start in school, it needs to start with basic ideas of decency, it needs to then evolve into proper sex education, to ideas of consent, to an understanding that we’re all equal, that women aren’t property, that women aren’t goods and chattels to be used and abused - TV presenter Sue Perkins.
I did go and see James Bond the other day and I thought the Bond girls are so kick ass. Why do they need to be James Bond?” - Suranne Jones, who has been touted as one of the frontrunners to succeed Daniel Craig as the fictional spy if the franchise was to choose its first female lead, says she would not be in favour of a female Bond.