“We need to be more angry about the situation than we are. The fact of 30,000 avoidable deaths every day is something which ought to be intolerable for us to live with”
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, backs the campaign against global poverty before a meeting at Lambeth Palace on poverty and development
“Nelson would have approved — to get the maritime back in the public eye”
Admiral Sir Alan West, the First Sea Lord, rejects accusations that celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar are triumphalist
“Has he had a baby? Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women decide what treatment is best for them”
Brooke Shields hits back at Tom Cruise after he criticised the actress for taking drugs to treat postnatal depression
“We publish classics. I’m afraid this one does not make it”
Alessandro Gallenzi, of Hesperus Press, on his decision not to publish Saddam Hussein’s new novel, Get out of here, curse you!
“It’s a devastating blow to Christianity in this country. You can post an acknowledgment of God as long as you say you don’t believe in it”
Roy S. Moore, the former Chief Justice of Alabama, after the US Supreme Court ruled that displays of the Ten Commandments on government property are permitted only if their purpose is secular