I never thought my first experience of Zumba would be at the Lambeth Conference

Philip North, Bishop of Burnley, Twitter, 28 July

So, you [the Archbishop of Canterbury] and your other religious pals got together at the Lambeth Conference and the main takeaway seems to be that gay sex is a sin. It was a sin in 1998 and you just wanted to make clear in 2022 that no one in your finely frocked gang has moved on from that

Sandi Toksvig in an open letter published on social media, 5 August

I would go so far as to say, and it might be a bit of a stretch, that there is such a thing as Catholic prose and Protestant prose. If you just want to go into Irish literature, Joyce writes Catholic prose — it’s stained-glass windows, it’s great gaudy effects — and then Beckett comes along and writes a very Church of Ireland, Protestant prose, very austere and beautiful and stripped back. Where to find the balance between those is one of the things I’m writing towards, I think

Kevin Barry, author of Night Boat to Tangier, on Bookclub, Radio 4, 7 August

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