Ian McEwan: "A gang of angry old men, irritable even in victory, are shaping the future of the country against the inclinations of its youth."

“I have divorced him. If a man can divorce his wife that way, why can’t a woman? Don’t I have the same right? Am I less human than he is?”

President Xi’s “Belt and Road initiative” is a multi-billion dollar infrastructure campaign that looks set to transform large swaths of Asia and the world beyond.

Gordon Brown: "There will soon be more people in poverty in May’s Britain – 15.7 million citizens – than ever there were in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain."

Ransomware has already caused hospitals across England to divert emergency patients – but what is it, how does it spread and why is this happening in this first place?

"It was unquestionably the worst moment of my life yet I could see very clearly. I felt a kind of sense of calm."

If in need of some Hunger Games-style schadenfreude check out the iPad showing the hoi polloi running gauntlets over at the main terminal.

“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes” goes the saying. Cremation and burial fees are the ultimate “death tax” in that – barring a small number of cases – they are effectively an unavoidable cost.

“James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

From 'alternative facts' to ‘£350m for the NHS’, here are 10 classic examples of post truth, past and present.

A screen grab of an instant message conversation circulated by one doctor says: “So our hospital is down … We got a message saying your computers are now under their control and pay a certain amount of money. And now everything is gone.”

"I still can’t quite believe I’m saying this, that I’m describing this event as real, because it seems more like the final aching spasms of a 48-hour fever dream that leads immediately after towards death – Iain Duncan Smith went on Good Morning Britain and rapped Eminem in a bid to mock Diane Abbott."

"We have the chance to restore our role as a world leader, to defuse global tensions rather than escalate them, and to put human rights and the environment back at the heart of our foreign policy. In short, as Cook put it, the chance “to make Britain once again a force for good in the world”. That was his mission 20 years ago for Labour and for Britain. It is not too late to do his legacy proud."

"A bit rich of the Tories to talk about 'back to the 1970s' when their flagship pledges currently include grammar schools and ripping foxes apart."

Those in the constituency who voted remain – and are motivated by Brexit – are not necessarily backing Labour.

"Why are so many 'progressives' so keen to help her by instead of focusing on all the negatives of a future May government, directing their anger at Jeremy Corbyn?"