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‘Dame Judi Dench has just signed on to play the egg timer’: the best quotes from the 2025 Baftas


David Tennant’s Trump jokes, Conclave’s Edward Berger on the crisis of democracy and Stephen Merchant on Boggle

On Conclave: “A hundred machinating schemers trying to decide between a conservative or progressive candidate, diversity or tradition. On the film industry’s obsession with recycling material: “I said to the producer of the Hungarian Office: where’s my bloody cheque mate? On the state of the world: “We live in a time of a crisis of democracy, and institutions usually used to bring us together are being used to pull us apart ... To end with a quote from Leonard Cohen, ‘There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.’”

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