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“... in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, for example, were cleaned up for three years or more after Christopher Black turned Queen’s evidence and 38 people were arrested. Almost all had their convictions quashed on appeal, but the case disposed of several leading Provos for a number of years. A number of them have become re-involved and one is now a ...”

“... This is one of Christopher Black’s verdicts on the work of the Roman Inquisition: The human casualties among major thinkers were fewer than might have been expected; Bruno might have been saved, Galileo could have suffered worse; Campanella endured lengthy imprisonment; Giannone and Crudeli were partly just unlucky ...”

“... to stop, or enter the negative space of the minus numbers – and he’s not yet ready to play the Christopher Columbus of black-hole exploration. Top is fine, thanks. Divinely appointed to the highest ranks, however, and the Muse’s most trusted amanuensis, he knows to his personal cost that eminence is no doddle. With T ...”

“... elegiac fondness for the Prussian past. Pinning down what Fontane meant takes us to the heart of Christopher Clark’s lively and thoughtful book. His clear-eyed account hinges on the idea that the essence of the Prussian tradition was the absence of tradition. It is not hard to see how that quality might have impressed a 19th-century observer like ...”

“... school I open it, wind it up, Lift the half-human shapely heavy arm; The steel needle rides the black vibrant disc, Bearing down, just not tearing, on the gloss. From the metallic hissing contact – music: Music uncontrollable, disproportionate, Too loud – too sweet as well, the song swells out On augmented reverberating strings, Cloying, disturbing, as ...”

“... on the rail.     Dapple and white the horses are; perfect they are;Sneezing to clear their cool black muzzles.    He mounts.    The chariot’s basket dips.  The whipFires in between the horses’ ears.And as in dreams, or at Cape Kennedy, they rise,Slowly it seems, their chests like royals, yetBehind them in a double plume the sand curls up,Is ...”

“... readers were not deluded). The abolitionists, McQuirk declared, had made of the West Indies ‘a black Ireland’ – with a population which was ‘free’ in name but degraded and destitute in condition. Not that the negroes, any more than the Irish, resented their degradation, so long as they had vegetables (potatoes or pumpkins) to keep the walls of ...”

“... any consideration of human rights. The story of the cave-in is instructive. In March 1994, Warren Christopher paid his first visit to China as Secretary of State. A few days before his arrival, the authorities arrested Wei Jingsheng, the highest-ranking Party member to have become a dissident, and one of the founders of the ‘Democracy Wall’ movement. No ...”

“... a portrait of Glazebrook, he chose to represent him with Hollis’s 1970 catalogue in his lap. Christopher Wilson’s excellent Richard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel, the final book from Hyphen Press, is not only a detailed analysis of the work of Hollis, with whom Wilson collaborated from 1999 to 2004, but a story of aesthetic and social change as ...”

“... tortured and burned – until you reach the river Bleak.    Squeeze, if you can,    over the Black Bridge, then park and pay – assuming this isn’t the week of the Billycock Fair, or Boiled Egg Day,    when they elect the Town Fool.    From here, it’s a short step to the Bailiwick Hall Museum and Arts Centre. As you enter, ignore the display ...”

“... rear of the New Central Hotel in Blackpool. The police identified the body as that of 17-year-old Christopher Hartley. A minute or two went by before you began to wonder how they’d managed it. Presumably from fingerprints: police sources indicated that Christopher had a criminal record, though they didn’t want to make ...”

“... BIBLE and drow all so sing himms in a good Vois with pa: Old Cobbit do the Swize box butins Swoll black wave Like a Sea Edis wisel pip in the parler Throgh a Nith of dowt and Sorew That a frend in JESUS so on and pa sade on to us Ye i have a Sine to covert Scock Land and the boy Alf to come to for his ANGEL bidith and Ma weep when To morow. * Scock Land it ...”

“... time to denounce publicly those journalists who had dared to print the name of the head of MI6, Christopher Curwen. The heads of the CIA and the KGB, William Casey and Victor Chebrikov, are of course public figures. But that, as Mr Ingham would say, is not the point. What the point is remains obscure. In 1932 the novelist Compton Mackenzie was tried for a ...”

“... Who they were and what they did is very much Campbell’s concern, in particular the émigré black writers Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes. Racism is what drove them across the Atlantic. In explaining his decision to leave New York, Baldwin wrote of ‘a violent, anarchic, hostility-breeding’ culture, in comparison with which Paris ...”

“... of workers were drawn. Another view claims significance for the different civic experiences of black Britons by comparison with those of immigrant workers in most Western European countries (e.g. access to the franchise), although it is worth pointing out that in the Netherlands settlers from former colonies have been more favourably received than the ...”