“... his belief in socialism and a hostility to the EU that began long before Brexit had a name. In 2019, when he stood down, his would-be successor was beaten by a Conservative in Boris Johnson’s get-Brexit-done landslide. A picture from the night shows Johnson pounding the air with his fists and gurning in triumph at the Blyth result, the first time Labour ...”

“... the US, where ‘free speech’ has, on the right, been increasingly evacuated of principle. In January, the presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis inaugurated his second term as governor of ‘the free state of Florida’ by declaring, ‘We will never surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die.’ His project to restore freedom to his state ...”

“... the palace grounds. ‘The emperor collected their droppings every Sunday afternoon between January 2009 and December 2013,’ the Kyodo news agency reported, ‘and examined plant seeds contained in them through a microscope.’The imperial family enjoy almost none of the perks of royalty: this is the greatest contrast with the British royal ...”

“... the last dot. When I reached Schiff’s final editorial note (‘John Updike died in hospice on 27 January, in Danvers, Massachusetts’), I got a thump in my chest, an echo of the one I felt when the news of his death first hit the wires. But then I had grown up reading the guy.If Updike​ has fallen out of fashion, it’s partly because the vision of ...”

“... Then the book came out, and I was giving talks about it all over the place from its publication in January 2010 through the spring and summer, and there was this mysterious lack of rage. People seemed numb and incredulous but not yet angry. In July 2010 I was in Galway for the arts festival, giving a talk in a room where, I later learned, a former taoiseach ...”

“... they were unable to take breaks. Memos between managers at Southmead Hospital in Bristol in early January, leaked to the local press, warned that beds were ‘104 per cent full’: ‘Patients are admitted to any available bed,’ the hospital’s clinical director wrote. ‘Speciality patients are scattered.’ At that point, with all overflow beds ...”

“... code of ethics (don’t laugh) for multiple expenses abuses. Having been re-elected unopposed in 2019 and 2023, Infantino has just announced his intention to stand again. His victory seems a formality – both CAF, the Confederation of African Football, and Conmebol, South America’s governing body, have already backed him. Last year he was paid more than ...”

“... the way she met Blücher, a non-Jewish former Spartacist and sex-club bouncer, whom she married in January 1940. In September 1939, Blücher and Benjamin were interned together at Nevers, though Blücher was released early, only to be interned again a few months later. This time the order included women. On 15 May 1940 Arendt showed up at the Vélodrome ...”

“... the president is only being provocative.‘The first time [Trump said he wanted Greenland], in 2019, people were upset. They said: “Hey, we’re not for sale.” But then it kind of blew over quickly. This time it definitely made more of an impact. We try to stay out of it, but people ask us what we think … We want what’s best for Greenland. I want ...”

“... The elections​ due to be held on 24 June, brought forward abruptly from the end of 2019 by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, come after a period of repression and fear that represents the most serious rupture in the history of the Turkish republic. In the last two years more than 100,000 people have been detained, and tens of thousands are waiting for their lives to be upended by a knock on the door, or the publication of a new emergency decree ...”

“... him to respond to this allegation, but he preferred not to. The Grenfell Action Group blog from January 2016. In a blog posting in November 2016, the action group’s long history of accusations against the council and the TMO came to a head. ‘It is a truly terrifying thought,’ the blog said, ‘but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a ...”