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“... Second World War. This occurred at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux, a small port some hundred miles south-west of Dunkirk. It is often said that the French, acting unilaterally, gave up fighting, and, carrying white flags, marched in front of the 51st Highland Division, thereby preventing them from firing at the Germans. Warner explains the extraordinary confusion of ...”

“... of himself sits oddly with a rather stiffly elevated prose style – a strange combination of Anthony Powell and the ‘aforesaid’ and ‘as has been noted’ of the legal brief – and if one were to be searching for a clue to the author’s true self-valuation, one might start by looking at his syntax rather than at any of his stated sins. A further ...”

“... Guinea Street by the Avon was a reference to the ‘Guinea trade’ in human beings along the West African coast. In November 1746, a Captain Eaton promised a guinea to readers of the Bristol Journal who assisted in the capture of the escaped ‘negro Mingo’, whom he had owned for eight years; in March 1757 a guinea was offered in the Journal for the ...”

“... that governments, too, may be guilty of terrorism. There are contributors to Terrorism: How the West can win who are able to match the sanity of Wilkinson and Townshend. Edwin Meese III sees the danger of over-reaction, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan stresses the importance of governments observing the law – ‘lest terrorists win by inducing a kind of ...”

“... of Oakeshott’s view that rationalism has had a disastrous impact on political life in the West. For Oakeshott, the rationalist is preoccupied with certainty. Custom and prejudice and any other authority are all his enemies. His unaided reason will infallibly tell him what is right. The rationalist sees himself as an engineer, and abstraction, not ...”

“... inherited the college fellowship of his tutor, Robert Hall, taught (inter alios) the undergraduate Anthony Wedgwood Benn, and entered Parliament in 1950 as MP for South Gloucester. It was a swashbuckling rise by a young man full of glamour. ‘I am more fond and proud of that young man than I can put into words,’ recorded Dalton, who had been in love with ...”

“... and so to the extent that he is successful we hear what he hears. But then what do we hear in Anthony Kerrigan’s Ficciones (1962), which has translations by Kerrigan himself, Alastair Reid, Anthony Bonner, Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd? Or in Donald Yates and James Irby’s Labyrinths (1962), with translations mainly ...”

“... via printed grammars and dictionaries, men like William Carey in India and Heinrich Schon in West Africa effectively influenced which colonial peoples and cultures became more influential. Moreover, in the process of being reduced to order by translators, clerks and printers, indigenous languages were filtered through European thought-patterns, becoming ...”

“... pushes the water higher on the opposite side of the Earth.’ While the collapse of glaciers in West Antarctica would cause an average rise in global sea levels of about ten feet, New York coastlines would see a rise of 13 feet, which is well above what any coastal city is prepared to absorb. For Pacific islanders in places like Kiribati and the Marshall ...”

“... Britain’s position in the Middle East. The chief casualty was his browbeaten Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, who was trying to conduct an honourable retreat, but found himself opposed at every turn and accused of defeatism. Churchill might have expended his remaining energies in a more profitable cause. In Gilbert’s biography, no such issues are ...”

“... by far the most popular whipping-boy, but with minority lobbies also fingering Richard Crossman, Anthony Howard and all the other post-Sixties editors. There is little disagreement, however, about when the glory days began. The New Statesman whose past is so ubiquitously pressed into service for rival versions of its future is the magazine whose identity was ...”

“... for something less than full sovereignty; to give Russia the cold shoulder, i.e. to side with the West in the Cold War; and to make peace with Israel, i.e. to lead the way to a comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nasser’s aims were very different. He sought to end the decades-long British military presence in Egypt; to build a powerful ...”

“... in the Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) decided to spill the beans. In early November, Chief Anthony Ani, Abacha’s long-serving Minister of Finance, revealed that Ismaila Gwarzo, Abacha’s national security adviser, withdrew a total of 1.331 billion dollars from the Central Bank of Nigeria over a period of 18 months. A few days later, we were told ...”

“... had largely been won, and so anti-slavery campaigners could attack the economic argument that West Indian plantations were essential to the success of the British Empire. In America, by contrast, slavery was a political and social problem. What would happen if more than half a million slaves were suddenly freed? The received wisdom of many observers in ...”

“... and French counterparts about the American offer of Marshall Aid; Europe was divided, east and west; and the seven surviving major Nazi war criminals who had been tried and condemned by the victorious allies at Nuremberg were moved, the subject of a special four-power agreement, into Spandau Prison in what was to become ...”