“... its 395 articles were taken word for word from the Government of India Act passed by the Baldwin cabinet in 1935. But the most important segment of the umbilical cord attaching the Congress regime of the post-independence years to the arrangements of the Raj was the least conspicuous. A mere six articles out of nearly four hundred dealt with elections, but ...”

“... offices, restaurants and residential spaces. The Shard is an Umbrian hill town hidden inside a cabinet of mirrors. I swam​ in the evening at the golden hour. There were soft barriers and checkpoints at every stage of my ascent. You come off the street, with its viral democracy, fumes from stalled buses, and into the otherness of uniformed challenge that ...”

“... behind everything worthwhile I have ever managed to accomplish.’ After forty years spent in the shadow of ‘isms’ – called now ‘Communism’ or ‘Marxism’, then ‘socialism with a human face’ or realny socialismus – he acknowledges in himself ‘that traditional quality of the bourgeoisie, especially in the era of liberalism, which is the ...”

“... Journal of Medical Genetics in 1992, has published a book aimed at a wider audience, called A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, which includes, among chapters on spontaneous human combustion and maternal impressions, a section about Crachami, a lightly rewritten version of his earlier article.*More curiously, Christine Borland, one of the artists ...”

“... through The Biographer’s Tale (2000), a book which seems to take place entirely in a filing cabinet (don’t worry, there are also sadistic pictures). If you told me she had a lost novel about paperweights, I would believe you. And I would read that too.Byatt died last November, at the age of 87. That is a mellow span and a proper hour. I am not sure if ...”

“... struggle for the soul of the body politic. Nothing became more frightening than the idea that the shadow play might be the new reality. So the things that didn’t matter became all that mattered. And British politics went down the rabbit hole.But although the arc of Powell’s career shows what a mess the politics of timeless moments can make of the politics ...”

“... by investing them with torrid symbolic values. The severity of those negotiations could in turn shadow the prospect for co-operation on other matters. History, being sloppy, will probably not allow anything nearly so neat as a three-bloc world. But the centrifugal forces identified by Dornbusch and others could certainly produce a more fragmented and less ...”

“... a virtual coup ratified by a Parliament whose nerve had snapped, France dominated by the shadow of le Général as it had been before by that of le Maréchal. The part of the young de Gaulle was played by François Mitterrand, who denounced de Gaulle’s coup at the outset. As a young résistant, Mitterrand had once looked up to de Gaulle much as de ...”

“... diverted vast quantities of state spending into Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s: he was the shadow or actual secretary of state for Scotland from 1961 until 1976. In the 1980s, Labour-run Scottish councils followed the Greater London Council in supporting community groups, unemployed workers and even the Palestine Liberation Organisation. But not much ...”

“... and civil service of the Federal Republic had served the Nazis, as had some politicians of sub-cabinet and even cabinet rank.) And, he suggests, Germany might have been different had its leaders been able, for example, to honour rather than ignore or despise the memory of the 1944 Stauffenberg plot, in which aristocratic ...”

“... by Palantir – facilitated a meeting between Karp and John Manzoni, permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office. In subsequent correspondence with the department, Sawers hailed the benefits of Palantir’s ‘unique software’. A year later the Cabinet Office gave Palantir a £27 million contract.The Covid pandemic ...”

“... well take a different stance. Conservative ministers still want a sale and Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow minister for universities, indicated at last year’s party conference that he had been ‘pressing’ Cable to crack on, even while admitting that it might turn out Cable had made the right call. When Labour last took a line in public, in 2013, its ...”

“... Oxford Union, of the birch and stocks; Chris Huhne, later energy secretary in David Cameron’s cabinet; Jeremy Hunt, the current health secretary. Johnson liked teaching and had a taste for the rough and tumble. His great day was not as a young man who worried about apartheid, or a feisty libertarian outnumbered by big French Stalinists in bleus de ...”

“... or poverty or unemployment. Even by the standard of unworldly poets, he is like one of those cabinet ministers who doesn’t know the price of milk. To some extent, this is a misapprehension. An early book of his, the so-called Book of Hours, has sections ‘On Monastic Life’, ‘On Pilgrimage’ and ‘On Poverty and Death’. A slightly hallowed ...”

“... Instead, there will be a period of power-sharing in which the ANC will sit in a cabinet alongside the party responsible for apartheid. More broadly, it is inconceivable that any government, no matter what its political stripe, will be able to run South Africa without sharing power with white civil servants, policemen, generals and ...”