“... tried to chisel free of its moorings. Then got the hell out. Home. Past the squatted shell of the Black Bull with its ‘No Evictions’ banner, through the Blank Generation extras waiting for nothing in the boarded-up shopping precinct, ducking into Muggers’ Alley alongside the decommissioned post office. To my Mid-Victorian terrace, an enclave of class ...”

“... There is a triptych of photographic portraits by François Lagarde in which Gysin merges into the black-hatted Burroughs; a composite with no dominant sitter. ‘La combinaison de leurs deux personnalités engendre une troisième entité,’ the catalogue tells us. For most of his career, Gysin favoured status exhibitions over percentage-harvesting agents and ...”

“... could share a common enemy. For much of the 20th century, the struggles against communism and black progress were close to indistinguishable. In the late 1930s, local law enforcement waged war on the Alabama Communist Party and the 12,000 black members of the Sharecroppers Union; in the 1970s, right-wing US politicians ...”

“... sort of art-historical Humbert Humbert with traces of Clive Linley, the self-obsessed composer in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam. He also has an Irish Catholic background replete with sodomitical priests and echoes of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This upbringing has made him unable to separate a love of art from sexual desire. He is on the search for a ...”

“... fixed positions, and whose skill, together with that of Lord Soames, the Governor, substituted a black Marxist government for a white minority regime – a solution in the tradition of Harold Macmillan’s ‘Wind of Change’ speech of 1960, which charted our withdrawal from Africa. Carrington was certainly the casualty of the Falklands War, although if ...”

“... engineer Zabilin’s daughter, Masha’), with Lenin depicted as an all-comprehending, all-wise black man. The play’s furious denunciation of ‘counter-revolutionary Whites’ was interpreted in socialist Zimbabwe as an early reference to Ian Smith and the work as a whole commended for showing ‘the importance of the ...”

“... has a hero it is Sir John Maud, the British high commissioner who advised in 1960 that since a black government must come to power one day, Britain must ‘keep faith’ with the black majority, while at the same time not antagonising the National Party government to no good purpose: we must, he said, walk a tightrope ...”

“... mother until the war ended in 1945. ‘My grandmother … was an old woman, squat, fierce and black-clad like the granny in the Giles cartoons in the Sunday Express,’ Carter wrote in an essay published in 1976. ‘I think I became the child she had been, in a sense, for the first five years of my life … tough, arrogant and pragmatic.’ Carter never ...”

“... effused one settler, ‘has ever left me with the impression of being a “whiter” man.’ Ian Smith’s Selous Scouts sustained his legend. Tidrick, however, can show that this model Rugbcian lied in order to promote the cause of white settlement and empire. In 1889 he stated, with bald falsehood, in the London press, that the high plateau of ...”

“... of Algerians or Turks or Jews. Zhirinovsky would rather subordinate other races. (Confronted by a black American reporter at one of his pre-election press conferences, Zhirinovsky told him: ‘Blacks are my second favourite people after the Balts. Come here, work, we will look after you.’) He has no desire to cleanse ethnicities from Russia, but rather to ...”

“... 10 Blackheath Park, designed by Patrick Gwynne, is an outré, glamorous house, with a fetishistic black slate and black-tinted glass exterior, an imposing symmetrical plan and ostentatiously synthetic materials within – the walls are lined with ‘plastic cloth’, a material, as Francisco Sutherland notes, usually used ...”

“... and inverted pentangles; Imperial Tokay, Hoyo de Monterrey cigars and giant spiders; a menacing black servant with eyes glowing like coals; a naked young woman supine on a stone altar, breasts heaving, knife raised over her throat. But only a minority of his novels involve devil-worship; Baker’s title ties together the thing that brought in the money with ...”

“... the character has been fleshed out in novels, as-told-to memoirs and wistful outsider essays. Black Bill, who appears in the Country Life journalist Ian Niall’s Poacher’s Handbook (1950), is a perfect specimen. He has a black, tousled beard and an over-large jacket and can charm ...”

“... that rise from vitiated air were palpable to the sight we should see them lowering in a dense black cloud … and rolling slowly on to corrupt the better portion of a town’ (Dombey and Son, 1848). Soon those particles would be so visible, so septum-grating that the occupants of the high-bourgeois palaces of Tyburnia and of the Ladbroke, Grosvenor and ...”

“... and removed his quotation from ‘the sex-and-violence literature’ of James Hadley Chase and Ian Fleming: he substituted writing of his own, not guying these offensive writers, but carefully imitating them, in pastiches which few recognised to be imitation – since Hoggart’s point was, partly, that such writers have power and skill. Hoggart is an ...”