“... rediscovery of his unfinished epic The Civil War, edited by Allan Pritchard in 1973. What pleases David Trotter is the conception of Cowley as a poet of cultural crisis, of the ‘intellectual revolution’ of the 17th century. Three leading ideas help him to take this view. The first is Eliot’s hypothesis of a 17th-century dissociation of sensibility, here ...”

“... party conference, for election to the Árd Chomhairle – the Party’s national executive. If the peace process is to be resurrected with any realistic chance of success, those engaged in negotiations with the Republican movement need to make a better effort to understand the way Republicans think and work (know your enemy: it is a basic principle). Nor is ...”

“... came naturally to Boswell, less naturally but effectively in the sentences of Adam Smith and David Hume, but at the cost of the reservation of the Scottish tongue for casual, domestic or low-life use. Yet, as Daiches reminds us, with an exceptionally happy choice of quotations, the literary endeavours of the upper class were accompanied by a genuine ...”

“... accepted Boeing’s tender for a massive new cargo aircraft for the United States Air Force, David Lodge would not have been able to write Paradise News. Instead, however, Lockheed got the contract, and Boeing were left with a redundant set of blueprints for the biggest furniture van never built. To save all that development money going to waste, they ...”

“... his completion of two terms of office as popular at the end as at the beginning, with a record of peace and prosperity, a balanced budget for two years running, and a long succession of crises deftly and coolly managed, looks scarcely accidental. The author of this two-volume life, based on prodigious familiarity with the archives and an admirably assured and ...”

“... electricity and so on. All with the support of the US, whose President called Sharon a ‘man of peace’ during the worst assaults of last March and April. Sharon’s purpose went far beyond ‘rooting out terror’: his soldiers destroyed every computer and carried off files and hard drives from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Ministries of ...”

“... lives. Operation Banner, the longest continuous deployment by the British army, did not secure peace any more than its counterinsurgency campaigns before and since. Far from it. Intelligence played a part, as Thomas Leahy convincingly sets out, but a far from decisive one. The British public, only intermittently aroused by dramatic events such as Bloody ...”

“... for victory in the First World War. It remained one through all the upheavals of the subsequent peace, because the British political class had the wit to see that this was the only way to keep the system afloat. As early as 1919, in spite of all the industrial strife of the period, a new form of political activity was growing up, as yet only half ...”

“... a sense of opportunity: all these qualities which flowered in wartime and are equally necessary in peace seem rather lost sight of. So it comes as no surprise to discover that, despite the general improvement which has taken place since the 1900s, commerce and trade where these qualities are presumably even more important – are still under-represented. The ...”

“... no longer be held, it moved to an all-out war footing. For now the war is all there is, and the peace will have to take care of itself.We don’t know yet whether the British government will have to follow the French, who had to follow the Spanish, who had to follow the Italians, down the road to a total shutdown of major cities. Libertarians inside the ...”

“... French crown in the gutter and placed it on his head; the same man who protested his devotion to peace could also admit, ‘I wanted to rule the world.’ After realising he could not send an invasion fleet across the Channel, and seeing his navy destroyed at Trafalgar in 1805, Napoleon became determined to ruin Britain’s economy by closing the Continent ...”

“... cross the freeway outside my motel. There was something almost magical about the time, money and peace of mind it saved me. I know Uber has a very mixed reputation and some people told me I should be using Lyft, which treats its drivers better. Maybe I should have thought harder about that. But my Uber experience was so spectacularly efficient that I ...”

“... herbal remedies instead. When the bears at Tam Dao have lived the remainder of their lives in peace, the facility will close. No one doubts that during those years the god of large things will continue to wreak havoc in the world beyond the valley. Sanctuaries, evidently, are not the solution to the wholesale destruction of natural habitats and the ...”

“... three years before, to which Brecht had responded sufficiently ambiguously to win the Stalin Peace Prize. He died on 14 August, not knowing that Poznan would prove a dress rehearsal for the Hungarian Uprising in October, which itself took place within a month of the death rattle of that imperial mission of which Kipling was the bard, on the banks of the ...”

“... in 1882. Some countries tried to resist financial imperialism with diplomacy. At the 1907 Hague Peace Conference, Argentina succeeded in limiting the right of foreign powers to use force to recover debts. But European countries continued their surreptitious power grabs, which were justified on both commercial and imperialist grounds. Frank Nixon, a British ...”