“... him as a suicide risk. The prison officer, Christopher McAinsh, and mental health nurse, Brian Leitch, who carried out his reception risk assessment recorded some (but not all) of the information in these documents, and noted that William was ‘very nervous about his time in jail’. They put him on TTM, with checks every thirty minutes.Leitch was ...”

“... Canal to another journalist friend: ‘Five rows in front of me all in a row were Kissinger, Nelson Rockefeller, Ladybird, Ford, Mrs Carter and Mondale. Somehow these political stars all seem to be like dwarfs when you see them in the flesh. However, I had a wonderful suite at the Shoreham and everybody seemed to use Tanqueray in the Dry Martinis.’ He ...”

“... book published by the National Portrait Gallery to accompany the BBC series of the same name, Brian Harrison, the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, observes that we are hardly alone ‘in placing the great at the centre of our national myth’: If Lloyd George and Winston Churchill epitomise national resistance to Germany ...”

“... that there is always another greedy fathead waiting to be fleeced. Consider the awesome fate of Nelson Sakaguchi, an eminent financier at the Banco Noroeste in Brazil. Sakaguchi let himself be persuaded to lend many, many millions of his bank’s reserves for the new Abuja airport. Flown to a summit meeting in a London hotel, he was received by the director ...”

“... when she heard the news but I bundled her into a taxi and told her to hurry. I rang my friend Brian who runs an epidemiological unit mainly concerned with HIV/Aids. It’ll cost you, he said, but if she can get AZT and 3TC in the first 12 hours you can cut the Aids risk by 80 per cent. Brian has twice had to apply such ...”

“... find the same artfully capable background players on a Sinatra album, a Phil Spector 45 and a Brian Wilson pop suite, as well as anything from supper-club Soul to Exploitation soundtracks and misty Exotica. The Second World War had also worked a kind of happy miscegenation into America’s alienated micro-cultures: people from different backgrounds met in ...”

“... has become known, was now embarked on and is detailed lucidly, as are all stages of the affair, in Brian Cathcart’s book. Why the police performed so abysmally at this point has become a matter of debate: did they set out to fail in their investigation of the crime because of Lawrence’s colour or were they simply incompetents who would not have succeeded ...”