“... of the Damned; the BBC’s Dead of Night series and its M.R. James Christmas ghost stories; Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital. In a way, Young is writing a new history of British film and television, an alternative to the more respectable version that has tended to focus on Loach and Leigh, Powell and Pressburger, Lean and ...”

“... 56,000 in 2020. The young left: Sheena and Alex for Suffolk. The old and not so old died: Uncle Lindsay in his forties and Auntie Jean before she was sixty. (At her funeral in 1970, in the last days of an old tradition, the men went to the graveside while the women stayed behind in the house. I remember that, after we returned and the drinks came, the ...”

“... because of his war service), and then, through the patronage of Balliol’s Scottish master, A.D. Lindsay, was immediately appointed as an assistant lecturer in moral philosophy at Edinburgh. After two years, he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was to stay for the next 35 years. A photograph of the 26-year-old Gellner, three years into his ...”

“... it even when I was a part of it.16 March. One of the lowest moments this year was Tony Blair and Jack Straw misrepresenting the French and German position on Iraq in order to encourage xenophobia and get more support from the Murdoch papers.17 March. A bin Laden associate reported as being ‘quizzed’ by American agents in Pakistan. Were suspects ...”