“... limbs and torsos, an axe and a halberd.Killer’s Kiss made an immediate impression on James Harris, a freelance writer and producer. He got in touch with Kubrick; they decided to join forces and together looked to match a project with an investor. Eighty thousand dollars from Harris’s own funds and a $50,000 loan ...”

“... the Stones, Phil Spector – but also the Duchess of Windsor, Noël Coward, Peter Stringfellow, Malcolm Sargent, Beryl Bainbridge, John Birt, Jonathan Aitken, Edward Heath et al. This isn’t just a confetti of toe-curling names. Brown catches a moment when discrete segments of society were slowly coalescing into an entity called the Media. A living collage ...”

“... good grace but it’s hard when it was brought about by a campaign eloquently described by Robert Harris as ‘the most depressing, divisive, duplicitous political event of my lifetime’: words which, incidentally, were written before the announcement of the murder of Jo Cox, the defacement of London’s Polish Social and Cultural Association, and the ...”