“... Significantly, perhaps, from Loach’s point of view, the film version, directed by Lindsay Anderson, lacks even that degree of belated acknowledgment, having just expended most of its remaining energy on the expressionist flourishes of a deathbed scene. Realism became social in Loach’s work by taking in as much as could reasonably be expected of the ...”

“... out. Oxford took the Robbins criticisms to heart and in 1964 set up a commission of inquiry under Oliver Franks. Franks took evidence in open session and was criticised for washing dirty linen in public. But in so doing he educated his electorate, and showed just how distinguished Oxford was. Some at least of his reforms were accepted, although to the day of ...”

“... discussed in Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (2019), co-written by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski and Toril Moi. Felski points out that ‘characters do not have to be deep, well rounded, psychologically complex, or unified’ to become both vital presences and universal common property: Hercule Poirot, Mary Poppins, R2-D2, ...”

“... the CIA’s clandestine officers were too timid. He preferred the type represented by his friend Oliver North. Over time, Casey’s position hardened into CIA dogma, which its agents, protected by secrecy from ever having their ignorance exposed, enforced in every way they could. The agency resolutely refused to help choose winners and losers among the ...”

“... at Heart is Lynch’s most violent film and his most image-obsessed, a quality that Tarantino and Oliver Stone would immediately rip off in Natural Born Killers, though neither would touch the sweet side of kitsch that Lynch embraced. He understood that what made Hollywood over the top – its clichés, its emotionalism, its moral polarisation – was also ...”

“... the place. (His distaste for George Steiner took something of the same form.) Incidentally, Perry Anderson’s general matrix of the ‘White’ intellectual emigration, which suggested that the radical exiles went to America while the conservative ones – with Gellner exempted – settled in England, understates the manner in which Berlin’s Washington ...”

“... introduced them properly, and they didn’t have titles anyway: they were just Carlos or Tina or Oliver or Thomas. One night in Ellingham Hall, a French guy called Jeremy came in with a sack of encrypted phones. Julian always seemed to have three phones on the go at any one time – the red phone was his personal one – and this latest batch was designed to ...”