“... attacks – whether or not it was encouraged by Hamas leaders – is clearly contrary to the laws of war and the demands of human rights. There have been accusations that pro-Palestinian groups and the Western feminists Netanyahu complained about have doubted the stories of rape, asking for proof in a way they would not have if the perpetrators had ...”

“... Aron’s immediate family, notes: ‘What we have here is a tiny tribe with strict, even pitiless laws ... a violent and repressed civilisation.’ It occurs to Aron that all sign systems are arbitrary, that they are nothing more than forms of magic, and that for safety one simply has to know the rules of grammar of any given discourse, though this is a ...”

“... his account of English constitutional history. But in telling the story of the English monarchy, David Starkey found no occasion even to mention Cromwell’s name.* Now, with the publication of Robert Hutchinson’s biography of Cromwell, it is as if Beria has come back to haunt us, requiring a further revision of the Encyclopedia. And the analogy is not so ...”

“... by nominal Christians who made a great show of piety in their writing.‘Solomon, the Son of David, King of Israel, hath said that the beginning of our Key is to fear God, to adore Him, to honour Him with contrition of heart, to invoke Him in all matters which we wish to undertake, and to operate with very great devotion, for thus God will lead us in the ...”

“... after the latest pounding of Gaza. An easy technical dodge can make a dead letter of laws. The publication of the cables follows the embargo protocol used by press officers when passing news releases to journalists. So the Guardian already has all the cables, and when faced with the threat of being injuncted by the government to stop publication ...”

“... remain unidentified? The US Supreme Court in 1972 decided that the First Amendment prohibition on laws abridging the freedom of speech or of the press did not make the preservation of sources’ anonymity a constitutional right capable of defeating a grand jury subpoena. But they left it open to states to enact legislation protecting ...”

“... was twitted that all his warnings in the 1840s about the dire effects of repealing the Corn Laws had finally been proved right, he responded wearily that it was all very well to quote ‘rusty phrases of mine forty years ago’, but the issue was settled. Free trade and cheap food were here to stay. Any revival of protection was politically ...”

“... women entered their occupation as ‘domestic slave’ in a co-ordinated protest against the laws which denied them full civil and political rights. That same year Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the militant Women’s Social and Political Union, launched an even more audacious attempt at disruption. Thousands of suffragettes, following her lead, refused ...”

“... Naturally I knew it was ridiculous to deprive half the people of the country of any voice in the laws they had to live under, merely on account of a trifling difference in sex, but I did not think anything I could do about it was likely to be helpful.’ That account was written in 1957. At the time of the war, she displayed a grossly romantic view of what ...”

“... been interpreted as a tribute to the stern impartiality with which the Saudis administer Allah’s Laws. Princesses, just like surgeons and their wives, must obey the Sharia. Indeed, their privileged positions as members of the ruling house makes exemplary punishment all the more necessary. The most damaging insinuation in the film, that the Princess might not ...”

“... in history. The most zealous of the North’s Irish language campaigners reach back to the Penal Laws of the 17th and 18th centuries, introduced by the British in an attempt to suppress all aspects of Irish culture and identity. The language is afforded some protection under the European Convention on Human Rights, which demands ‘respect, understanding and ...”

“... John Donne, and was seized upon by a readership anxious to stress the degeneracy of their own age. David Jones, an autochthonous Welsh, rather than Anglo-American, modernist of Poundian tendencies, offers another poet’s version of Johnson’s aperçu in his preface to the Anathemata (1952), and claims the Metaphysicals for Wales at the same time. Jones is ...”

“... people saw in the ‘Yes’ campaign. Instead, they were trying to get things back to normal.When David Cameron emerged from 10 Downing Street after the referendum to announce a policy of ‘English votes for English laws’, the scales tipped. One of Bennie et al’s interviewees recalls that Cameron ‘thought Scotland ...”

“... but it would be more accurate to describe him as the ‘evil genius’ of his brother-in-law David Séchard, printer, inventor, mere technician and thus true man of the 19th century, who pays dearly for being over-impressed by Lucien’s intellectuality. ‘His fatal, innocent error is to suppose that Lucien’s lofty gift is superior to his modst ...”

“... her litany stated, Mirror of Justice, Cause of Our Joy, Spiritual Vessel, Mystical Rose, Tower of David, House of Gold, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven and Morning Star. Not a woman I liked, on the whole. She was the improbability at the heart of spiritual life; a paradox, unpollinated but fruitful, above nature yet also against nature. She could have ...”