“... orders. A subway worker told the New York Times that he felt more sacrificial than essential.On 25 May, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, Floyd asphyxiated while being pressed into the road under the weight of law enforcement. His dying was watched by passers-by and recorded on mobile phones. Those of us who weren’t present are secondary ...”

“... from February to November 1533; de Selve, whose mission, if any, is obscure, from about March to May.Behind the two personages and the table between them is a heavy green curtain, and they and the table are standing on a floor elegantly coloured and patterned in squares and circles enclosed in a continuous decorative band; it looks like a mosaic but has none ...”

“... having been ‘trained outside the mystic circle of metropolitan culture wherein alone a young man may hope to acquire the distinguished manner’. But he never seemed to have much concern for other forms of outsiderdom, and his sexual and racial identity was decidedly normative (Strachey and many of his Cambridge contemporaries were homosexual, and his ...”

“... However, the strain of her inflexible attitude, with its insistence that her way is the only way, may well be telling. Sometimes the mind blots out reality and compensates by believing only what it wants to. Perhaps it was not just a wilful desire to misinform that led Mrs Thatcher to insist, in a confrontation with myself on Nationwide in ...”

“... location, probably in one of the many compounds owned by the Egyptian armed forces. At the end of May, Joe Biden announced a framework for an agreement on what he described as an ‘Israeli ceasefire proposal’, which was immediately rejected by Israel. According to the plan, a ceasefire would be declared and Israeli forces would begin to withdraw from ...”

“... and cathedral cloisters, but in 1685, when Philadelphia died, it was still common. Her husband may have wished to record his terrible loss in the dignity of an ancient language, but there was little point in listing the merits of Lady Mary if few other ladies, very few of her servants and fewer still among the poor could read about them. Two centuries ...”

“... the scaling laws that predict this are accurate over many orders of magnitude.’ The ‘laws’ may of course break down – they are empirical generalisations, not laws of physics – but they are worth taking seriously because ‘arbitrary amounts of money’ are indeed being shelled out on the infrastructure of AI. In August, researchers for Morgan ...”

“... C60. This is a measure of activity rather than importance, but no matter how original a paper may be, it cannot change the shape of science unless it is well-connected. The active surface of science is thin, like the layer of living tissue below the bark of a tree. It is supported by the wood of old ideas (all wood is, strictly speaking, dead). As time ...”

“... joyful woman driver Insouciant at the wheel of a Detroit-built Hudson, her glance Thrown devil-may-caringly through its rear window, Male passenger watching her high heel pushing eagerly Up away into the ...”

“... of a present spume spattered up the sands? Mind where you pick your mussels and kina, these tides may secrete indigenous toxins. Deadly to the text. Shall I copy it ...”

“... In New York City I wasn’t told That mid-May nights in Vermont can be cold. Outside, our brook, short of sun And wind, barely keeps up a run, Just jogs and limps so as not to freeze; Flexing her black tender knees, The mare between the moon and the gate Crops fiercely as if she couldn’t wait For the calories to turn to heating, And is blindly warming herself by eating; Overhead, chipmunks shiver in rows, Or heaps, or whatever racial pose Chipmunks adopt; if there were lights, The woods would be circus-crammed with sights – Hedgehogs on inchmeal expeditions, Toads in cool conjugal positions, Somewhere the bug that bit me lying Jubilant with my blood and dying, Jays, if you can imagine it, keeping Quiet, drops from bathers creeping Back to huddle inside the lake, And in the corridors where the snake Exerts his snakiness unmolested The hiss and wriggle being rested ...”

“... don’t even know the date of your birthday.Instead of cycling, we could take a stroll:The clouds may look threatening but any boomsWill be fighter jets on training runsAnd if it rains we’ll take shelter in the woods.First let me take you round the orchard.See where the bark has been stripped from the pear?You thought I was teasing about the muntjacBut I ...”

“... for the larger world of things it won’t be easy to love. Helen I think will master it, though I may not. She has practised a long time learning to see. I have devoted myself to affirmation, when I should have kept my eyes on the ...”

“... good does it do you To complain, Charles? The fates shuffling your cards Are old and blind. You may as well look for them In every nursing home in Tennessee. One day your car breaks down Outside some dead mill town With a couple smokestacks in the rain, And you trudge past the home With your gasoline can in hand Almost brushing against the grey bricks Just ...”

“... a bloody deed. Oh yes, the hither-thither razor zips from crown to culet! Quite so. But what may be said of the bullet, which has struck the windowframe, just here? What of the extra glass, and the shorn-off fire iron? The facts, now, just the facts. We have a body, and a murderer. Who, then, was our third drinker? Who is our guest, who smokes ...”