“... been suggestions of a connection between Sarao’s trading and the wild market convulsions of 6 May 2010 that have become known as the ‘flash crash’. The DoJ alleges that between 11.17 a.m. and 1.40 p.m. (Chicago time) a fifth or more of all the orders to sell S&P 500 index futures were Sarao’s. It would be remarkable if a single trader, operating on ...”

“... states and citizens than they already enjoy. Valls is smart to signal his disapproval, even if he may not mean it. Unlike other Europeans, Michel Sapin, France’s finance minister, seems to think that Britain could discuss curbs on human movement as well as access to the single market, as it disengages from the EU. For member states this isn’t on the ...”

“... don’t especially like car crashes, exploding buildings and the overuse of assault weapons, you may want to stay away from the cinema for a while. Well, you could have started to stay away even before the pandemic, because it often seemed there was nothing else to see, whether the noise and violence involved superheroes or just special agents in suits. But ...”

“... Admiralty, it depicts him sitting on a bulldog and holding a battleship over the inscription, ‘May God defend the Right.’ One point on which most of these very diverse artists agreed was that the raw material was unpromising. The New Zealander David Low, who became Churchill’s favourite cartoonist, first met him in 1922 and sized him up with a ...”

“... Parliament warned that unless significant work is carried out swiftly, major, irreversible damage may be done to the Palace. Since then, things have deteriorated: 50 per cent of the Palace’s mechanical and electrical services are at high risk of failure by 2020. The report echoed the call made in 1828 by John Soane for ‘revision and speedy amendment’ to ...”

“... historical building, transporting it across the ocean and recreating it in an institution may seem anachronistic, even reckless. But the architectural ethos behind the house is conducive to such a process. Both Japanese and West Coast architects knew how to build resilience into their homes. Buildings like the Yokoi house were designed with the ...”

“... cinema. It is based on the first in the series, The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006), so we may be witnessing the beginning of a beautiful relationship. In spite of the obvious, the film isn’t really about detection. It is about survival and rescue. It’s also about our relation to the heroine, because she talks to the camera a lot. ‘Wouldn’t ...”

“... them. ‘Paralysed with shyness,’ Bennett writes, Mary-Kay ‘told him it didn’t matter (and may even have said that she didn’t matter). Tiresomely, this gilded fly persisted, still wanting her name. “Oh, skip it,” she snapped, whereupon the flunkey announced: “Mr Timothy Binyon and Miss Skippit.”’ The wish to be noticed and not noticed (and ...”

“... like this have led people like Elon Musk to think about where they source their nickel. In May, he met the president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, to discuss possible ‘partnerships’. He is interested because nickel is required for long-range electric cars. The batteries in a single Tesla contain about forty kilos of it. The Indonesian ...”

“... The Queen’s Speech​ in May included proposals for a new Public Order Bill intended, according to the government’s briefing notes, to deal with ‘highly disruptive protests’, such as those by Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, and against HS2. It will resuscitate clauses from the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that were rejected by the Lords, such as the criminalisation of ‘locking on’: when a person attaches themselves to ‘another person, to an object or to land’ and, by doing so, might potentially cause disruption to two or more people or to an organisation ...”

“... Such a view underestimates how much a well-filmed face or gesture can say, not recognising that it may in fact say exactly what the words were saying, and say it better. A great example of this possibility is Visconti’s sustained reading of Dirk Bogarde’s face in Death in Venice, but there are some good moments in Romeo and Juliet too. I’m thinking ...”

“... The teacher refuses. Later Sasaki decides that Nao (Katsuki Mori), the woman he is sleeping with, may be able to seduce the teacher into compromising behaviour. (Sasaki uses the phrase ‘honey trap’, an idiom I didn’t know existed in Japan, but then we do live in a globalised world.) Nao lures the teacher at least into compromising speech, which she ...”

“... on central issues, meaningful debate is difficult, bordering on the unachievable. Worse still, it may be difficult to get a debate at all. It was a disgrace that despite many requests from uncomfortable MPs for the recall of Parliament in those decisive weeks of August after Saddam Hussein’s army had gone into Kuwait, the House of Commons didn’t finally ...”

“... and even reviewers should beware: intellectual standards on the Baxter campus are high, and they may come up against unshaven desperadoes in short waistcoats draped with six-guns, pointing stubby fingers demandingly in their direction. (‘The way I figger it – truth is un-truth insofar as there belongs to it the reservoir of the not-yet-revealed, the ...”

“... events, he can achieve a sort of overlapping that suggests that something else, opaque, laconic, may be hidden under the overlaps. This isn’t obscurantism – simply a moderate and skilful exercise in Modernist narrative techniques by someone who thinks them appropriate to what he wants to do – not to his ‘meaning’, which is not, on his ...”