“... ambiguity, as it is in the UK. But that isn’t the way things work here.‘I’m OK going with a class two misdemeanour because no violence was involved,’ the DA said, making little attempt at discretion. The man had been charged with child abuse, though his offence was simply driving over the limit with his child in the car. He was Hispanic, and, judging ...”

“... he was afraid that if he went back to the Navy base he’d get busted back down to Seaman Third Class. (As a 12-year-old, I was obsessed with such details of service life. The whole set-up sounded marvellous to me.) In Art’s story, the maid, a pretty young Latina woman, arrives one morning to clean the room when he is sitting in his bathrobe, hung over ...”

“... or service provider who didn’t understand what a Coutts account meant was demonstrably too lower-class to deserve patronage from Coutts clients such as the queen and Wayne Rooney.) RBS by contrast planned to keep the subsidiaries together as part of a new company, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. RBS won the fight, and became the second biggest UK bank ...”

“... they were unreliable parents. Again, Marten was in combat mode, fighting a battle and losing the war. And her account wasn’t the whole truth. There were many other occasions when they failed to turn up for visits. This ‘lack of commitment and inconsistency’ was causing their children emotional distress, Judge Reardon ruled. When they did spend time ...”

“... work that way. They now have to go to the end and live with it. But they’re doing it on first class. When this Satoshi thing comes out I can see a lot of bad things happening, and they are not geared up for this, any of them.’ ‘I’m concerned for him,’ I said. ‘There’s not really a happy ending here,’ Pedersen said. ‘Was it the same in ...”