“... fictional ‘Factory’, the barracks of his dream police. In Golden Square, the statue of George II is shrouded, boxed for repairs. The caretaker opens up. A plaster finger on a prong of metal. A bench on which to read the second segment – before leaving it, in tribute, at the statue’s feet. South Molton Street has risen in status, a rich blue ...”

“... voters that they were eager to punish the undeserving poor: the ‘shirkers’ targeted by George Osborne’s cuts to the welfare state and the illegal immigrants Theresa May told to ‘go home’. But this did nothing to stave off far-right populism, which was buoyed by a combination of sympathetic coverage from the traditional right-wing press and ...”

“... had graced the state flag since 1879 with the ‘stars and bars’: the blue and white cross of St Andrew on an in-your-face field of bright red. Its Civil War service done, this banner had rallied the Ku Klux Klan as it helped re-establish white power in the South during a half-century reign of terror. When, in 1993, the then Georgia Governor asked the ...”

“... Lisa Nandy in Wigan to Angela Rayner in Ashton-under-Lyne, from Rebecca Long-Bailey in Salford to George Galloway in Rochdale, the politics of place are as central here as party politics.I met Gavin Grimshaw, six foot four, lean and sunburned in a Lonsdale boxing vest, in the simply furnished two-storey terraced house in Bury where he currently lives. The ...”

“... and the Capitol Building ‘coated in chocolate’. ‘They still call it the White House,’ George Clinton said on the title track, ‘but that’s a temporary condition, too.’In 1975, David Clarke, a white civil rights lawyer on the city council, introduced a proposal to decriminalise marijuana possession. He pointed out that marijuana arrests had ...”

“... at close hand a murder. The victim leaned towards Lucy and vomited blood. As he was taken away, George Emerson appeared, ‘looking at her across the spot where the man had been. How very odd! Across something.’ She has come across something. She faints, but comes to, repeating: ‘Oh, what have I done?’ Emerson is looking at her, but this time we are ...”

“... famous – it must have been c.1947 – she came to Leeds to sing at Brunswick Chapel. Uncle George made Mam and Dad go with him to hear her, and though they weren’t big ones for singing, they came back full of this young woman they had heard who turned out to be Kathleen Ferrier. What makes music inviolable still for me, and preserves it from the ...”

“... corruption. The ‘plebgate’ row of 2012 – when Downing Street protection officers accused Andrew Mitchell, the Tory chief whip, of swearing and calling them ‘plebs’ – contributed to this feeling. CCTV footage cast doubt on the officers’ account, while a man claiming to be an ordinary witness turned out to be a serving officer who wasn’t ...”

“... Guevara, and then left with Debray (and a third mystery figure, an Anglo-Chilean called George Andrew Roth, to whom the trail has gone cold), whereupon both he and Debray were detained. When I was in Camiri, both were in jail. Bustos was reluctant to talk to journalists, and many people believed that he had co-operated with army ...”

“... reactions differed even on the recognition of the Origin’s literary qualities: George Eliot sourly considered the book ‘ill-written and sadly wanting in illustrative facts’, lacking ‘luminous and orderly presentation’, and Karl Marx complained about ‘the clumsy English style’.) As Richard Horton observed in a special issue of ...”

“... wife and daughter; Bryan Flanagan, found dead by the road side; Widow Davy’s daughter; Andrew Davy. KILTURRA ELECTORAL DIVISION – John May and son; Pat Marren, Widow Corlely, John O’Hara, John Healy’s two daughters.What interests me here is the resonance of the names, all common in Ireland now. John Healy’s two daughters, or Mary ...”

“... called the Lansley reforms after their patron, the erstwhile Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley. The Lansley reforms left seven local organisations responsible for healthcare in Leicestershire. Five are part of the NHS and two aren’t. There are three consortia of GPs called Clinical Commissioning Groups, or CCGs – one each for the east ...”

“... reposition the police in Northern Ireland in the post conflict market (the RUC having been given a George Cross before being dragged kicking and screaming to the Orange Lodge retirement home) lies a British law enforcement agency’s atrocious record of human rights abuses, subversion of the law and even murder. Arani & Co, Solicitors occupies three or four ...”