“... when Trade and Industry Secretary; a director of Sears, the owners of Selfridges; a director of J.C. Bamford, the excavator manufacturers; and a programme presenter on Mr Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News channel. He was also elevated to the peerage. Sir Norman Fowler, the former Secretary of State for Employment, became a nonexecutive director of Evered, the ...”

“... Amery; industrialists in the arms business such as Arnold Weinstock of General Electric and the Clark brothers, who ran Plessey together with ‘two splendid shooting estates’; the old airplane maker Sir Thomas Sopwith, who owned a lovely stretch of the Test but also a grouse moor, which introduced Pincher to grouse and in turn to Viscount Slim and Sir ...”

“... where their papers were organised by Marie Bonaparte, who put in a good word with the Duke of Kent. Four of Sigmund’s sisters stayed behind in Vienna and perished in the concentration camps: Dolfi, of starvation, in Terezín, Rosa in Auschwitz, Pauli and Mitzi in Treblinka. ‘Boy Smoking’ (1950-51) Lucian Freud was sent to a boarding school ...”

“... word ‘quagmire’ headed a New York Times piece by the Vietnam-era commentator R.W. Apple Jr, pointing out the ‘many echoes’ between the new conflict and the war America tries hard to forget. A rash of articles erupted, explaining how different they really were: Vietnam hot and green, Afghanistan cold and arid, the Taliban had no nearby sanctuary ...”