“... strength of the right in Canada and Australia. This is the notion of the Anglosphere. It’s a white English-speaking male preoccupation, founded in a selective view of history that portrays war as inevitable, noble and glorious, where Britain and the majority white countries of its former empire repeatedly come together ...”

“... in either house – in part because key MAS deputies were physically prevented from entering. The White House rushed out a statement saying: ‘Morales’s departure preserves democracy.’ Añez moved swiftly to consolidate her unconstitutional position. On 13 November she fired Kaliman and installed a new army high command, and the following day she ...”

“... but by the time of the late work of Mark Twain a full disillusionment has set in. And if white civilisation was turning out to be so dreadful, perhaps it might be a good idea to take another look at those other (non)-civilisations that the rapacious white man had ‘cleared’ out of the way in his ...”

“... sign, in wartime, rude at all. These Vs are all the versuses of life from LEEDS v. DERBY, Black/White and (as I’ve known to my cost) man v. wife, Communist v. Fascist, Left v. Right, class v. class as bitter as before, the unending violence of US and THEM, personified in 1984 by Coal Board MacGregor and the NUM, Hindu/Sikh, soul/body, heart ...”

“... liquidation to the spider’s limb, embalmed in abseil/bellpull’s a stored snack swathed in white cerements of sticky scrim. Phoning that zero got the spider quick. Each leg’s in touch with 45 degrees of laddered circle where the insects stick on tacky wires their weaver walks with ease. Even the love-bugs, randy and ridiculous, coupling regardless of ...”

“... level of criminality, black men are said to be less likely to commit rape or abuse children than white men. Effeminate, handsome and macho heterosexual men have more opportunistic homosexual experience than other heterosexual men. The incidence of adultery relative to fornication has declined over time. The percentage of homosexual Roman Catholic priests has ...”

“... are the ways characters understand the world. ‘Whenever I did anything with Birnam Wood,’ Tony Gallo, an old flame of Mira’s, tells a friend, ‘my dad would say, without fail, “So who’s Macbeth?” It was his one joke.’Catton’s novels have a shared metafictional streak. In The Rehearsal (2008), set between a saxophone teacher’s studio and ...”

“... argument on behalf of the Scots, avoids this mistake, detecting in a provincial Englishman like Tony Harrison a fury and resentment not surpassed by any Scot. But this is hardly a novel perception, for Harrison has achieved fame on the strength of it. In fact, it’s hard to find any English writer who isn’t provincial in origin; I’m as much a West ...”

“... which swathe the memo-writing classes – when all that matters from first to last is what Tony wants. We live under despotism tempered by character assassination, but it remains convenient to use Royal Commissions to create illusions of propriety. Hence the constitutional issues are dealt with by omission, or perhaps by a timid desire to avoid any ...”

“... to say that Stanley, far from relieving Emin Pasha, destroyed him. His behaviour towards his own white officers was scarcely better: of the five officers whom he had left in an impossible position with the Rear Column for over a year, two were dead by the time he returned, a third invalided home, another stranded down the Congo River; only one was left with ...”

“... before. In addition, employment has switched from traditional manufacturing industries to a more white-collar, service-based economy. The inevitable result has been that class identity has fragmented. Only about a third of the population now regard themselves as ‘working-class’. Of course it is possible still to analyse Britain in terms of a strict ...”

“... normal circumstances, the Polaris fleet was not quite ‘our independent nuclear deterrent’, as Tony Blair described it in his foreword to the December 2006 White Paper on the renewal of Polaris’s replacement, Trident. The Nassau statement goes into some detail about the use of the Polaris force ‘for the purposes of ...”

“... have been a record of almost unrelieved bad news for Labour. The destruction by Harold Wilson of Tony Benn’s industrial strategy in 1975, the surrender of Callaghan to the IMF in 1976, and the creation of the Lib-Lab pact in 1977, divided and demoralised the Party. The one tangible achievement of the last Labour government, the reduction of inflation, was ...”

“... I first met Tony Crosland 25 years ago, at a seminar at Nuffield College. I took an instant dislike to him. I was then a rather priggish Bevanite, and I was shocked by his politics. I was even more shocked by his manner. He seemed to typify what I most disliked about the Southern English mandarinate. He had a cut-glass accent ...”

“... at the Tate Liverpool of a British sculptor in mid-career who is surely an artist of genius, Tony Cragg. If there’s another among that generation in Britain, it must be Gilbert and George, a pair of classic hedgehogs: everything they’ve done depends from that marvellous wheeze they had as students that a couple of artists could be living ...”