“... said. Julian: ‘British courts.’Julian always behaved as if he was being pushed onto the back foot over ‘redactions’. The issue was this: on 28 July 2010, Major General Campbell, a US commander in Afghanistan, said that ‘any time there’s any sort of leak of classified material, it has the potential to harm the military folks that are working out ...”

“... had to dig down into a stash hidden behind a sofa to show me the trophy he won in 1975. ‘Top 139-foot Trawler’, the plate reads, with the value of the catch engraved down to the last pound: £311,666. As the skipper, Hardie got five per cent, minus five per cent of the cost of the trip – a haul, for three weeks’ work, of perhaps £100,000 in today’s ...”

“... impressively for his gear. CNN was here for some really significant story – the marriage of Sir Paul McCartney and anti-landmine campaigner Heather Mills, perhaps; a shade less probably, the wedding in St Eugene’s Cathedral, Londonderry, of Gráinne, daughter of Northern Ireland’s Education Minister Martin McGuinness (not yet knighted for his varied ...”

“... that Tanner and his followers were African American (Tanner, who seems to have stepped out of a Paul Beatty novel, refers to his organisation as ‘Melanated People of Power’ and plans to run for president in 2028). Another was that Ken Paxton, the aggressively conservative attorney general of Texas (and hardline Trump supporter), had decided to get ...”

“... and blue and white china on shelves; beyond it was a series of kitchens. Straight ahead was the foot of the staircase and beyond it a drawing-room with blue-grey walls and reproduction furniture in a Louis XV style, including a grand piano by Erard painted with putti and other pinky figures and a bow-fronted display cabinet containing porcelain and ivory ...”

“... It was signed, surprisingly enough, by such leftist writers and sponsors of the Revolution as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, ltalo Calvino, Marguerite Duras, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Juan Goytisolo, André Pierre de Mandiargues, Alain Jouffroy, Joyce Mansour, Alberto Moravia, Octavio Paz and some others who couldn’t even pronounce the name of ...”

“... for issues that people care about, and social issues, at least for the present, fit the bill,’ Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, said. ‘Yes, [social issues] are emotional issues, but that’s better than talking about capital formation.’Anti-abortion positions were imposed from the top down in response to the demands of angry ...”