“... to see you too, considering the fact that your little darling only has one eye now. ‘Army’ may not be a very good poem but it’s altogether preferable to the sentimental sludge and slurry of Duffy’s other juvenilia – you realise that here she has discovered her much-praised talent, her gift for imagining and recording voices that are not her ...”

“... the Falklands War, and indeed long before that. There are many questions which a fighting man may reasonably be asked, but ‘Are you scared?’ is not one of them. Fifty years on, we have a public which, as Fraser says, is all too ready to shape its behaviour to the media’s demands. The ‘Are you scared?’ brigade does not hesitate to needle the high ...”

“... suddenly confronted by a glamorous display of naval dash and efficiency – so that the audience may feel: ‘Ah, this is the real navy – or the Platonic idea of the navy.’ Was that scene, too, ‘a wart on a pretty face’, or a beauty-spot on a crone’s puckered brow? Zinnemann also had to contend with masterful Harry Cohn, the president of Columbia ...”

“... possesses nuclear weapons, a blindspot that he was impolitic enough to reveal in front of Theresa May. But complaining about Trump’s ignorance and lack of curiosity is easy: what Bolton and his colleagues fail to do is to measure his strengths. Among them are his mastery of publicity and his ability to exploit the grey space between rules and ...”

“... and ‘rotten’ spring; crops are failing and prices are high; people are falling ill with what may be the plague. The town’s new governor, Lukas Einhorn (the ‘False Unicorn’) is lazy, cynical and eager to find someone to blame for the woes of his petitioners. When Ursula Reinbold, the wife of a ‘third-rate glazier’, comes to him with a story ...”

“... says, and it can be dated as ‘coming after the novel that won the Prix Renaudot in 1932’. We may feel it lacks the wit and energy of the previous work, but it has its own sinister charm, and it provides a further hallucinated contribution to Céline’s case against war. ‘I caught the war in my head,’ the narrator says early on, as if it was a deadly ...”

“... to tell. And although the book includes a general defence of the claim that individual expression may be regulated to serve deliberative democratic values, what he is willing to advocate is fairly innocuous, and of doubtful effect. US law has struggled with the question of how far to extend rights of speakers’ access to the public forum. The attempt to ...”

“... is some suspicion that his plea to funding Hamas, which cost him nothing in prison time, may have been a ruse to bolster the credibility of the prosecution case.) In return, he got seven and a half years instead of a potential life sentence, with a promise of further reductions if he continued to ‘co-operate’. His credibility was heavily ...”

“... plausible culprits: the Hittites claimed responsibility for the conquest of Cyprus, the Kashka may well have brought about the Hittites’ own downfall, and we know that the Kassite kingdom fell to the Elamites. Cline surveys other possible causes of collapse: internal rebellions, declining trade, earthquakes and climate change. The latest pollen analysis ...”

“... notes the usefulness of a biopsychosocial understanding of medicine which recognises that someone may act out a conflict in such a way as to alert others to it, while at the same time summoning the community to their aid.O’Sullivan also discusses a condition that affects children in Sweden whose families are caught up in protracted asylum ...”

“... be laid by the heels.’ Kerr’s gloss is: ‘He was still too scared to tell the truth.’ Freud may have felt disquieted by this talk of ‘filth’ and ‘the devil’, and the lapse it might intimate into (Kerr’s expression) ‘the old religion bug’, but replied promptly with the bland generalisation that ‘to be slandered and scorched by the love ...”

“... Kurmanji, an illegal Kurdish dialect: ‘I shall struggle so that the Kurdish and Turkish people may live peacefully together in a democratic framework.’ MPs erupted with shouts of ‘separatist’, ‘terrorist’ and ‘arrest her.’ Parliamentary immunity saved her, for the time being. Over the next three years, Zana openly criticised the Turkish ...”

“... that move turned out to be of no more use to the adults than their money had been – though it may well have saved their daughters from the attention of the Nazis and the local collaborators who soon appeared like another swarm all over France. The girls took shelter with the mother of their nanny; moving from one house to another, they survived the war ...”

“... the one with the most philosophical resonance. Marginal though Warhol’s film production may have been, he occupies a central place in motion picture discourse. It’s impossible to consider practitioners of cinéma vérité like Frederick Wiseman or provocateurs like Lars von Trier, the entirety of home video, porn, surveillance, webcams and reality ...”

“... loss and being run over by cars and off-road vehicles severely affect their numbers, the ravens may be a worse danger still. The birds have become what the wildlife biologist Michael Soule calls a ‘subsidised species’, meaning that they have a stable food source in garbage, as house-cats preying on songbirds do in cat food. Urban garbage dumps around ...”