“... Little admits that ‘quite likely very few’ of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on 6 January 2021 ‘thought of Shakespeare or theatre’, but insists that ‘resonances of a white Shakespeare haunted the insurrection,’ not just because the Capitol is near the Folger Shakespeare Library, but because the building is an architectural homage to ...”

“... as well be. The Child Trust Fund was a New Labour manifesto promise from 2001, passed into law in January 2005, giving every child born after 1 September 2002 a lump sum of £250, to compound until their eighteenth birthday. (My son qualified by a matter of days. Are kids born just before the cut-off annoyed about it? Yes.) The idea was to address structural ...”

“... London, April 2019.​ Police have confined supporters of the environmentalist movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) at Marble Arch after more than a week of protests. The activists decide to disperse, but a mural remains at the site: a young girl with a spade has just planted a sapling; she is holding a plant label with the XR logo, an hourglass in a circle ...”

“... the better to increase beef exports. The logic isn’t new, and it’s not as if the incêndios of 2019 are unprecedented; according to Global Forest Watch, this year’s fires in the Brazilian Amazon are no more numerous than those of 2016. What’s changed is the short-term political calculus on which the lifespan of the planet’s most crucial ecosystem ...”

“... an artist’s death can be decisive in fixing ideas about their work. For Schneemann, who died in 2019, this ‘freezing’ was an ambivalent prospect. She would have liked the kind of institutional and financial support that might come from Gowing’s book, but it also posed a threat. She had learned, she told him, that ‘to become the fantasy image of male ...”

“... that it thinks opposing the strikes will be popular. Poll results vary, but a YouGov poll from 16 January found that 51 per cent of the public opposed the rail strikes compared to 42 per cent who supported them – 51 per cent is well above the Conservatives’ current position in the polls. But if political advantage were the only consideration, you would ...”

“... House.‘We’re going to win,’ I said to myself for the first time. ‘The war will be over in January. Our soldiers are coming home. Instead of building million-dollar bombers, our country will spend that money constructing schools and health centres and rebuilding our cities.’ All the things I had heard my father talk about were about to come true. He ...”

“... the border. They just want to force them to go somewhere else.Policing the border is expensive. In 2019, the UK contributed £1.7 million to the French border force; in 2023, it was £17.4 million, or around 10 per cent of the force’s total budget. The increased funding, approved by Theresa May’s government in 2018, has been used to buy helicopters, quad ...”

“... southerners, notably the group of army majors who spearheaded Nigeria’s first military coup, in January 1966.According to Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, the leading putschist, the aim was to rid the country of ‘political profiteers, swindlers, the men in high and low places who seek bribes and demand 10 per cent, those who seek to keep the country divided ...”

“... In​ Transparency International’s most recent Corruption Perceptions Index, published in January, the UK fell to twentieth place, its lowest ever ranking. It’s not hard to see why: a Conservative government mired in allegations of corruption; billions of pounds in Covid contracts for politically connected VIPs; peerages doled out to Tory donors; public bodies stuffed with party cronies ...”

“... 1 January 2020, Yorkshire. A bright cold day and not one to be hanging about on our local station’s single platform, even with its vast view over the fells and the occasional heron. A phone call down the line reveals that the 10.15 to Leeds has been cancelled (‘operational difficulties’), so we go back home for a cup of tea and come down for the 11 ...”

“... setting the stage for Trump’s surprise victory in 2016.When Trump took over the White House in January 2017 there was anxious talk about the threat of populism. The GOP, dominant in Congress since 2010, had been throwing spanners in the works of America’s hegemonic machine: opposing stimulus, threatening to default on America’s debt, sabotaging quota ...”

“... conclude in November.Allegations of sexual misconduct against Scarlett were first made public in January 2020 in an article in the Times. Male students at the Royal Ballet School had accused him of inappropriate touching, commenting on students’ genitals in changing rooms, sexual messaging on Facebook and soliciting nude photographs (those who played ...”

“... of the Ulster Volunteer Force and a paid police supergrass, jailed for six and a half years in January 2018 after admitting to more than two hundred crimes over a sixteen-year period, including five murders, 23 counts of conspiracy to murder, and numerous counts of arson, kidnapping and assault. Haggarty was released in May 2018, after four ...”

“... in The Kaiser’s Holocaust (2010), and by Juergen Zimmerer in From Windhoek to Auschwitz? (2019). The links between the genocide in South-West Africa and the Holocaust depend on something else that Zimmerer makes clear: the colonial dimension of the Nazi exterminatory war in Eastern Europe. As Timothy Snyder put it, colonial ambitions transformed the ...”