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“... however, professors of literature who think we should rather go along with or encourage change. Christopher Ricks writes on clichés, contesting the common view that their prevalence is a sign of decadence: since we can’t beat them, he says, we ought to join them, or rather change them and use them in surprising ways, like the poets Geoffrey Hill and Bob ...”

“... have begun in 1974 in Time was away: The World of Louis MacNeice, edited by Terence Brown and Alec Reid, but at that stage it was a tentative thing. Indeed, Derek Mahon’s essay in that book, ‘MacNeice in England and Ireland’, mentioned the matter only to set it aside. ‘He had no place in the intellectual history of modern Ireland,’ Mahon ...”

“... politicians, one seeking to shepherd labour towards the left, the other towards the right. Fred Reid writes of Keir Hardie as newspaper editor, convinced that ‘he, almost alone, stood firm for socialism’ in the ILP, and determined therefore to keep its organ, the Labour Leader, under his private control. Its style was coloured by the ‘new ...”

“... commentator told me, claiming that several shadow cabinet members felt the same way. ‘John Reid would have this lot for breakfast,’ a former party worker and self-described ‘Essex Thatcherite’ had said to me a few weeks earlier, echoing many Tories’ morbid admiration for the authoritarian home secretary. On foreign policy, there are clear ...”

“... soldiers: Nigel Coupe of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, and Jake Hartley, Anthony Frampton, Christopher Kershaw, Daniel Wade and Daniel Wilford of the Yorkshire Regiment. All except Coupe, a sergeant and father of two children, were aged between 19 and 21. They died in Afghanistan in March 2012, out on patrol in Helmand province, when their Warrior ...”

“... Cook and Jones, sued McLaren for misuse of their earnings.There was a bit in the piece about Jamie Reid, the artist responsible for the ransom-note typography on the Pistols’ record sleeves and for the image of the queen with a safety pin through her nose. Reid wanted to design an album cover made of emery paper, so that ...”

“... another, it’s unfortunate that their own texts are sometimes careless. You don’t have to be Christopher Ricks to spot that there’s an extra word in the third line of ‘To a Mouse’, or a word missing from line 82 of ‘A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton’. Such glitches are often the result of poor proofreading, and suggest that the Canongate Burns may ...”

“... Interrogation and Criminal Injustice’, Dixon suggests that the police were influenced by the Reid Technique, a controversial interrogation method that has been used in the US since the 1950s. Step two in its ‘nine steps of interrogation’ involves trying to recast the crime as something anyone in that situation might have done.Detective: I think she ...”