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“... widespread in the media. This disposition, first described by the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, is merely a strong tendency to make judgments or evaluations in light of the first thing that comes to mind (is ‘available’ to the mind). Are there more words with ‘r’ as a first letter or as a third letter? What about ‘k’? Most ...”

“... in Swindon. These were established for railway workers in the 1860s by Brunel’s right-hand man, Daniel Gooch, just down the road from Matthew Digby Wyatt’s vast railway sheds (a more lucrative commission than his Cambridge baths), and governed now – as they probably always were – by fierce rules about the wearing of properly concealing ...”

“... place between the original memorandum and its revision. ‘Troublous Times’ (from the Book of Daniel) is her summary comment in the December journal on the king’s descent into madness, which was already destabilising state affairs. But the institution of monarchy was in much deeper trouble in 1790 when Burney wrote those words. The Gothic style of her ...”

“... it’s the post-11 September destination of choice. Heathrow without the hassle. Then take your pick of Santa Fe (‘South-Western American restaurant and Cocktail Bar . . . authentic and exciting’), Ed’s (‘Authentic 50s American diner’), Tootsies (‘Authentic American family restaurant in a stylish setting’). Plus: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried ...”

“... David Runciman, Neal Ascherson, James Butler, T.J. Clark, Jonathan Coe, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Daniel Finn, Dawn Foster, Jeremy Harding, Colin Kidd, Ross McKibbin, Philippe Marlière, James Meek, Pankaj Mishra, Jan-Werner Müller, Susan Pedersen, J.G.A. Pocock, Nick Richardson, Nicholas Spice, Wolfgang Streeck, Daniel TrillingDavid RuncimanSo who​ is to blame? Please don’t say the voters: 17,410,742 is an awful lot of people to be wrong on a question of this magnitude ...”

“... has suggested that we look at the brain and ask how we would make an instrument like that. So has Daniel Dennett. But for Rose, the question is simply historical: observe as best we can, with a bit of imagination, how simple, slightly brainy creatures evolved into increasingly complex systems. Not just humans, and not just mammals: observe how different ...”

“... under De Gaulle attacked the greenback with purchases of bullion, sending a cruiser to New York to pick up its share. Describing Nixon as ‘the only president with an original mind in foreign policy’, Anderson counts his decision to sever gold from the dollar and his declaration of the end of the Bretton Woods system as a remarkable coup de main. ‘The ...”

“... of a ‘moderate’ Saddam Hussein an implausible proposition. But in the Middle East one must pick one’s moderates where one can find them and many Westerners who had previously thought of post-1980 Iraq and Iran as two equally unpleasant regimes intent on doing the maximum of damage to each other began to see in the ‘mature’ Saddam Hussein the ...”

“... that beats at the heart of the bucolic fascist movement, and it is the same pulse that animated Daniel Shays, the Whisky Rebellion and some of the early populist movements. A man can’t brew his own booze no more, can’t hunt when he wants, can’t build an outhouse on his own land without filling forms into next week, can’t educate his children with ...”

“... is clearly not their fathers’ corporate culture anymore. ‘It must have been so weird,’ Daniel Underwood, the novel’s narrator, says, ‘living the way my Dad did – thinking your company was going to take care of you for ever.’ Even Microsoft, the perennial upstart against the paleolithic IBM, has lost some of its lustre. Watching a group of ...”

“... the ‘problem of England’ through the eyes of an unseen narrator travelling in the spirit of Daniel Defoe along paths since obstructed by nuclear power stations and motorways, Robb covers French space and time simultaneously. He passes through them like a ghost through walls, and drifts across intellectual frontiers.Robb is the author of ...”

“... U, Stoke) and then, once they’re exhausted, the enemy’s archers (in this case, Didier Drogba) pick them off. Mourinho understood this, and humiliated Wenger time after time.There​ is, I suppose, something heroic in Wenger’s refusal, in the face of so much opprobrium, to adapt to the new football, but it’s not clear that Wenger is the real victim ...”

“... Pankaj Mishra, Azadeh Moaveni, Jan-Werner Müller, Vadim Nikitin, Jacqueline Rose, Jeremy Smith, Daniel Soar, Olena Stiazhkina, Vera Tolz, Daniel Trilling Sofia Andrukhovychtranslated by Uilleam BlackerOn​  the first day, we hid in the Mins’ka metro station with our dog, Zlata. The entire platform was covered with ...”

“... is the first option, ‘happy’ is the second. If they don’t fit, you can scroll down and pick from 120 other moods, including ‘fed up’, ‘anxious’ or ‘stuffed’. Facebook has made no secret of the fact that it passes our personal information and preferences to ad companies, branding agencies and governments. In 2014, we learned that it also ...”

“... On the second, they got as far as the DNC offices, but had forgotten the tools with which to pick the lock on the door. On the next attempt they got in, but the fourth operation on 17 June was required to fix some problems with the bugs they had planted. Forty​ years on, the emphasis in the literature on Watergate is changing from forensic to ...”