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“... had met three years earlier, and the two had formed an immediate but gradually cooling friendship. Leigh Hunt and his family were conveniently near (too conveniently, the Carlyles soon decided). They became friendly with John Sterling and with Harriet Martineau. They would come to know Giuseppe Mazzini, Geraldine Jewsbury, John ...”

“... and a fine model of a Russian destroyer of 1912’. There is a withering account by Sir David Hunt of the reputed master-spy Sir William Stephenson, who encouraged the writing of best-selling works of fantasy about himself, in the best tradition of Buffalo Bill. Earlier volumes of the DNB tell of disreputable divines in George Ill’s time who abandoned ...”

“... Review, where Betjeman had worked earlier, Pevsner contributed a series called ‘Treasure Hunt’ under the pseudonym Peter F.R. Donner (in theory, to disguise how much of every issue he was writing himself). Still very much the architectural historian, with his references to the style of decorative motifs and examination of plan types, he turned his ...”

“... miss out or evade. The writers for Blackwood’s were having none of it. In the attacks on Leigh Hunt’s ‘Cockney School of Poetry’, a Cockney was simply what the upstanding called the upstart: ‘Your vulgar vanity, your audacious arrogance, your conceited coxcombery, your ignorant pedantry, – all the manifold sins and iniquities of ...”

“... Gold Medal, Lion, Signet. The kind of book written by born-again Watergate conspirators. Howard Hunt churning out Fawcett trash (The Judas Hour) under as many pseudonyms as Howard Marks. Who knows how far the CIA’s publishing nexus spread? Marks’s life, in his final frantic phase as a global drug-dealer, was too closely woven into the psychotic ...”

“... He said it would come from journalists he’d worked with there. He was obsessed with David Leigh and Nick Davies, two of the main reporters. ‘Davies is extremely hostile to me,’ Assange said. ‘The Guardian basically double-crossed the organisation in the worst way.’ (The Guardian denies this.) ‘We left them with a cache of cables – to act ...”

“... fraternised masonically in the holidays, took one another’s sisters to parties in Sussex and to hunt balls in Gloucestershire, and dressed like their fathers, in clothes that looked inherited even when purchased just the other day at New & Lingwood. My own background was different. In my last year at the school, I wrote an anti-Thatcher screed in the school ...”