“... Carlile, a ‘free-thinker’. The TLS published an acerbic review of Walmsley’s book whose anonymous author was later revealed to be E.P. Thompson. In The Making of the English Working Class, the second edition of which was published in 1968, Thompson depicted Peterloo as a bloody class conflict orchestrated by the magistrates and, most likely, by the ...”

“... and her uncommon resistance to any sense of either despair or the ridiculous in these endless anonymous copulations. You have to question her assertion that she has never suffered any kind of clumsiness or brutality, and wonder at the absence of unpleasant diseases. Of course, you wouldn’t if it were a fiction: the purely sexual story would be ...”

“... to burn a pile of wax paper. The peculiarity of the story, or collection of episodes, is in the anonymous narration: the narrator is in love with combustion, and associated with it (the woman in the car was his aunt). He records every fire faithfully. Some are telegraphically expressed in footnotes, added for a sense of satisfying completeness; some are ...”

“... by Curnow’s account of the siege at Glenrowan (the final description of Kelly’s execution is anonymous). By the end, Kelly has become, if not corrupted, then at least, like Prince Hal, compromised by his new-found power. (There is a wealth of irony in a fictional representation of Ned Kelly, outlaw and Australia’s unofficial national hero, admiring a ...”

“... first to note that Palestinian return was subject to Israeli power even at the time of his death (anonymous intelligence personnel threatened to cancel his funeral), just as he was the first to note that in 1988 the Palestine National Council and the PLO had changed themselves from a liberation movement into a national independence movement – a far lesser ...”

“... phone, shaking & foaming at the mouth … I recognised a baseness in you.’ She intercepted an anonymous letter that had come to Feynman’s house, addressed to ‘Occupant’: ‘Dirty Dick, Filthy Fucking Feynman dates you. He will never marry you. Tell him he has made you pregnant. You’ll make a quick $300-$500.’ The girlfriend took the Einstein ...”

“... refers to the modern Greek language as being the ‘undisputed heir of ancient Greek’, the anonymous scribbler has added: ‘Nonsense. It is the barbarous pidgin of the Albano-Slavs who defile the land of their occupation with the deformity of their “dago” bodies and the squalor of their politics.’ But ideas of continuity also raise more ...”

“... and they praise Allah when British hostages are beheaded in Iraq.’ But what could transform anonymous bragging into murderous behaviour? Shabbir felt that poverty and alienation might have made the bombers more susceptible to extremist ideology, but his brother disagreed. ‘That’s just an excuse people make for them,’ he said. ‘Those people ...”

“... spin operation, its astonishing control of the political ‘narrative’ and contempt for what an anonymous aide is said to have termed ‘the reality-based community’. In the meantime, the cast keeps piling up. Vanessa installs a talkative taxi-driver as chief theorist of her newly commercial production regime. Tyrone is accused of attacking a curator ...”

“... on the area is consigned to the dustbin, not least myself: Kelly gleefully unmasks me as the anonymous author of a report from the Dhofar guerrillas in the Sunday Times of March 1970 (the article was, in fact, signed with my own name), and then goes on to berate me for having reported the education campaign being carried out by the guerrillas, which I ...”

“... him in the heart. When Charles heard that Buckingham was dead, he wept. But others celebrated. An anonymous ballad declared that Buckingham’s ‘name shall be/For ever hateful to posterity’.As its title suggests, The Scapegoat is a largely sympathetic portrait of a brilliant man who was deliberately ‘paraded before a homosexual king’, catapulted to ...”

“... at how many of the really top jobs are held by them.’ He was right, of course. To disprove the anonymous allegation, he showed me the evidence of a full and fair recruitment process for each of the positions. ‘What can I do? If they are the only suitable ones to apply, they are the ones that are going to get the jobs. No one asks the CEO why he has ...”

“... masses, tombs and epitaphs, accompanied a new anxiety about Judgment and the afterlife generally. Anonymous burial, the normal lot of all but the rich and powerful, gave way to the desire of more ordinary persons to have some memorial. Death was well on the way to becoming ‘untamed’, and in the third phase the melancholy appropriate to the death of the ...”

“... Wilde and the Aesthetic movement are part of a conspiracy to corrupt ‘our boys’, and its anonymous versifier concludes his prejudicial attack by exclaiming: If such be ‘Artists’, then may Philistines   Arise, plain sturdy Britons as of yore, And sweep them off and purge away the signs   That England e’er such noxious offspring bore!* This ...”

“... the BBC went to male Oxbridge graduates from the public schools, that radio announcers had to be anonymous and wear dinner jackets and that even when the Corporation ran a programme about the concerns of working men, none of the speakers had been to a state school. The atmosphere was prudish and intrinsically conservative. When Reuters supplied the Beeb with ...”