“... to find such a large majority in this group in favour of Trump.In modern America, neither economic self-description as articulated in polling nor political identity are independent variables. It is likely that in the coming weeks, large numbers of voters who in early November declared themselves in such surveys as the monthly Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index ...”

“... Annalena Baerbock, implore voters not to vote for Die Linke. But the most satisfying political self-detonation was that of Christian Lindner’s FDP, the party of slick entrepreneurs trapped in the amber of mid-century Ordoliberalism. Lindner, an amateur racing-car driver, came up with an elaborate plan titled ‘D-Day’ (discovered by Die Zeit’s Robert ...”

“... distance, laughing and occasionally chatting amicably with the mob, which was made up not only of self-professed former IDF soldiers but also several white nationalists, including members of the far-right Proud Boys, whose former leader was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the 6 January attacks on the US Capitol. Since white nationalists ...”

“... reading, he never really refined or developed his early position. His final book about art was the self-explanatory and hand-waving Enjoying Pictures (1934), and he made no efforts to revise or correct Art for later editions.His main activity after 1914, as Hussey assiduously details, was not literary but social, greased by his wealth and new fame. Bell made ...”

“... I was enervated by the cruelty, so exactingly portrayed, of malicious fathers and pea-brained, self-pitying mothers on whom the narrators avenge themselves.In My Phantoms, the teenage Bridget and her sister are spending another miserable Saturday with their father when he starts stalking a young woman in a supermarket aisle. He turns to his ...”

“... of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.’ By and large, though, the tone was robustly self-satisfied, with plaudits for Israel and Britain in equal measure. Lord Turnberg (Labour): ‘Israel owes an enormous debt to Britain … we should celebrate the fact that we in Britain provided the foundations of a democratic state in a part of the world ...”

“... when looking on a Lost City. The reader will quickly learn to make allowances for her powers of self-dramatisation and also for her capacity to detect, as she thinks, signs of tension in others (she has a history of ‘nerves’ and breakdowns). When the war begins she remembers the young sailors she saw in Barrow at the time of Munich. They all had such a ...”

“... Pratt’s own story to recede and the novel to turn in on itself: so much is it concerned with the self-contained world of images in themselves that all reality runs out of it – the case of a novel taken over by its subject. The Mosquito Coast has the pattern of a marvellous journey round a country and a character: but it’s not a myth, a fable or a ...”

“... media, but quotes approvingly the hostile reaction to this by Commissioner McNee and that tireless self-publicist Chief Constable Anderton. A headline of undisclosed provenance, ‘Police Kill 274,’ is used as though it was typical of the media coverage of the controversy about deaths in police custody. The subsequent findings of the Home Affairs Select ...”

“... of the personal anarchy of unsettled modern life’ and represented the ‘vulgar push and self-interest that was changing the nature of English society’. But those comments occur in Midnight Oil: Pritchett is too finely scrupulous an artist to blur his story’s sharp focus with authorial interpolations – and he also relishes the vitality, however ...”

“... by Sara Maitland as ‘alive and well and rampaging inside me ... the wild Father inside my own self’. (I am not sure whether this is Jungian orthodoxy or a Freudian slip. I rather think it manages to be both.) This politicisation of one’s genetic disposition will lead to extremes of radical explanation that can surely never attain universal ...”

“... Berners phenomenon. Nor would Berners himself have complained. The character Lord Fitzcricket, a self-portrait, in his novel Far from the Madding War (1941), is described as ‘astute enough to realize that, in Anglo-Saxon countries, art is more highly appreciated if accompanied by a certain measure of eccentric publicity’. This fitted in well with his ...”

“... the play of ideas beneath the bland words, in the overall notion of the piece, in the sentences’ self-consciousness about the act of writing itself. These writers are like art students from Goldsmiths’: never mind the finish, feel the concept. Thus the first page of this first novel reads: Florida was the largest producer of tangerines in the ...”

“... one of reciprocity; authorising or retrieving the mother is a form of authorising the autonomous self. Feminist academic biographers have written with honesty and humour about their strong identification with their female subjects, and their need to separate, evaluate and detach. For some, the process is even marked by guilty dreams. Charlotte Goodman ...”

“... he emerges more or less unscathed, with the proposal that to be conscious – in the sense of self-aware – a computing machine must have an operating system that incorporates a model of itself. One would scarcely expect a firm answer to the question whether the possession of such an operating system would necessarily confer consciousness on the ...”