“... about Burke’s politics, even at their most apparently conventional, and no review can do full justice to the knotty, multi-stranded density of the arguments Bourke recovers. He shows that Burke’s understanding of the British constitution was indebted not only to his reading of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, but also to a more recent revolution that ...”

“... the top.*A well-known magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, graphically describes being raped by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s. The president denies knowing her, but after photos of the two of them in groups at social gatherings are produced, he says: ‘It never happened. She’s not my type. I’ll say it with great respect: number one, she’s not my ...”

“... We watched it on the day the Supreme Court approved Trump’s ban on Muslims, and the day before Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement and Germany were knocked out of the World Cup. Not that episode 11 provided any answers; not that the series was confident about its questions. As fellow-victims will know, and in the pattern of many long-form ...”

“... an example for mankind but also took on himself the heaviest blame for human sinfulness. Divine justice requires satisfaction for our criminality, and this the son of God supplied. His vicarious punishment made up, in some degree, for the faultiness of our own obedience and repentance. It opened the way for divine mercy to proceed. Of course, ‘obedience ...”

“... trusted to keep them. When the younger Bush, after the 2006 election, brought in Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld at defence, he would have had in mind that history of loyalty to the Bush family. With Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantánamo to think of, Gates was a man to trust. Also, Gates might help to slow and muffle the incessant pressure from Cheney and ...”

“... For the Left Mr Smith’s death was an opportunity to restore to politics that sense of social justice and higher purpose which he was believed to represent. When the Prime Minister spoke to the Conservatives’ Scottish Conference the following day he argued that the reaction to Mr Smith’s death demonstrated that politicians did not deserve the contempt ...”

“... in the election and the candidates of his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (the Movement for Justice), had to stand as independents. Nonetheless, Khan’s party emerged as the largest in the National Assembly, with 93 seats. All the signs had pointed to an even better result for the PTI, and it now seems clear that without ballot-rigging it would have ...”

“... predictions come thick and fast these days. The ‘sixth mass extinction event’, the election of Donald Trump, the Mayan calendar cataclysm of 2012, the ‘clash of civilisations’, the millennium bug, all looked – or look, to some of us – like our last bow. According to an article quoted in Adam Roberts’s book It’s the End of the World: But What ...”

“... also (and strangely, considering his origins in the neo-Augustan ‘Movement’ of the Fifties) Donald Davie, who kept the subject respectable, the interest alive. Michael Alexander suggests that ‘indifference and bafflement are today more common than hostility,’ and that may be so. But there has been some excellent work done on Pound recently: Richard ...”

“... night. I meant what I said and it’s still how I feel.’ The previous day, Ryan had disinvited Donald Trump from his home state rally after the release of the 2005 tape on which Trump bragged about kissing and groping women. It was the culmination of the long festering feud between the Republican establishment’s pseudo-intellectual leader, the eminently ...”

“... 1970s, SNCC had disappeared.After Lewis left SNCC, he worked for various philanthropic and social justice organisations, and between 1970 and 1977 directed the Voter Education Project, which publicised itself with a poster proclaiming: ‘Hands That Pick Cotton Now Can Pick Our Elected Officials.’ Under Lewis’s leadership, VEP registered four million new ...”

“... 24 hours he spent at home in Câmpina. It’s possible that his parents invoked this rule when Donald argued for the things he wanted to take with him.Until my father​ boarded the steamer at Constanţa, just shy of his tenth birthday, all the journeys he’d taken had been completed within a day or a fraction of a day – in the car to the holiday ...”

“... American politics and business, unseen by the public and out of reach of democracy and the justice system’, an ‘enemy within’ that poses a ‘greater threat to our country than any foreign enemy’, all the more insidious because its agents look and sound like ordinary Americans, coaching Little League, shopping at Target. He thinks that ...”

“... Some answers to these questions are suggested in these recent books by Olive Anderson and Donald Read. Both are excellent pioneering studies. Both are concerned with modes of right and wrong behaviour. Both attempt to pose questions about Victorian England at large. And both enhance our capacity to probe the values of this abundant and complex society ...”

“... anxiously – and accurately – to his agent, on the opening of Small Craft Warnings in 1971. Donald Spoto believes the story he has pieced together reveals his subject ‘as a man more disturbing, more dramatic, richer and more wonderful than any character he ever created’. This orotund declaration is simply irrelevant, and it does less than ...”