“... will.”’ Fraser didn’t receive an official reply.The BTP had already moved Ridgewell. In January 1973 he was transferred from Baker Street to BTP Force Headquarters, and in September 1974 he was sent to Waterloo. His anti-mugging squad was disbanded, but he faced no disciplinary action and was given a new job running a team investigating mail ...”

“... need to give direct orders to influence content.’ David’s obituary in the Telegraph, from January 2021, captures this well: ‘It had always been the brothers’ policy to intervene barely at all in editorial decisions – though their editors knew that they supported Margaret Thatcher’s enthusiasm for small government, free markets, lower ...”

“... a pre-existing response to the common human adenoviruses; and nCoV-19 (novel Coronavirus 2019) because that is what we called Sars-CoV-2 in January, before it got its official name in February. The recombinant virus produces the notorious Spike, and the immune system recognises it as dangerous because it’s ...”

“... missiles (Israel carried out a drone strike against Iranian military installations in Isfahan in January). The growing international appetite for Israeli military tech prompts campaigners to call for two-way embargos rather than simple export bans. Saar Koursh, a former Elbit executive who runs a company building illegal walls in the West Bank, touted his ...”

“... On 20 January 2025 Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. At the time of writing, it seems likely that the Republicans will win control of the House as well as the Senate. For the Democrats it is a major defeat. Never before has so much money been spent on a US election, to so little avail ...”

“... survey of protest photography in 20th-century Britain (at Modern Two in Edinburgh until 4 January), is a blurry, black and white shot of Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst in the dock at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in 1908. The three suffragettes, on trial for incitement to disorder for a handbill that encouraged ...”

“... bit better,’ Geoffrey Hinton, a leading proponent of neural networks, told Wired magazine in 2019. ‘We thought it was … because we didn’t have quite the right algorithms.’ But as things turned out, ‘it was mainly a question of scale’: early neural networks just weren’t big enough. Hinton’s former PhD student Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder ...”

“... nationalism, is an accelerant to this. Here, Seymour builds on his book The Twittering Machine (2019), which argues that the compulsive qualities of social media – its hall-of-mirrors narcissism, the dopamine hit of likes, clicks and follows – are used to manipulate our ‘fantasies, desires and frailties’ for profit. Participating in social media is ...”

“... a historic building. After the second fire, a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service report, issued in January 2022, concluded that the blaze was so intense no cause could be established. Of the possibilities it ruled out all but three: an electrical fault, some form of accidental (and non-electrical) ignition, and arson. There was no explanation for the failure ...”

“... bomb in the garden of their newly bought home. Dr Legg, whose last appearance in the series was in 2019, never remarried. At the same time, a fierce optimism – talk of Beveridge and the welfare state – is rising from the ashes (‘a whole new world’, in Lou’s words). Lou’s husband, Albert, returns from the war haunted by what he has suffered and seen ...”

“... deaths.I learned from colleagues in China about the disaster unfolding in Wuhan at the end of 2019. In early February 2020, I had a worrying conversation with an Oxford epidemiologist, Moritz Kraemer, who had been talking to doctors at the centre of the outbreak. After a visit to UCLA’s Ronald Reagan hospital in February, Kraemer told me that California ...”

“... Scotland to Co. Antrim – they believed that too.After Johnson’s landslide election victory in 2019, the DUP became dispensable. They should have seen it coming. A YouGov poll from June that year showed that 59 per cent of Conservatives were in favour of Brexit, even if it meant losing Northern Ireland from the union. History, too, ought to have prepared ...”

“... her books, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018. When the novel opens, in Milan in early January 2020, she is counting the days – eight – until her husband’s next MRI. And the years – two – since he had a bout of vomiting in Venice. Was he already ill then? Fifteen months have elapsed since a surgeon removed his tumour, his spleen, parts of ...”

“... other from God. He was 35, with four novels behind him but not enough fame for his liking. On 9 January, a newspaper story offered hope: in a small town in the east of France, a man called Jean-Claude Romand had murdered his wife and children, and then his parents and their dog. Romand was modest, well-liked, wealthy and honest – or so it had ...”

“... better than a Trojan horse for American domination of Europe, de Gaulle vetoed the application in January 1963.The following year, Labour came to power in London. Before his death, Hugh Gaitskell had rallied the party to vigorous opposition to British entry into the EEC, arguing that it would mean the end of a thousand years as an independent nation. Harold ...”