“... to fail but was still living on her own in her mews flat she would sometimes get confused and ring her daughter Jan for reassurance. She rang one day to say: ‘I’m in the studio doing this picture with John Wayne. Only he’s gone out and left me. And everybody else has gone out and left me and I’m stuck here on my own.’Jan said: ‘Mum. You’re ...”

“... The small press volumes, with the lush abandon of their time, came with an apparatus of seduction: Jim Dine ink-blots and fingerprints, proper paper and bindings, care, attention, swagger. Poetry puffed its chest (soliciting its own demise). It was still the flipside of pop culture, real lyrics that millionaire rock stars fed on. Ugly things growled in the ...”

“... become a solo artist and changed his name to Elton John. In 1967, he made the mistake of singing a Jim Reeves song (‘He’ll Have to Go’) at an audition for a new, progressive label. The offices, he noticed, were chaos. ‘There were piles of reel-to-reel tapes and hundreds of envelopes everywhere.’ The manager ‘seemed to pull an envelope out at ...”

“... dumped her philandering rugby-player fiancé, Cecil, and flung her diamond and sapphire engagement ring into the sea off St Andrews pier. Willa died, back in Scotland, in 1970. Margery Palmer McCulloch, who wrote this perceptive and sympathetic account in her own old age, did not live to see it ...”

“... on to experiments with mixed-powerplant fighter aircraft, but the ethos of craftsmanship remained. Jim Scragg joined Saunders-Roe as an apprentice and retired from it forty years later as manager of their rocket activities: he remembers working on Black Knight in a design office which had once been the stables of Osborne House. They worked backwards from the ...”

“... not only from the unpaid labour of thousands of brainwashed militants, but from a spreading ring of Moonie enterprises. Symbolically enough, the first such operation was a gun factory, and soon the Moonie Tong Il group gained a key role in the Korean defence industry. In 1966 Tong Il obtained the official American franchise to make M16 assault rifles in ...”

“... might have destructive ramifications for the international order, the secretary of defence, Jim Mattis, and chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, decided that what was needed was a change of scene. So in July last year they brought Trump to the Pentagon and arranged for a policy session to take place in its secure meeting room, known as ‘the ...”

“... with all her daughters, sending Decca magazine cuttings and dealing gamely with requests to ‘ring up the Daily Worker … & ask them whether they know of any interesting mass meetings or demonstrations’, though she was baffled by some of Decca’s news, admitting she had no idea what a trade union was. Unity died in 1948 at the age of 33. Decca never ...”

“... are now talking about an endemic culture of sexual misconduct at the BBC. (‘What? A paedophile ring at the BBC?’ asked the consternated reporter Shelley Jofre on Panorama.) But when the lawyers look for evidence they should look to the culture itself to find proper answers. Until now, no one thought to examine Children’s Hour and the world around ...”

“... of meadow peeps out, or a factory appears, leading to a giant rustic-style Safeway and a patch of ring-road leading to a town. But mostly you see the featureless prairie leading nowhere. At Bradford Farm, outside Uckfield, there are five modern-looking barns and a house islanded in bushes. At the end of the garden a Union Jack flaps in the wind at the top of ...”

“... to meet in George Square at 6 p.m. The group was founded in 2011 by a former BNP staffer called Jim Dowson, who is from Cumbernauld but now based outside Belfast. Also among the crowd were members of a Rangers supporters’ outfit called the Vanguard Bears. Last year, they met the Progressive Unionist Party – the political wing of the Ulster Volunteer ...”

“... makes the connections between rock and myth absolutely plain (partly by using capital letters): JIM MORRISON FOUND DEAD IN BATH IN PARIS? Wife Clytemnestra and lover murder Troy veteran husband in bath. MARVIN GAYE SHOT BY DAD IN BEDROOM? Oedipus kills father at crossroads. HENDRIX CHOKES TO DEATH IN HOTEL? Ajax stabs himself on beach. MANAGER ROMANCES BABY ...”

“... in the Space Age, which has become the central text on the subject. Dolman and others like Jim Oberg and John Klein began by applying the theories of late 19th and early 20th-century geopolitics to space. Considering space as analogous to the oceans, they turned to theorists of naval power like Antoine-Henri Jomini and Alfred Thayer Mahan. Classical ...”

“... laws were broken, but it’s not by any means too early to say that this defence has a Reagan-era ring to it. And so do some of the business deals involved. ‘If Reaganomics works at all,’ wrote Hillary Rodham in a 1981 letter to the ill-starred speculator Jim McDougal, ‘Whitewater could become the Western ...”

“... Following his successful tenure at the Home Office, he became chancellor in November 1967, after Jim Callaghan had appeared hapless in the face of a sequence of sterling crises leading eventually to devaluation. Jenkins was widely reckoned to have played a bad hand well. Going into the 1970 election, he seemed the obvious choice to succeed Wilson as Labour ...”