“... trade as an (economic) fundamental value the Court avoids conflicts over fundamental values which may be held in the member states.’ The Court’s defenders would say that it is doing no more than the member states, by signing the Treaty, have themselves agreed should be done. If so, the shift Szyszczak goes on to identify – though hardly ranking as a new ...”

“... left him determined never to be out-trumped in cynicism. Trite and silly as political correctness may sometimes be, it takes someone like Wyatt to bring home the mindlessness of knee-jerk incorrectness. When Elspeth Howe complained about the women having to withdraw after dinner at Cavendish Avenue, Wyatt explained that ‘it was sensible that the women ...”

“... nil. The Times columnist Bernard Levin: two. Levin deserves a special mention. In the Times in May 1996, he implied that Jerry, a Newbury road-protester, planned a firebombing campaign. I know Jerry. He was the victim not the perpetrator of just such an attack: six months before the article was published, his bus was firebombed as he slept on board with ...”

“... of a woman obliterated and distorted by history: ‘A woman . . . is all reputation, because she may not act. So, even as we do nothing, our reputations grow more impossible, and fragile, and large.’ Enright was once taught writing by Angela Carter at the University of East Anglia, and there’s something of Carter’s sensual, self-fashioning ...”

“... of love. ‘I do not think that people want love most,’ he writes in his journal for 12 May 1946: ‘they need the settled reverie, the calm testing and tasting of their past and the world’s past.’ And again (2 February 1947): ‘How almost non-existent is my feeling for other people, especially when I am ill! There they are, doing things for ...”

“... as ‘art’ or ‘design’, Forty suggests, tongue not totally in cheek, that the right answer may be ‘words’. Nor does he have to delve deep into critical theory or the patter of the schools to sustain that argument. It is enough, in one of many well chosen illustrations that grace his book, to show Ernö Goldfinger barking orders down the ...”

“... and complacent – patronised Ruskin. Dean Liddell of Christ Church was among them (‘He may be a great Drawing-Master, or a great artistic Poet, – as he is – has been, – never anything more. – Voilà mon avis’). Charles Eliot Norton, at Harvard, was another. Those who have read the correspondence between Ruskin and Norton with ...”

“... in Tehran. Her son was conceived out of her traitorous relationship with a Russian diplomat, who may or may not have been Mr Ryazanov. Since his mother’s death Dr Spencer has taken a protective interest in the boy, inspiring his study of Persian and perhaps more. John, it becomes clear, came to Iran not as a hippy, but ...”

“... everything can be prearranged: as I write, it appears that for no reason at all McCain and Bradley may win the New Hampshire primaries of their respective parties. I tend to believe that voters are reporting this preference just to screw things up or make them a tad more interesting. No one can explain why the American Presidential system should be so much ...”

“... a serious mistake, as some of the volunteers returned home to lead an Uighur insurgency. China may have trained as many as 55,000 Muslim volunteers, Uighur and non-Uighur. Soviet officials claimed their training was paid for the by the CIA at a cost of $400 million, an estimate Cooley thinks cannot be far from the mark. Margaret Thatcher rivalled Ronald ...”

“... of art ... seems to be a property or quality that can never be wholly got rid of. However much we may stop mentioning it and try and shame it into leaving, it just keeps on hanging around.’ Chris Ofili, who won the Turner Prize in 1998, is included in this chapter with his sequinned, beaded, dotted, varnished, lustrous, rainbow-coloured paeans in paint to ...”

“... Agency gladly filled the vacuum, exploiting Palestinian disarray and passivity to the full. In May 1947, the Agency handed a plan, complete with a map, to the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), proposing the creation of a Jewish state over 80 per cent of Palestine – more or less Israel today without the Occupied Territories. In November 1947 the ...”

“... from certain perspectives,’ she adds, ‘many of the proverbs discussed in this book may look disturbing, and their messages quite “politically incorrect”. But it would be a regrettably short-sighted reaction to reject or suppress, or even censor those cross-cultural ideas from the past, without further reflection.’ She goes on: ‘It is ...”

“... girls has called one of the black girls ‘N-I-G-G-E-R’. It is clear from the start that she may not be telling the truth; she is a cow-girl, someone who enjoys an adventure and a fight, and isn’t interested in whether the facts justify aggression. When the narrator asks Arnetta what will happen if the white girls deny the charge, she says: ‘Don’t ...”

“... In May 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute announced that it was offering seven prizes, worth $1 million each, for the solutions to seven mathematical problems, which had been identified by a group of internationally acclaimed mathematicians as the seven most difficult and most important unsolved mathematical problems of the day ...”