“... in December 1990, Siad Barre in Somalia in January 1991 and Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia in May 1991 (precipitating Eritrea’s secession). In the networks of the Islamist international, Sudan claimed credit for all this. Khartoum’s new radical Islamist government had thrown open its doors to militants from across the Muslim world. They had counted on ...”

“... going to be future practice in written history? Most readers will hope that it won’t be, and may ask why such a long book could not find a few more pages for notes. Judt sensibly avoids paying too much attention to individual political parties. For example, he is interested in social democracy as a European ideology which rises and falls, but not much in ...”

“... the poems and that they were only later credited to her as a celebrated historical figure. Or it may be that she wasn’t their sole author. But what matters is the attribution of authorship: the identification counted for something among ancient Babylonian scholars. Her authorial voice speaks in the poems themselves:I am Enheduana, Iam the high priestess.I ...”

“... and how I stopped being one.’ To the extent that she played up to her media portrayals, Hjorth may have been responding to the postmodern trends of the 1980s and 1990s: play, irony, subversive mimicry of the things one is trying to undermine. I also suspect that she performed in order to hide her vulnerability. She seems, to quote her brilliant 2013 essay ...”

“... often the writer’s own, if she or he is no longer around – are set aside; these stories may not have been collected for good reason, and reading someone’s weaker attempts can dilute the power of the rest. The failures give away the writer’s workings – the swan’s feet paddling hard under the assured surface – which can be disenchanting, at ...”

“... tie into anything at all – even, at times, themselves.The piece of biographical information that may help most in understanding the power of Children’s and Household Tales is that Wilhelm Grimm had Technicolor nightmares. He dreamed once that Jacob was freezing to death on an ice mountain and on another occasion that his brother Ferdinand had been flayed ...”

“... painters (generally Adorno is funnier in moments of vituperation rather than jest). The piece may have been prompted by the amount of time Adorno, in his sixties, was spending on holiday. There are several travel sketches, which may have been attempts to emulate Benjamin’s shard-like essays on Naples, Moscow or ...”

“... under the recent Highways Act. He too went to Brixton, for six weeks.James, John and William may have taken some succour from [the magistrate’s] treatment of the only other men up for a capital offence that day, Thomas White and Alexander Lawson, who were charged with stealing cigars from William Tucker’s shop in Lambeth. Wedgwood decided to ...”

“... moves are occasionally allowed to take place.’ Bliss doesn’t quite say it, but Banting may have accelerated the discovery of insulin precisely because of his sloppiness and egotism.Macleod, who had encouraged Banting and made the work possible, soon became the subject of his ire after daring to question his results. Their relationship ...”

“... You may remember​ Palantir as the company that was given access to all of NHS England’s data in November 2023, in order to create a Federated Data Platform. The cost was £330 million – the largest NHS technology contract to date. Palantir’s first sales pitch to a UK agency came much earlier, in 2008, when its representatives gave a demo to an enthusiastic audience at GCHQ ...”

“... in the life of the capital through commerce or in the courts.) Cicero’s father’s ill-health may have masked a disinclination to enter politics, but Cicero intended to make it in the metropolis. He moved to Rome as a teenager, just before the upheavals of the Social War between Rome and its Italian allies, who had been repeatedly promised, and repeatedly ...”

“... the name Tom was disconcerting because Mosley didn’t seem to be one of nature’s Toms. One may speak of the demonology of Mosley without implying that there was not indeed a great deal, hideously much, that was demonic about him: that said, it can be admitted that ‘Sir Oswald’ was and is a powerful contributor to the demonology. It is not only that ...”

“... are the same the world over, despite what the politicians say. Delve a little deeper, and you may get a bit more out of the book. Eddie does really care about the anonymous audience that may or may not watch him pirouetting on his balcony, and he has winning ways if you will only ...”

“... to Russia. ‘It’s my mother,’ she quotes an elderly trade unionist as declaring: ‘She may be a whore, she may be a thief, she may be a junkie. But she’s my mother. I’m not going to throw her out or leave her on the streets.’ Few in Frognal had much time for ...”

“... going. ‘We were blocked in the town, and at night they terrorised other villages.’ Then in mid-May there was a rumour that the KLA planned to attack the police and Albanians were advised to leave to avoid reprisals. The majority did, decamping to Malishevo and neighbouring villages to live with relatives and friends. Sherif Gashi, a retired primary school ...”