“... well, but even so there’s been a dramatic reduction in cases. However, one-off testing of a self-selecting population will have at best a modest effect. Systematic approaches with regular testing are much more likely to work. A variety of such approaches have been employed. At the Francis Crick Institute we test everyone individually every week. It’s ...”

“... race relations can only grow more alienated and embittered. Politics will grow more irrational and self-defeating, while the price of the good life … can only continue its upward climb beyond the reach of all but the most affluent. Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern and other demagogues of the airwaves will continue to make out like bandits, while the millions of ...”

“... of God’s mercy – will the monk attain the humility required for salvation. This posture of self-condemnation undergirds the memento mori tradition, a subset of death-facing literature typified by Hoccleve’s ‘Lerne to Die’. In the Body and Soul poems, as in those terse memorial inscriptions where the dead address the living (‘what I am, you ...”

“... years at home I had seen only their worst side & now I am seeing a splendid side of courage & self sacrifice for an ideal, that no woman would better.’ Class mattered here, too. Before the war, women doctors had little opportunity to treat male patients and were confined to specialties such as gynaecology, obstetrics and paediatrics. As the ...”

“... Fort’s very British mind – Eton and BalIiol – doesn’t wander easily to excavations of the self but rather to ruminations about history and class. ‘I like to picture Prior More of Worcester on a fine summer’s morning in, say, 1521,’ he writes, as he sets off on his bike to find the original commissioned ponds, a botched journey which nonetheless ...”

“... where he ate only salad and grains’. The endless rumours about their relationship brought on self-loathing, and Springora pretty much stopped going to school. ‘I was afraid of people’s glances, afraid of bumping into someone I knew … I clung to the walls, took ridiculous detours along the least populated streets.’ One day when Matzneff was in the ...”

“... the ‘rudimentary communism’ of the village, lingered awkwardly in an early modern world of self-interest and long-distance trade. The desire for abundance and autonomy will probably outlive the factory farm and the oil rig. All the more reason, then, to pay attention to the relationship between ideas and the material realities they addressed, ignored ...”

“... allegiance between king and subject, which in turn meant that Parliament ‘on the principles of self-defence … without respect to constitutional forms, had a right to oppose the tyrant to the utmost’. Macaulay welcomed the republic of 1649-53, but not the subsequent Cromwellian Protectorate – Cromwell was a hypocritical usurper who had exploited the ...”

“... to the excursus or the parenthetical remark. He admires the succession of short, narrowly-spaced, self-evident steps in a mathematical proof, and his own prose mimics this effect to a remarkable degree. Although the telescope figures as the instrument of wonders for Fisher, his own observations are more reminiscent of the microscope. Especially in the final ...”

“... require exceptional kinds of responses’. The ‘security turn’, Duffy argues, has generated a self-perpetuating security solutions industry.What Duffy describes as ‘Washington dog whistles’ – the spurious linking of any agenda to the fight against terrorism – were central, she contends, to the legitimation of security-oriented policies. The most ...”

“... thought to be part and parcel of womanliness here found a bizarre kind of apotheosis: the ultimate self-sacrifice. The dynamics of the seance might seem no more than further dismal evidence of woman’s docile submission to an artificial feminine ideal. But things are, as Owen abundantly demonstrates, a good deal more complicated than that. Barred from ...”

“... moral culture. Simply put, the idea was that each person should be engaged on the task of radical self-transformation in the direction of a ‘beautiful soul’, this being thought tantamount to moral perfection. Given Wittgenstein’s own heritage, it is very tempting to place him in this tradition. Certainly he often speaks as if his soul exists in some ...”

“... entertaining vitality. And this was evidently a game that many could play: black despair, entire self-deception, an inevitable violence waiting in the wings: but still, a stylish and entertaining evening at the theatre. It was what Brecht had noticed and raged against in the German theatre of the Twenties, and he would probabably not have been surprised to ...”

“... as a not especially welcome guest of King Henry in London; her life story is as full of spirited self-assertion and dubious decisions as that of Queen Margaret.Any follower of the narrative that unfolded after Margaret’s return to Scotland in 1517 is likely to become dizzy with the diplomacy and political alliances into which she was now plunged. They ...”

“... some of us, its low point remains the National Gallery’s Grandes Baigneuses, a vast, wearisomely self-reproaching snarl-up of ochres and Prussian blue. In this painting, a sexagenarian scrabbles after an organising logic to his receding sensual dreams, whereas in Bibémus Quarry his handiwork feels exuberant, shimmering with the surprise of direct plein air ...”