“... in the essential inequality of the African. A very striking portrait of Williams, quite possibly a self-portrait, hangs in the V&A, acquired by the museum in the 1920s from Long’s descendants. New research on Williams and the portrait is being undertaken, and new plans are being made for its display. As a Windrush tribute it is currently exhibited alongside ...”

“... The war​ in Ukraine has prompted a wave of self-critical reassessment among Western scholars of the former Soviet Union. Have studies of the USSR unthinkingly reproduced the logic of a Russian imperial project? Do we need to look at the Soviet period through the lens of ‘decolonisation’? The German historian Karl Schlögel’s own process of introspection began in 2014, with the annexation of Crimea and the Kremlin’s stoking of rebellion in Donbas, which he describes in the preface to The Soviet Century as the ‘drop that made my cup run over ...”

“... through the pictures offered by Mateus Araújo and Julien d’Abrigeon. Famous slogans about the self are repeated by Godard. ‘I think therefore I am’ becomes a way of ‘deciphering the world, but on the basis of an attentive inspection of its own representations’. ‘Je est un autre’ becomes ‘a recurring quotation’, even if Godard ‘virtually ...”

“... of the territory), supporting Morocco’s plan for autonomy instead of calling for full Sahrawi self-determination, as previous governments have done. In his approach to diplomacy, Ruto stands in sharp contrast to Odinga, who was respected across the continent. But Odinga’s mediation efforts were often ineffective, and his decision to quietly align ...”

“... of 823 francs. Does any publisher do this nowadays? It would certainly add to a writer’s normal self-doubts.The custom was for a publisher to buy a book outright, gaining permission to exploit it for a set number of years, and then, if it was successful and the author agreed, would buy another term for a second down payment. If the book proved a sudden ...”

“... masterminded the Jacobite Rising of 1715. John Ker of Kersland – a slippery figure and a self-serving confabulist – seems to have plotted during 1707-8 to bring together the opposite extremes of Scottish life, the radical Presbyterian Covenanters of the south-west and Jacobites from north of the Tay, in an anti-Union alliance; he was also reporting ...”

“... In ‘Skin Deep’, first published in the New Statesman in 1966, she complains about ‘the agile self-appointed spreaders of enlightenment’ who suffer from ‘I-think-James-Baldwin-writes-marvellously syndrome’ and ignore other Black voices.Busby is especially attuned to the influence of editors and anthologists during the Harlem Renaissance. The ...”

“... took more votes than either centre-left or centre-right from manual workers, small entrepreneurs, self-employed, students and jobless; the centre-right prevailed only among housewives, the centre-left among pensioners and white-collar workers. Such was the electoral arithmetic. Parliamentary numbers were another matter. Central to the Second Republic had ...”

“... the other, there were the forces of indigenous rule, the so-called ‘provisional institutions of self-government’, which Unmik was supposed to invigilate, but which hungered increasingly for real power: the Kosovo government, which will outlive the UN mission, consists of a president, an elected assembly – 120 seats – and an executive with a prime ...”

“... who could lay for the Republicans the golden egg of the presidency, she brimmed with the inflated self-assurance of the small-world conqueror, and held a national audience in the palm of her hand as she recited the same confident platitudes that served her so well in Alaska. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and McCain and his advisers should have left ...”

“... handling of the bonus issue this year. Goldman Sachs clearly thought they were exercising heroic self-denial by awarding themselves a compensation pool amounting to a mere $16.2 billion. Haiti’s total GDP is $7 billion, and even before the earthquake one child in eight died before its fifth birthday; imagine Goldman turning over half its trough to Haiti in ...”

“... elaborate superstructure of American newspapers to develop. The well-staffed offices, the air of self-conscious seriousness shading into pomposity, the tendency to file what from a British point of view always seemed several hundred words too much – all these features of American papers were underpinned by the easy money of monopoly-based classified ...”

“... heroines are often isolated and bullied by the coarser people around them, but she was too self-aware to stack the deck in favour of the misfit every time. A passing reference to Eleanor’s mother describes her ‘hysterical insistence’ that all the bad things happening to their family were ‘due to malicious, backbiting people on the block who had ...”

“... became a well-known writer under her married name, Winifred Peck). The family ethos was strong, self-mythologising even, and had to do with being ‘brilliantly clever’ – all but ‘poor Ethel’ went to Oxford or Cambridge – and ‘distinguished by alarming honesty, caustic wit, shyness, moral rigour, willpower, oddness and powerful banked-down ...”

“... of government. But this system collapses before the end of the play into something more simple and self-enclosed. ‘The dead do not belong to you,’ Tiresias tells Creon, ‘nor to the gods above.’ There are moments – and death (or more properly decay) is one of them – that belong neither to sacred nor to secular law, but to themselves. Antigone has ...”