“... it. The example he gives is the abluted Croatia of tomorrow. This is an argument first made by Tom Nairn about Bosnia, in much the same tension of grief and realism. The extension of Garton Ash’s range to the Balkans thus involves more than a geographical move. It represents an intellectual and moral enlargement. But by the same stroke, it throws into ...”

“... and how to go hiking on the Côte d’Azur’ and turns it off: ‘That was better, worth paying a licence to keep the thing quiet.’ And she’s dazed, ‘wearied’, at the cinema, ‘the daft tales they told and the dafter news’, ‘the cantrips a creature was playing, a mouse dressed up in breeks like a man’.‘Getting up and working and going to bed ...”

“... the wrong moment to provoke him – he’d been buying booze for a friend. After he got out on licence in March, seven years in to a thirteen-year sentence, he went camping with his brother and had a little drink. The tag alerted his probation officer; since he didn’t do anything bad while he was tipsy, he wasn’t sent back to prison, but the threat of ...”