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“... by a mob including, it was said, men in the livery of the secretary of state Henry Bolingbroke. David Edwards, the fugitive printer of the Memorial, was wise to lie low. It would have surprised Edwards to be told, while in hiding, that state censorship was a thing of the past, but for many years that is what historians of the period argued. In 1695 the ...”

“... farcical, as the loss and recovery of his bones intertwines with the tempestuous fate of Italy. David Bowe reads Dante in dialogue with other lyricists of the duecento, while George Corbett examines his ethics and politics, appraising his magisterial synthesis of Aristotelian and Christian thought. John Took asks ‘why Dante matters’ and responds by ...”

“... in jobs. In 2010 France embarked on a spectacular eviction programme – Roma again – and David Cameron pledged to bring down annual net migration to the UK from hundreds to ‘tens of thousands’, a fantastic notion unless Britain left the European Union and refused entry to ever growing numbers of British returnees – 80,000 plus in 2008 ...”

“... the original SDP was incorrigibly Old Labour by Blairite standards. They have more time for David Owen’s later ‘tough love’ posture, though preferring what they call a ‘rounded’ blend of social market and community. Their explicit starting point is Thatcherism, their strategy to ‘move forward from where Margaret Thatcher left off’. Their ...”

“... on minority rights is by no means a form of hidden apartheid.’ Since the drafting of its Freedom Charter in 1955, the ANC had demanded a straightforward system of one person, one vote, with majority rule, which would give it the ability to transform South Africa’s unjust economy: ‘The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall ...”

“... of apartheid law when 156 of the signatories of the African National Congress’s Freedom Charter were arrested and charged with the capital crime of treason. Kentridge was briefed initially for Joe Slovo, whose efforts to defend himself before the examining magistrate had earned a sentence for contempt of court. Kentridge managed to get this set ...”

“... between them) that can be found in thinkers from Isaac Newton and John Locke to Adam Smith and David Hume. What Kind of Creatures Are We? reprints a series of lectures Chomsky delivered at Columbia University, with a lucid foreword by the philosopher Akeel Bilgrami. The second lecture, ‘What Can We Understand?’, opens with an avowal of ‘the new ...”

“... who had by then returned to office as foreign secretary in the wartime coalition government led by David Lloyd George. The British government would ‘view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object’. Although there was realpolitik behind ...”

“... salmonella’). Then there is the long line of sex-scandal casualties: Cecil Parkinson, Tim Yeo, David Mellor (greatly exaggerated, but not his only alleged misdemeanour), Hartley Booth, Michael Brown (though he is a borderline case, since he resigned from office while denying allegations that he had had a homosexual relationship). We should also not forget ...”

“... luxury: if, say, a giant asteroid were heading to Earth? Moreover, a world organised around the UN Charter as its basic constitutional law ‘would resemble Cold War South Africa . . . a small gang of ethnic minorities would own most of the valuable property and keep everyone else confined to “homelands”.’ Nato, by contrast, is seen by both as an ...”

“... David Blunkett’s latest Criminal Justice Bill, this Government’s 12th piece of such legislation since coming to power in 1997, will go a long way to producing a caste of untouchables in this country: those accused of committing a crime. It will strip away safeguards that have taken centuries to accrue, and alienate criminal suspects further from society as a whole ...”

“... involved in a range of lesser ‘Security’ services for private and corporate clients, in air charter and, directly or indirectly, in mining. The SRC family gives EO a wide margin of manoeuvre, both in terms of capital movement and assignation of personnel. SRC may even exist primarily to offer this flexibility, which is particularly important for a ...”

“... as a schools inspector, which makes his decision to send Graves to the coarse, unintellectual Charter-house rather baffling. Graves arrived in 1909, and at once suffered ‘an oppression of spirit’ that barely lifted during his time there. His most dreaded nightmare in later years returned him not to the hell of the trenches, but to the corridors of ...”

“... contribution here is to lob a few grenades at the ‘gentlemanly capitalist’ thesis. The Bank Charter Act and the repeal of the Corn Laws were not the result of City influence, since a majority of its members opposed those policies (though after their passing the City quickly accommodated to Free Trade and the Gold Standard, reconstituting itself away ...”

“... was undoubtedly the CIA. During the war-scare of 1948-49 the Agency was endowed with a Charter which, as H.H. Ransom puts it, was designed ‘for conducting what was, in effect, a secret Third World War’.1 Not only was the CIA exempted from all Congressional supervision, but its Director was endowed with large funds for secret operations which he ...”