“... industry, rests on the belief that ‘the question at the heart of Sinclair’s novel’ is ‘how may we transition to a post-carbon democracy?’ It isn’t clear what led him to this conclusion. While it would be nice to find Sinclair anticipating our current ecological concerns, there’s little evidence that the notion of ‘a post-carbon ...”

“... activity was digested and reconfigured by preconscious or subliminal stimuli. The 19th century may have produced little scientific work on sleep, but there was a vast and sprawling pre-Freudian literature on dreams, much of it entangled with other mental phenomena – hallucinations, delusions, hypnagogia, dissociation, clairvoyance – that were ...”

“... departed the gold standard in 1931: ‘They never told us we could do that!’The situation may be so dire that conformism of any kind is implausible. Whitehall has drawn up a list of potential ‘black swan’ events that could upend the new government in its first year; many of them seem unsurprising, even likely: the collapse of the prison ...”

“... of minimum dwelling and socialist typification. Today ‘from the Bauhaus to our house’ may not be a bad path. It may be a necessary ...”

“... many older folk in the village, apart from Nan Shepherd. She had taught my mother, whose name was May Salmond, between 1950 and 1953 at Aberdeen Training Centre, where students were ‘trained’ to be teachers. The general method of instruction conformed to the norms of the 1950s classroom: students were addressed like children, desks were laid out in rows ...”

“... The government​ is making it harder to vote. As of 4 May, when local elections take place in some parts of England, and in all British elections after that, everyone who votes at a polling station will have to show photographic proof that they are who they say they are. Some have made the comparison with voter suppression in the US, where Republicans impose onerous ID requirements to keep the vote down among those least likely to have suitable documents – namely the poor, who are assumed to lean Democrat ...”

“... de Waal suggests that anthropomorphic language, although it can at first seem sentimental, may turn out to be a more accurate, even more scientific, way of describing animal behaviour. ‘Anthropomorphism is problematic only when the human-animal comparison is a stretch,’ he writes, ‘such as with regards to species distant from us.’ Apes often ...”

“... cripples have to walk?’, a fellow guest grumbles, limping to the table on a sprained ankle. This may turn out to be a discussion about the way some people’s freedom tramples on others. The museum director, for instance, is late to dinner because she had to deal with the police after the suicide: the man’s bid for freedom inconvenienced hundreds. She ...”

“... January 1940, Staël, who had enlisted in the Foreign Legion, joined his regiment in Algeria. In May, France confronted defeat, but it was not until September that Staël was demobilised and rejoined Jeannine and her son, who had moved to Nice. In 1942 Jeannine gave birth to a daughter, Anne, and, in September 1943, all four moved back to Paris, which was ...”

“... work done by social movements, and by those involved in scholarship, social policy and law? We may reasonably ask if it is only the putatively ‘extremist’ forms of gender ideology that are to be opposed. If so, is there a proposed criterion by which ‘extremist’ gender ideology can be distinguished from the non-extremist kind? Since the federal ...”

“... reads her work aloud to me at dinner beside the crashing sea. She is a surrealist and may be a little mad (but one thinks that of lots of people here). Narrow cats slide past our feet. You shatter, she translates a poster on the wall (burning city) exhorting all to join the army.HeloiseHeloise goes to a dinner party. She leaves work early and ...”

“... ever quite be trusted’ is oversimplified – some Catholics served the queen well – but it may reflect Cecil’s own perspective. Burghley had compared apparently peaceable Catholics to Judas, ‘that came to Christ without armour, colouring his treason with a kiss’. So Cecil conceived of his role as that of a guardian against the forces of ...”

“... from the beginning or end of the play. Rather than a collection of complete dramas, the papyrus may contain a selection of greatest hits.Both passages are unmistakably by Euripides. They share his love of aphorisms, his obsession with the overreach of the powerful and the dangers of cleverness. In one passage, Polyidus rebuffs Minos’ demands: ‘So ...”

“... between the film director and the actor that their involvement isn’t permanent: the actor may be offered a more desirable part, or the director may feel the need to make a different kind of film. The separation is often painful because the collaboration can be intense, especially so if they had loved each other. In ...”

“... And that it                              may choose its                              spot sofreely, from which to scan, and, without more than the wintry beguiling                              wingstrokes seeding                              the fields of ...”