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“... until I got a voluntary job. A woman called Margaret worked at Oxfam. I didn’t ask her about the lady who was at that time about to depart from Number 10. Surely now my agony was over and John Major would say: ‘Let’s forget the war.’ He would sack me and stop Radio 4 from tuning into my mind at lunchtime every day for the World at One. Reagan was long ...”

“... she was determined to avoid the ‘slop and sentimentalism’ she associated with the role of a ‘lady-novelist’. Her first sustained prose writings – she thought of herself, then and later, primarily as a poet – were works of what we’d now call feminist literary history. But to be put in any subcategory was always vaguely affronting. Her horror of ...”

“... and any lessons learned from past misjudgments will be invaluable. Often referred to as ‘The Lady’ by her supporters, Suu Kyi, who was born in 1945, is the daughter of the murdered independence leader and army chief Aung San. This helps account for the Burmese people’s devotion to her: why they flock to her speeches and keep small photos of her ...”

“... When we explain how the city works to visitors, we always tell them this story. An eighty-year-old lady who lived alone was not in good health. One day, the water meter, electricity meter and gas meter in the old lady’s apartment hadn’t moved for 24 hours. The computing platform sent an alert to our staff, who contacted ...”

“... letters home on the soldiers’ behalf, soliciting their needs (and occasionally those of ‘lady-nurses’). Among the requests:D.S.G., bed 52, wants a good book; has a sore, weak throat; would like some horehound candy; is from New Jersey, 28th regiment. C.H.L., 145th Pennsylvania, lies in bed 6, with jaundice and erysipelas; also wounded; stomach ...”

“... chimneysweep having his teeth pulled out for transplantation into the mouth of a fashionable lady, in exchange for a coin or two. Sugar from the colonies rotted the teeth, and live transplantation from the younger and more expendable was mooted as one solution, though the procedure usually failed.While Rowlandson invoked the contrast between the vain ...”

“... thought that the ‘gist’ of it was much the same as that of Swinburne’s ‘Dolores’ (‘Our Lady of Pain’). This was thought ridiculous, but was it? Laura has given way and gorged herself. She is sick unto death and knows that only more of the pernicious juice will cure her, but she is permitted to buy it only once. Lizzie has to brave the ...”

“... The frame yawns to a living-room. Slim Whitman warbles through the hum of a bad earth. The Green Lady cries over the scene: you, compromised, steadily drawing out the juice of the one man you could not seduce, but his legs are sliding up his shorts, his mouth drops open in its slot and at the point you suss his groans come not from his throat, but your ...”

“... of the details of Susan’s daily life are borrowed from Dorothy Parker’s Diary of a New York Lady, written in the Forties and subtitled ‘During Days of Horror, Despair and World Change’. Parker’s empty-headed, self-centred diarist has a marriage on the rocks (‘Joe left word with the butler he’s going to the country this afternoon for the ...”

“... hero’s elevation to the Captaincy of his House, to the sheer and tasteless perversity of ...”

“... usual groundswell of Spanish waiters, odd Foreign Office, sprinkling of BBC. Plus (God Bless Our Lady of Downing Street) many, many unemployed youths. HENRY: Unemployed youths. Dear me. CHARLES: Yes. (They both shake their heads at the plight of unemployed youth.) Anyway I am stood there, you see, in the lavatory purporting to have a jimmy riddle for upwards ...”

“... judgment, you will not have heard these passages. They come from the full-length judgment of which Lady Hale, the president, was delivering a summary. The summary is itself a document of lambent cogency which ought to become required reading for students, whether of law or politics or for that matter the English language. The problems of Brexit have not been ...”

“... down saluting, singing a part of the words to the tune, Hirayama smiles and salutes back, even the lady running the bar salutes. The two men wonder what would have happened if Japan had won the war, and Hirayama says quite firmly that it’s better that they lost. The burden of the sequence, though, is not the war but the past, whatever the past was. This is a ...”

“... foods, exotic foods, dented tins’, the sign says) but they can’t be given a food parcel. The lady with the Sainsbury’s bag sat down in a low armchair and was given tea and cakes donated by a local café while her parcel was prepared: Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, two tins of Heinz soup, black-eyed beans, Del Monte canned peaches, tinned ...”

“... he draws himself wheeled in his pram by Nanny in Kensington Gardens and cooed over by a veiled lady with an ermine muff and hat, and in another illustration he is taking tea with aunts whom Lartigue would have been keen to snap. In his guides to British architecture (Pillar to Post and Homes Sweet Homes), the excesses of the latest thing are ...”