“... evidence that the airline was specifically targeted by the Lockerbie bombers – whoever they may have been, but that’s another story* – for its iconic status. By the time it shut down, the airline was losing two million dollars a day. Since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 1991 it had been frantically ditching assets like unwanted ballast ...”

“... We can’t reconcile them, and we would be in bad shape if we could. There is one effect that may link these pieces, even if the joke is on us. We keep forgetting, as the characters do, that the world of The Hunger Games is one where nothing goes unfilmed. When Katniss visits a hospital in District 8, a place that has been savagely bombed by Capitol ...”

“... catalogue essay María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui suggests that the pair depicted standing nearby may be Sandys and Basset. Although her evidence is slight, if true the identification would have implications she does not discuss, since both pairs are placed in the groups that Zoffany depicts via some hefty nudges as homosexual. The presence of the ...”

“... be transferred to the print; some processes add strength or regularity to drawn lines. Lithography may discourage fumbling, but essentially the plate gives back what it is given. Bellows’s Dance in a Madhouse, although it has its origin in a drawing made ten years earlier, sustains the urgency of marks made by a committed observer. In Charles Sheeler’s ...”

“... cinema where I saw the film? Does he want nervous laughter perhaps? He wasn’t getting that. It may be that the interesting moment in such stories is always when the dwarves appear with the mallets, not when they get down to work. And here, in Eastern Promises, a remarkably gripping and disturbing film loses us (loses me anyway) at precisely the moment the ...”

“... where people can discuss the difficulties human beings have in getting things right. MetaTalk may be the talking cure of ...”

“... on the Christian base of the Republican Party, which is composed of fundamentalists who, come what may, will continue to support the extreme right in Israel. So what is to be done? It looks increasingly likely that the answer is: nothing. On 19 February Condoleezza Rice convened a summit in Jerusalem between Olmert and Abbas, strictly for appearance’s ...”

“... even threatening to displace them. In Britain introductions as ancient as the sycamore (it may have come in with the Romans) have a weed-like propensity to seed themselves and take the place of trees with longer, better histories. In temperate lands, colonised in the 18th and 19th centuries, dramatic interactions between native and exotic floras were ...”

“... Although it is normal for scientific papers to end with words like ‘suggest’, and ‘may indicate’, and ‘support the hypothesis’ (words denoting that closure is far off), it is unusual to start a paper with ‘draft’, when it has more than a hundred pages of online supporting material, because it tempts referees and editors to return the ...”

“... the public values of personal dignity, democracy and freedom. No wonder, then, that on 6 May, Donald Rumsfeld admitted that these particular photographs were just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, that there are stronger things to come, including videos of rape and murder. In early 2003, the US government, in a secret memo, approved a set of procedures ...”

“... includes the right to look gay, to be gay in public, and in Milk’s view this look and this act may sometimes be everything. When Scott and others, later in the film, suggest that not everyone has to leave the closet, that privacy too is an important right, Milk says eloquently: ‘At this time, in this place, privacy is the enemy.’ This time, this ...”

“... by the media. This demand for self-promotion diminishes the actual work of art, whatever that art may be, and it has become universal. The media simply can’t discuss a work of literature without pointing to some writer-hero.’ The new ‘revelation’ confirms that – though even Ferrante couldn’t have conceived that the thing she wanted to keep to ...”

“... at askance as part of ‘a wider bias against applicants from less privileged backgrounds who may be lacking the “polish” of their upper-middle-class, Russell Group-educated contemporaries’. The justification for this, as old as snobbery itself, is that the brown-shoe wearer would simply not ‘fit in’. Snobbery works like Chinese boxes. The ...”

“... to a full restoration, completed in 2009, which has given the town its only listed building. It may be Pasmore’s most successful work, the constraints of the site and the form forcing him into something original that does represent a truth about postwar British art: that Modernism has its place and should be kept in ...”

“... three kings and a queen on a few square metres between sky and sea.’ I think the intention may be to say there is no stopping a real Caesar or a real destiny, but the effect is to suggest that destiny itself, to borrow the film’s logic, needs a lot of luck. There are many moments when it seems as if Napoléon could easily have been called The Triumph ...”