“... Middle Temple seems to be to have the names printed on a sheet of milky-green glass. Sign-writing may in the end become an amateur craft, one which distinguishes the independent sandwich bar from Starbucks.The ability to print type, photographs or drawings on plastic and stick the result over a whole building, a bus or a taxi has eroded the distinction ...”

“... nor ever will, though the whole point is to know why one is walking, the answer to which, if I may repeat myself, is that it is a matter of curiosity walking as I do, for example right now on the Day of the Dead, because the Day of the Dead is something that greatly interests me. Every Day of the Dead is different from the one before and I wouldn’t miss ...”

“... dressed to impress in shades of Tiffany turquoise with fabulous hair and an engagement ring that may have been on its way.The risk with this sort of work is that it can start to feel formulaic, and perhaps this is why Sherald has begun to expand her range of poses and settings. In A Midsummer Afternoon Dream (2020), a woman leans against the handlebars of ...”

“... shifting steadily towards a five-party system (six in Scotland and Wales). The local elections in May 2025 made clear the threat posed by Reform to the two main parties, which translated into a national polling lead it has not given up since. The election in September of Zack Polanski as leader of the Green Party, on a bold left-populist platform, was a ...”

“... Jack £223 and sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment, suspended for twelve months. In May 2008, Rizwaan Sabir was arrested on the campus of Nottingham University because he had downloaded a copy of the al-Qaida training manual from a US government website while researching his MA. The police had profiled him because he was active in supporting ...”

“... to which indigenous citizens are subjected by homeland security, corporate marketing and ISPs may be equally intense, but it is surely less insidious. Europeans now take an invasive interest in newcomers: their itinerary, their abilities and disabilities, their faith, their criminal tendencies, their likely mendacity and, of course, their loose-footed ...”

“... is a creation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which passed into law in May. Ahmed will work out of the Office for Students and have the power of ‘monitoring and enforcing’ regulations that impose on universities and student unions a new duty to ‘secure freedom of speech within the law’ for academics, students, staff and ...”

“... here,’ my father said. ‘You should study the texts. You should know our history. Later you may do as you wish. Even if you reject everything, it’s always better to know what it is that one is rejecting.’ Sensible enough advice, but regarded by me at the time as hypocritical and a betrayal. How often had I heard talk of superstitious idiots, often ...”

“... short of this last reservation, but the Sustainable Development Commission insists that markets may look very different in future and we shouldn’t assume that our strong ‘financial and service sectors’ will enable us to access food from around the world indefinitely. Better to arrest the decline of British farming: the carnival of food awareness in ...”

“... vital to the global economy – which its officials have explicitly threatened to deploy. They may induce hunger – much of the Middle East relies on Russian and Ukrainian wheat, for example – and desperation in regions far and wide. Who will the regimes under threat choose to blame? Russia? Or the US? Meehan CristThe war​  in Ukraine has ...”

“... while the pantheon casts a long, blighting shadow, some writer nearer in time, or less weighty, may provide the liberation from Literature. Eliot, in ‘To Criticise the Critic’, explains that ‘just as the modern poet who influenced me was not Baudelaire but Jules Laforgue, so the dramatic poets were Marlowe and Webster and Tourneur and Middleton and ...”

“... to pose as a Nazi sympathiser to fulfil his many duties, he chuckled and replied: ‘Y-y-yes, I may have over-c-c-c-orrected a bit th-th-there. What’s y-y-yours?’ On his return from France in 1940, where he covered the retreat to Dunkirk for the Times and the KGB, Philby – according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which seems to have its own ...”

“... he was able to piece together. His friend from the City had fallen in with some Italians. There may or may not have been an orgy but some kind of drugs were involved which gave Tuppet paranoid delusions. He had discovered a terrible secret. The Italians were mafiosi. Their bags were full of drugs and guns and now they ...”

“... the implications of nuclear warfare. It is only among the non-nuclear minor powers that war may appeal as a rational way of obtaining one’s ends. On the other hand, his prose style is dialectical and reflects the clash of thesis and antithesis in human affairs: as with Oakeshott’s writings, the meaning is not always on the surface. Few in his field ...”

“... as a writer and as a musician’ and his influence on her was of a deep and ambivalent kind that may have been partly responsible for difficulties in her subsequent relations with men. Sidonie, too, was revered and loved by Melanie, who in turn was doted on by the family in general, though she believed herself to have been an unplanned child. Her eldest ...”