“... terms, for ‘an active prefiguration of new communities and formations capable of egalitarian self-governance’. ‘The threshold of a post-capitalist world is not far off, a few decades at most,’ Crary concludes, but this note of hope is quickly dashed: without prefiguration ‘post-capitalism will be a new field of barbarism.’ Based on the present ...”

“... arriving at a time when it has been rejuvenated by the war in Ukraine, has prompted a carnival of self-congratulation. In July, the leaders of all member nations, from Biden to Orbán to Zelensky, turned up in Washington for Nato’s birthday summit, including Starmer in his first week on the job and Macron days after losing his governing authority. The ...”

“... local gun club, where his friends buy smuggled AR-15s through WhatsApp groups for what they call self-protection. She notes the specialised language of the WhatsApp groups offering merchandise:Bullets were called ‘frijoles’ (beans) or ‘chicharros’ (small mackerel). Guns were known as ‘juguetes’ (toys). A new gun was referred to as ...”

“... cultured intelligence of the Austrians (which he admitted was superior to his own) but saw them as self-satisfied and the opposite of revolutionary. In 1913, Stalin, who had been sent to Vienna by Lenin to research the issue, published Marxism and the National Question, which ‘represented the outright rejection of the Austro-Marxist concept of national ...”

“... postwar Britain in anything like the same volume, as the country underwent a push towards national self-sufficiency in food.The vast dock complex built when Liverpool was at the heart of imperial power and British trade networks was abandoned. The new industrial estates created by the postwar social-developmental state were struggling. Obsolescence was layered ...”

“... office. But covering the Clinton presidency was more complex – or more thwarted. As exercises in self-defeat go, could anything match Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky? Denying it, as Clinton did, even more so. Yet John was reluctant to pursue the story. You could, if you were John, choose to avoid it for personal reasons, but journalistically – that was a ...”

“... was launched with a radical prospectus: 1. Recognition of the right of the Scottish people to self-determination 2. … assert that the Tories had no mandate to run Scotland 3. Non-payment of the poll tax 4. Labour participation in a Constitutional Convention 5. Non-co-operation at Westminster on Scottish business 6. Greater autonomy for ...”

“... but the New York Times wasn’t among them; Time, Newsweek and the television networks ignored it. Self-censorship was pervasive. The Washington Post was an exception: the Post’s editors rewrote it, adding Pentagon denials, and put it on the front page. The question for Hersh was: how to expand the investigation beyond Calley? An answer came when he spotted ...”

“... spent, because it incentivised renters to become homeowners and rendered them more responsible and self-reliant (and more likely to vote Tory). It also had another effect. To his final question, ‘Why was there so little popular and political resistance to this huge transfer of national assets?’, Christophers has several answers. First, the process was too ...”

“... market with its state-backing; its talk of public service is feel-good hokum disguising economic self-interest and managerial lassitude. Norman Tebbit derided the ‘insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the 1960s.’ These complaints are not pursued ...”

“... grapevines and citrus trees could be moved from Europe to New South Wales, making the colony self-sufficient or even a source of supply for Britain; seeds from Peruvian cinchona trees could be grown in British India to ensure a steady supply of quinine, with which to fight malaria. Banks thought up one of the earliest British plots to steal tea ...”

“... Isherwood, who was in the habit of thinking well of people, thought Klaus ‘without vanity or self-consciousness’; ‘his great charm,’ Isherwood said, ‘lay in this openness, this eager, unaffected approach.’ Others didn’t share his view. Glenway Wescott called Klaus a ‘tragic twerp’; Janet Flanner thought he was pathetically dominated by ...”

“... her Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), a work of endurance art and political protest whose self-imposed ‘rules of engagement’ required her to carry a dormitory mattress everywhere she went on campus for nine months. ‘That image,’ Hillary Clinton said in her speech to the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum in ...”

“... In the words of one Earth First! figurehead, their derring-do actions were undertaken in the ‘self-defence of the wild’, an intriguing syllogism. There was no plan by Earth Firsters in the US to ‘overthrow any social, political or economic system’.Earth First! in Britain came to the conclusion that the Americans were a bunch of rednecks, obsessed by ...”

“... HTP engine to use as a template. The Stentor was built with military money to power the Blue Steel self-propelled bomb. Blue Steel was designed to be released from a Vulcan over the wheatfields of Byelorussia and to fly the last 200 miles of its journey on its own. Over the target, a little hatch opened on the Blue Steel and the warhead dropped out – for no ...”