“... his conservative military outlook. Contact was established thanks largely to Jean Moulin, and in May 1943 the Conseil national de la Résistance (CNR) was set up, bringing together all the main Resistance movements with de Gaulle as its head, even if this was something of a marriage of convenience. For the Resistance groups, alignment with de Gaulle brought ...”

“... atmosphere and its pressure have not always been the same, then the size and shape of the organism may likewise have been subject to manifold changes.’ Cosmos analyses the features of the natural world, the relationships between them, and the power of human perception to appreciate them, whether in science or art or religion. Humans also had the capacity to ...”

“... from the West’s perspective, other than through its Ottoman rulers. The term ‘Middle East’ may have emerged after 1918, but that didn’t imply any confidence about how to shape it. It is arguable that in 1914 the British idea of the region was less coherent than it had been a hundred years before. In the early 19th century most knowledge of it had ...”

“... a supporter of Israel well before I was a United States senator … If I forget thee, o Israel, may I cut off my right hand.’ Ilhan Omar was accused of antisemitism for pointing up the ‘political influence’ in the US ‘that says it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign country’, but Schumer and Booker made no secret of their allegiance and ...”

“... count of 397 was announced, 640 civilians evacuated to refugee camps … Such a fortnight’s work may be deemed representative.This is Truong Nhu Tang’s description of being on the receiving end of a B-52 attack: The concussive whump whump whump came closer and closer … Then, the cataclysm walked onto us, everyone hugged the earth – some screaming ...”

“... have been whorled or studded with consummate finesse, they deflect our questions: ‘Their meaning may have been partly realised by their makers in the time and thought invested in their creation.’Alongside the acts of occupation went acts of orientation: that is the standard claim about the culture of the era – affirmed as much by that vertical band on ...”

“... east, and a shoreline exposed to Irish and Norse raiders to the south and west. Their inhabitants may even have welcomed Norse settlers – there are about forty Norse placenames along the coast, including Borgue, from the Old Norse borg, ‘fortress’ – as reinforcements against the British and protectors against the settlers’ own Viking cousins.The ...”

“... would be for the Church, or the Church for the state. However, parts of the Field Day Anthology may simply assume that Catholicism is so natural as to require no special position, whereas Protestant orators, raving into a theological vacuum, are obvious exotics.If Protestantism looms larger than Catholicism, Nationalism looms larger than Unionism. The ...”

“... and ‘clay-thick with misery’, the poet falls silent yet again. There is nothing between May 1949 and January 1950. In this month, Larkin’s first really spectacular development takes place. In ‘At Grass’ the theme is still to do with ‘what has pleased and passed’, but the subject is thoroughly out there: retired racehorses perhaps plagued ...”

“... but didn’t know what it meant; that he thought he was but really he wasn’t. He thinks there may be something to be said for all these claims, but not enough, so the position he decides to take is that he was a Stalinist but that it remains to be seen what that meant. For him and the Italians of his generation, it meant the rescue of Europe from Nazism ...”

“... itself: where it came from, who it belonged to and the righteousness of its cause. Old Labour may have something to teach New Labour after ...”

“... think I had stolen the money, yet it also did not seem impossible.’ Not knowing what secrets she may be hiding, she develops a fear of being exposed: ‘I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary ...”

“... the horizon. Kavenna might have mentioned this as the probable origin of many delusory Thules; it may even underpin the Flat Earthers’ conviction that a great ice barrier forms the rim of the disc on which we all live. In any case, her own internal compass is evidently appeased by snow, ice and wintry desolation. But in her prose I miss the intense ...”

“... eruption of violence during a national strike for an eight-hour day. The strike, which began on 1 May 1886, was immediately joined by revolutionary socialists of an anarchist bent. It was particularly fierce in Chicago, where earlier strikes had been broken by the use of armed force, and hundreds, perhaps thousands of workers had formed militias in order to ...”

“... It is the land towards which we turn as the fountain of all our hopes; it is the land to which we may look with as true a patriotism as we do to this dear old England, which we love so much. This is an upmarket version of the proprietorial impulse described by Lawrence. The investigators of the Palestine Exploration Fund had the resources and ambition to ...”