“... accommodation and clothes, gets a cheque for £20. The owner of the Best in Show winner, who may have spent far more, gets £200 and a replica trophy.Crufts has its own shops, which include My Life as a Dog, Dog Only Nose, The Little Dog Laughed. It has products and services that you won’t find anywhere else: post-castration or post-death semen ...”

“... each state is authorised to ‘appoint’ electors ‘in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct’. Since the mid-19th century the legislature of every state has ceded this role to the wider electorate. But could a state legislature shift the benign course of democratisation into reverse? According to Lessig and Seligman, nothing in the ...”

“... survived the millennium, even if a melancholy Japanese sociologist suspects that modernity itself may be ending. California has split into different states, and a host of new religions have sprung up, including a trailer-camp video-sect who believe the television screen is a kind of ‘perpetually burning bush’. In Los Angeles the wealthy shop in exclusive ...”

“... officials celebrated Israel’s technological capabilities as proof of its military supremacy. In May 2023, Eyal Zamir, the director general of the Ministry of Defence, boasted that the country was on the verge of becoming an ‘AI superpower’.All the hype stifled a number of warnings from establishment figures, including Michael Milshtein, head of IDF ...”

“... uselessness of his knowledge – the literary equivalent of a land acknowledgment. This fretting may come to be seen as an artefact of its time, as marginal as the medium delivering it. Small Rain is, among other things, a lament. The narrator sees signs of the rise of right-wing politics in the gun rack of the contractor renovating his house and in his ...”

“... for British humour, history and literature. The eponymous hero of his previous novel, Tyll (2017), may be a German magician, tightrope-walker and trickster, but for a time he serves at the court of the ‘winter queen’, Elizabeth (wife of Friedrich and daughter of James VI of Scotland), who’s a theatre enthusiast and consoles Shakespeare on the death of ...”

“... degree had been in ‘moral sciences’, i.e. philosophy), as ‘the form under which the mind may most clearly and freely contemplate the human situation’. Basil Willey, Quiller-Couch’s successor as King Edward VII Chair of English Literature, transformed the English Moralists course into a general intellectual history of England between the 17th and ...”

“... but quite possibly potent new party, the idea that socialists should stick it out inside Labour may finally be losing its allure. Both these parties are likely to have leverage at Westminster if the next election produces a hung Parliament. It’s also hard to imagine a contemporary politician of any party producing a collection as wide-ranging and ...”

“... to abandon King’s pacifistic integrationism in favour of militant black nationalist rhetoric.In May 1966, Lewis was initially re-elected as chair of SNCC. But after some members expressed dissatisfaction, another vote was taken in which Carmichael prevailed. This wasn’t altogether unexpected. Carmichael’s faction believed that Lewis was insufficiently ...”

“... yes? And all of this is true of time, too, not only sound. Vibrations from the past or future may also be received, perhaps also through the teeth. Or through your pen, the poet as seismographer.Anamnesis has a few meanings: in Platonic philosophy it’s the remembrance of innate knowledge acquired before birth; in medicine it’s the word for a ...”

“... the early 1930s, is one example among many: Mr Fitzgerald: If you want to write modest things, you may be able to turn out one collection of short stories … [but] there is just no comparison. I am a professional writer, with a huge following. I am the highest paid short story writer in the world. I have at various times dominated – Mrs Fitzgerald: It ...”

“... whole, prescient and generous) ‘Letter to the Nation’ last year; it happens to contain what may be the largest petroleum reserves in the world. This is the scene into which Yeltsin flicked his match on 26 August, threatening new frontiers. It would be wrong to attribute any deep-lying Russian chauvinism to him. He has used national sentiment to dislodge ...”

“... Rossetti in 1871, it became his sole property and permanent home later. In 1938 his daughter May left it to the University on certain conditions, but her wills were a mess and in the end the University let it furnished on condition that it should be open to members of the University and Morris-students. I had never been there; it is near Lechlade on the ...”

“... Among the Jews there was never the confidence to express verbally the depths of hostility they may well have felt. They were, for good or bad, too rational. What hostility they permitted themselves to feel was, paradoxically, directed at themselves. What has preoccupied me, and continues to perturb me, is this anti-semitism directed at oneself, an ancient ...”

“... for an hour and a half: ‘I hope some day to enjoy your offeecial acquaintance. Ad interim, if I may be pardoned that expression, I shall give you this betel-box, which is highly valuable article and cost me two rupees only four years ago.’ Mookerjee delivers his long speech to Kim in ‘volleying drifts of English’ after having had a ‘huge ...”