“... Shaw’s Ragnarok (1926), in which the French attack London with gas and fire-bombs, while their black African allies – fictional relations of those that had caused such resentment in Germany when France occupied the Ruhr – wait in the countryside to rape and slaughter the fleeing Londoners. In Neil Bell’s Valiant Clay (1934), the entire world is lost ...”

“... in the wings: Richard Hell, Iggy Pop, the Ramones. It really was, as the old cliché has it, that black and white. There was no commando unit of primpy stylists for Smith in 1975 – just her, Mapplethorpe and (as related in her 2010 memoir, Just Kids) a few quick shots one afternoon as the New York sun began to dip. One of the reasons the resulting image was ...”

“... on the disease through saliva during his final acting job in Dynasty, which required him to kiss Linda Evans. The producers couldn’t understand why he only wanted to give her a tiny peck rather than the passionate embrace the script called for. After his death in October 1985, aged 59, Taylor planned Hudson’s memorial service and sent a red rose to each ...”

“... and would record at Gold Star Studios on Santa Monica Boulevard. And for the equivalent of the Black-Cherokee-Irish lead vocalist Ronnie Bennett he would choose … himself. ‘I wanted to be a girl in my voice,’ he once said, ‘I wanted to sing like a girl. Not consciously, but it was all figured out in my brain, waiting for me to do it.’ So there it ...”

“... rape of a young woman called Gal Abdoush, memorialised in the article as ‘the woman in the black dress’, was repudiated by her family after publication. Schwartz, the Intercept has since reported, is a former Israeli military intelligence official. In an interview on an Israeli podcast, she said she had been initially reluctant to take on the ...”

“... at a donkey, but instead killed the 12-year-old girl who was sitting on it. Explosives from the black bag were laid on top of the donkey. It wasn’t long before he cracked. At a checkpoint in Jenin, his commanding officer asked him to search an elderly Palestinian man. Later he would claim that the man was a cousin, though he had never seen him before. No ...”