“... about Reform in the 1790s turned out well in the long run. The same may be true of the 1980s. The young aspirants who have pinned their hopes to the SLD and electoral reform may include the Charles Grey of a great enactment in 2032. According to the polls, nearly half of Britain’s electors think the electoral system ‘unfair’. That was roughly how things ...”

“... Odetta becomes catatonic and is carted away to hospital; Lucia starts picking up and sleeping with young men who look a little like the visitor; and, most interestingly, Emilia returns to her native village and speaks to no one. She seems to feel this is the only right reaction to her horror at the thought that she might have a sexual life. She sits on a bench ...”

“... We Dance, fends off two gossip columnists, both played by Tilda Swinton, arranges for a couple of young stars to look as if they might be an item, and has several interrupted meetings with a man from Lockheed Martin who is offering him a high-level job, another relation to the heavens. Oh, and then there is the ostensible main business of the film. In the ...”

“... Downey Jr) leading the yeses (he’s just had a difficult encounter with the mother of a young man they accidentally killed in a preceding film). Both are reasonable positions, and we may, according to our own politics, think either is confirmed or denied by the bomb explosion that hits the UN session in Vienna where the accords are being signed. But ...”

“... the film he asks audiences to chant ‘I am a revolutionary.’) In the front row is a young woman who looks as if she likes Hampton but is sceptical about the performance. Afterwards she asks if he cares for poetry. He says he’s a man of action and poetry is just words. She says he was using words just now, and he starts to pay attention to ...”

“... wonder of our stage!’ His climactic description was elaborated in the Second Folio (1632) by the young John Milton: ‘Thou, in our wonder and astonishment/Hast built thyself a lasting monument.’ Historically, Shakespeare criticism begins with wonder, and that it should have returned there in these millennial times ought not to surprise us. This batch of ...”

“... way to dusty death’). Shakespeare continues to be important: later on, Fern tries to cheer a young man up by reciting a sonnet to him, the one she used as her wedding vow: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ the poem asks. Not really, is the answer. Summers fade, but people and poems are supposed to last for ever. Or, at least, the fading is ...”

“... was devoted to building up this collection, and for help in the enterprise he relied on several young men who were companions as well as paid assistants. He made his home at Lewes House, an elegant Georgian building in East Sussex, where he spent his time surrounded by art and men. His wealth came from America. Born in Massachusetts in 1860, Ned Warren was ...”

“... US, travelled to Vienna and returned as Dr Freud’s Wunderkind. Amazing social success for one so young. Strong influence on such older associates as Education, Government, Child-Rearing and the Arts, and a few raffish friends like Advertising and Criminology.   Complaint: Speaks of overwork, loss of confidence and inability to get provable results. Hears ...”

“... On​ every street in central Santiago, the face of Luisa Toledo, the mother of young revolutionaries killed during Pinochet’s dictatorship, stares down from fly-posters. Chile goes to the polls later this month with the far-right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast in the lead; Luisa Toledo, who died this summer, is a symbol of resistance ...”

“... and the wall is where Republican prisoners are shot. In the second story, ‘The Bedroom’, a young woman can’t bring herself to have her mad husband committed to a mental hospital, as her parents recommend, and the husband speaks of a metaphorical wall between himself and his wife. The narrator describes the man’s face as ‘walled up’, muré. We ...”

“... you could see what they were about. Nice views, appealing animals, snow scenes, the occasional young woman in varying quantities of folksy clothes: you knew where you were with pictures. ‘Captive Andromeda’ by Arthur Hill (1876). Confusingly, though, the one public building in Bournemouth you might visit in order to see what definitely seemed to ...”

“... but soft-spoken Lino Ventura, is placed by the commandant in a shed with five other inmates: one a young Communist, one a young dying Catholic and three people who claim they have been wrongly arrested – the reverse of resisters, in other words. Ventura thinks it is very shrewd of the commandant, a well-focused attack on ...”

“... George Michael​ died at the age of 53 on Christmas Day 2016; despite his success, it was hard not to think of what might have been. He was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on 25 June 1963 in East Finchley, London, to Jack Panos – a Greek Cypriot restaurant owner who had anglicised his name – and his English wife, Lesley Harrison ...”

“... of rebellion is depicted in many novels and films, from Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin to Michael Verhoeven’s The White Rose. Stauffenberg and the other conspirators of July 1944 understood that their plan to murder Hitler and stage a coup was unlikely to come off. Instead of success, there would be the recorded fact that they had tried. They played ...”