“... while Ollo was picking daffodils with Michael and Nina, showed them how to make a bomb. Stalin may have saved Hitler’s life by signing the Soviet-German Pact, at which point the agents were stood down. Whatever excuses Kuczynski subsequently made for Moscow’s fascist alliance, Foote saw that the news hit her ‘like a thunderbolt’. Beurton and Foote ...”

“... has circulated widely. One of Hubbard’s biographers, an ex-Scientologist, told Urban that this may be the ‘last generation of Scientologists’. Hubbard anticipated the need to control his religion’s history, making it sensational, rapidly paced and thematically tidy. The only way to handle a journalist is to ‘give him a story that he thinks is a ...”

“... against Russia, quickly pivoted to the cost of living as the major issue of her campaign.This may set a precedent for the way the war in Ukraine translates into domestic politics in Europe. Even if parties are united in their condemnation of the invasion, this does not – and should not – end challenges to government policies by opposition parties. The ...”

“... In other words, they are lumpers rather than splitters; the risk, as Parry sees it, is that they may be offering only stereotypes of stereotypes. On the other hand, he shows us plenty of cases where the reality was even worse than the stereotype. The swank and swagger began with Sidney Smith, who seems to have been the first British officer to grasp that ...”

“... for her only by browbeating the poor woman out of her fondness for the music of Simple Minds. Rob may be a bit sad and infantile himself, but at least he’s not as far gone as these two. At least he has managed to find a way of turning his obsession into an act of communication. And so, at least he manages to get stable sex. Or did, until this morning. The ...”

“... as the most brilliant of his contemporaries at the bar:‘Do you not think that the African may well regard himself as oppressed and exploited by the white man?’        ‘Yes, in certain spheres of life.’        ‘And this is so whether he is a communist or non-communist?’        ‘Yes.’        ‘The black man ...”

“... There were Italian as well as German ‘executioners’. The annihilation of Europe’s Jews may have been conceived in Germany, but the entire continent was awash with perpetrators. What happened in Ukraine was so appalling, it’s easy to conclude that this part of ‘civilised Europe’ was fundamentally different. Easy, but not necessarily ...”

“... that the obscure Judy Geeson film showing on BBC2 might contain some nudity, the 1970s teenager may well have felt lonely and isolated. But as the existence of books like Offbeat and The Magic Box reveals, we were not alone. A whole generation of viewers (mostly but not exclusively men) grew up watching the films of this era on portable televisions or in ...”

“... and exacerbating poverty and competition at the margins. And however ugly ‘anti-cooliesm’ may have been, it was also an expression of anti-capitalism. To address the exploitation of the modern world, it’s necessary to confront its racial forms and the patterns of uneven development they seek to naturalise. If the ‘Chinese question’ was, like all ...”

“... for example, once dreamed the whole of Impressionism. As Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in May 1888, When good père Corot said a few days before he died: last night I saw in my dreams landscapes with entirely pink skies, well, didn’t they come, those pink skies, and yellow and green into the bargain, in Impressionist landscapes? All this is to say ...”

“... bars’ in many British clubs and dance halls during the war, ‘however convenient it may have been to blame white Americans for the[ir] introduction’. The Casino dance hall in Warrington was forced to shutter its doors after its manager refused to bar coloured servicemen from the club, as requested to by a US army officer. Shortly before the ...”

“... don’t think of their abortion any more because it doesn’t trouble them; the women who died and may still be dying. I haven’t had an abortion but my mother did, after the 1967 act came into force in England. She has Alzheimer’s now and can’t speak much any longer, so I can’t ask her about it. It’s a silence I can’t break, and I’m not even sure ...”

“... On 22 May​ , Ahmed Mohsen, an unemployed taxi driver, left his house in the Islamic State-controlled western part of Mosul to try to escape across the Tigris to the government-held eastern side of the city. He and his mother, along with ten other people, carried rubber tyres down to the river: most of them couldn’t swim, and they planned to tie them together to make a raft ...”

“... Sheetrock’) without furniture. I didn’t own so much as a lamp or a pillow and sheets. When May came around, I would stash everything I possessed in a trunk and slide it under the desk in my office; the bicycle I left chained up in a garage. My being there, in G (like Persephone’s), was actually a form of non-existence. Then in January I would unpack ...”

“... right of recall gives them a further advantage as a borrow becomes warmer: the short seller may get a phone call gently suggesting a higher borrow fee. To be a successful short seller you need therefore to understand what Chanos calls ‘the plumbing’ of lending. One of the partners in his firm, Kynikos Associates, has ‘been on [Wall] Street for ...”