“... When​ the conspiracy theorists, diehard Trumpers and (white) natalists gathered in London in May for the UK National Conservatism Conference, one fascinating sideshow was the brawl over the carcass of Margaret Thatcher. A few weeks before the event, Ryan Bourne, an economist at the libertarian Cato Institute, had warned those attending the conference against ‘importing the worst American narratives into British politics’ and in the process abandoning Thatcher’s free market legacies ...”

“... along as a manager of government debt until it was finally wound up in 1853.The South Sea Company may have proved an embarrassing liability, but other companies generated the transoceanic flows of information on which imperial strategy increasingly depended. To talk up their contributions to the Enlightenment might seem like praising BP or the Sacklers for ...”

“... Stalin Worker ME …That ‘ME’ was on no account to be confused with Hughes himself. While this may have mollified McPherson and her supporters, it inevitably led to denunciations from left-wing papers and accusations of cowardice. And it was in the wake of this controversy that the FBI opened a file on him as a potential danger to the ...”

“... the wind dry them on all sides. If all goes well, they can be taken home, maybe even by the end of May, and made into a rounded peat stack with a herringbone pattern that will repel the wind and rain.Although I didn’t grow up doing this, a whiff of peat smoke stirs something in me, something that doesn’t care about falling into cliché because the smoke ...”

“... experience of standing at the crossroads of the ancient city, where it seems possible that someone may appear at any minute. ‘The very semblance of life in this place,’ she wrote, ‘makes one all the more sad at its eternal silence.’The artistic possibilities of vulcanology expanded with the eruptions of the 1790s. In a period of experiment that would ...”

“... a fine equivalent to £4000 today – a paltry price for the dozen killings she aided, abetted and may well have ordered. One of those was the murder by Jerry Richardson, a Mandela United coach, of the 14-year-old activist Stompie Moeketsi, on the suspicion that he was an informer. ‘I slaughtered him like a goat,’ Richardson testified in court. ‘I put ...”

“... Scottish home rule, a cause inherited from Radical Liberalism, was also abandoned. When, in May 1924, George Buchanan, the ILP MP for Glasgow Gorbals, introduced a Private Members’ Bill on the issue, it was talked out by Conservative backbenchers. Buchanan, backed by his fellow Clydesiders, pleaded with MacDonald to grant additional parliamentary ...”

“... which erupted into the Spanish Civil War.’The Cold War’s chief political accomplishment may well have been the end of the international solidarity formed in the fight against fascism. National and even regional lefts persisted, but in isolation proved vulnerable to what Vincent Bevins has called ‘the Jakarta method’, in reference to the purge of ...”

“... outside Pollokshields Library. Stephens had decided to canvass in Kenmure Street, which in May 2021 was the scene of a mass protest when the Home Office attempted to deport two Sikh men at the beginning of Eid. A photograph of Stephens in the thick of it and wielding a megaphone was prominent in the Muslim leaflet. He swaggered a bit as we approached ...”

“... can be violent. It can be so even if it adheres scrupulously to the rule of law. While the ideal may sometimes seem our best hope for guidance through troubled times, it is, as Waldron says, not the only star in our constellation of ...”

“... 150,000 people are enslaved in scamming compounds across Cambodia. In Myanmar the figure may be as high as 120,000; there are tens of thousands more in Laos and Thailand. They have been brought from the villages of Xinjiang, the slums of Manila and Nairobi, the secondary schools of the Czech Republic. Scamming is no less grotesque an example of ...”

“... in blood’. Ebbutt concluded that ‘in influential and reasonable circles [in Berlin], the view may be heard that war, especially in continental Europe, is a natural, almost inevitable thing, and that next time Germany has every expectation of having the means to win and every intention of winning.’ He predicted that war might begin in ‘five or six ...”

“... of speaking. Sometimes the spirits don’t use human speech (they are not human, after all): they may speak in whistles, buzzing sounds, rhythms, growls and yelps. The same is true of spirit possession: in Haitian vodou, every lwa that enters the possessed speaks in a different voice and has a different character. The possessed person exhibits the personality ...”

“... embourgeoisify the proletariat’, while for Giaime it’s a straight run from the mid-1950s to May 1968 with Bardot striking out ahead. But there must have been an intervening stage in which doubts about the triumph of national reconstruction were appearing like cracks in a piece of commemorative porcelain, even as older anxieties about defeat and betrayal ...”

“... XVI chief among them) who had failed to reform themselves. In a Commons debate on 6 May 1791, Burke attempted to speak on the ‘horrible and nefarious consequences flowing from the French Idea of the Rights of Man’ but was shouted down. Fox seconded the motion that called his old mentor out of order. In his own speech, Fox insisted that the ...”