“... duty to take this course,’ Pankhurst informed Asquith, ‘and I shall not give way, although it may end in my death.’ On 20 June, the front page of the Woman’s Dreadnought, the weekly newspaper Pankhurst had begun publishing a few months earlier, carried her shawl-clad, Madonna-like photograph under the banner headline ‘IS SHE TO DIE?’ Asquith, no ...”

“... has borrowed from monetarist and Lucasian thinking. As the Stanford economist John Taylor – who may not be Blinder’s kind of new Keynesian, but is a new Keynesian nonetheless – put it, ‘the rational expectations hypothesis is by far the most common expectations assumption used in macroeconomic research today.’ Taylor even claims that the origins of ...”

“... never write ‘after they had had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes’. He may have been right not to pry into the nooks and crannies of his own mind, since his remarkable capacity not to acknowledge what his writing was really about must have been part of what enabled him to produce it. In interviews he would act surprised when asked ...”

“... at Lincoln’s Inn. (Donne and his younger brother, Henry, began their studies at Oxford, and may have spent time at Cambridge, but there was a law barring Catholics from formal admission to the ranks of either university.) At Lincoln’s Inn, Donne quickly established a reputation for himself, not as a carefully reared Catholic, but as a gifted (if ...”

“... battles of the First World War, had been summoned to join a desperate French government in late May 1940. The French armies were in full retreat, and on 10 June the government abandoned Paris, initially for Tours. Six days later, Paul Reynaud resigned as prime minister and passed the leadership to Pétain. Jackson describes with verve the chaos that ...”

“... hours of cigarette-squashing and clock-dismantling, an effortless instant. Replicas of the earring may be purchased in the museum shop.The museum logo is a butterfly and, in the scene with the butterfly earring, Füsun is 18 and the narrator is 30. I don’t usually care for Nabokov references and I’m not crazy about butterflies, but I found The Museum of ...”

“... He promised to follow up with the DWP, but died not long after Pring spoke to him, in May 2024. His obituaries claim that the assessments he pioneered ‘focused on rehabilitation, reskilling and support for people with disabilities’. While Aylward insisted that the quality of assessments was the problem, his biopsychosocial model of disability ...”

“... how easily his poetry could become a mellifluous soporific. Just as we ‘dream of blossomed May’ in the ‘chill thaw’ of February, so the ‘hapless lover’s dull shame sinks/Away sometimes in day-dreams, and he thinks/No more of yesterday’s disgrace and foil.’ The disgrace was personal. By the time he was writing the poem, the Red House was ...”

“... news media at all has risen from 8 per cent to 30 per cent. Many of the people in this group may be using social media to follow celebrities, cooking or DIY accounts, or influencers talking about fashion or wellness. But a significant number will be regularly exposed to an algorithmically filtered vision of society that stokes resentments.We are ...”

“... first time I ever really felt myself as an American.’ But she didn’t fully feel American. This may be the reason Festac’s projection of itself as representative of a ‘pan-African nation’ was so attractive to her. She didn’t feel separate from the people she photographed:I was part of the whole thing. I don’t call it capturing an image. I don’t ...”

“... the US has attempted to control or track guns, its efforts have often gone spectacularly wrong. It may not be much remembered abroad, but many Mexicans recall Operation Fast and Furious. In 2009, ATF agents watched young men buy large numbers of pistols and AK-47-style guns in Arizona. Instead of arresting them, they wanted to see where the guns went when they ...”

“... Holland. In fact, one of the most notorious London auctions of the 1830s was devoted to them. On 7 May 1835, Samuel Sotheby began his sale of what he described as ‘many original and unpublished manuscripts, and printed books with MS annotations, by Philipp Melancthon [sic]’, an erudite Renaissance Hellenist, more eirenic and less bold than his close friend ...”

“... War,’ he wrote. ‘Now, forty years on, Briggs’s very different Social History of England may in its turn stand as a more robust requiem for a world of welfare state decency destroyed by Thatcher.’ Today, as universities falter and plutocratic inequality towers over Asa’s England, will anyone draw a new Map of ...”

“... character was inspired by the case of Nafissatou Diallo, a maid at a New York hotel, who in May 2011 alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, had assaulted and attempted to rape her when she came to clean his suite. It transpired that Diallo had lied on her asylum application and made irregular financial ...”

“... to which foids consign men they don’t take seriously. ‘The ideology of the manosphere may be particularly attractive to white, heterosexual men because it appeals to and reinforces their sense of aggrieved entitlement,’ Kennedy-Kollar writes. ‘Their dissatisfaction and anger stem, ultimately, from the feeling that they are being denied ...”