“... they don’t require or want treatment, shouldn’t be given it because it does them no good and may do them harm. This isn’t what this set of patients themselves believe, and though there is little concrete evidence that the diagnosis is of benefit in cases where no intervention is required, there is also little evidence of harm, beyond the fact that the ...”

“... response to the assassination in Mein Kampf: ‘I was at first seized with worry that the bullets may have been shot from the pistols of German students, who, out of indignation at the heir apparent’s continuous work of Slavisation, wanted to free the German people from this internal enemy.’ When he heard that the assassin was a Serb, ‘a light shudder ...”

“... suggests, the primary class division of 21st-century capitalism.The scale of this transformation may be overstated. The family has long been a key organisational unit of capitalist social relations; the corporation persists, and public asset managers remain more powerful than private firms; and there have always been wealthy dynasties, though profitable new ...”

“... of all Liverpool’s problems, though her monetarist experiment (which I discussed in the LRB of 8 May) exacerbated them by doing huge damage to Britain’s industry in the early 1980s. Her sub-Powellite rhetoric – ‘People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture’ – did nothing for race ...”

“... She had nothing to do with the clandestine distribution of her work – ‘the higher-up editors may have been against me, but the people beneath them had good taste’ – but it is of a piece with the harried, furtive character of the stories, scraps of narrative exchanged in the dark. She told Laird that her goal when writing was ‘that the story will ...”

“... FATF is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla of anti-money laundering – or AML – activities. You may think that’s already too many acronyms, but brace yourself, because the AML focus of the FATF has led to the regulatory measures KYC (know your customer), SAR (suspicious activity reports), CTR (currency transaction reports), PEP (politically exposed ...”

“... hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, and his political model may serve as something of an inspiration too. Trump’s business has always operated organisationally like a prototypical Mafia, with a tight circle of family, friends and flunkies, bearing little resemblance to a modern corporation. As Masha Gessen put it in the ...”

“... rejection of cultural pessimism, and they shared a reverence for traditional Western culture: they may have expressed ‘radical styles of will’, but they also invoked the authority of canonical critics. In their writings on photography, both drew inspiration from John Berger, moved, if not quite persuaded, by his insistence on the medium’s insurrectionary ...”

“... the depiction of autocrats in Cameroonian cartoons to Christian eschatology to posthumanism. We may not be sure where all this leads us, but Mbembe has never been interested in supplying easy answers to difficult questions.In Germany and France, Mbembe has (against his will) become the public face of an ill-defined ‘postcolonial left’. This isn’t ...”

“... hatred mean? ‘Look,’ says Bashir, ‘we understand reality. Reality is the State of Israel. We may not like it but we cannot change it. I have been in prison, in Ansar Three, where there are thousands of Palestinian political prisoners. Even there the vast majority of people would accept a solution based on compromise – a two-state solution. You talk ...”

“... know at what point Peter decided to wage war on French-theory-derived Marxism. That evening may have been one turning-point. As a critic writing for the general press, it would have been professional and financial suicide for him to have adopted it. In that sense the choice was not open to him as it was to the people he opposed who held academic ...”

“... them braving death from wild animals by trekking through the Kruger National Park. All told, there may be as many as four million displaced persons in South Africa, including many resourceful and educated Africans coming from all corners of the continent, drawn by the bright lights of the South. The notion that the country is up for grabs and open to the four ...”

“... teeth, in the hope that some of them will thrive. (‘Don’t talk to me about unemployment. They may have been unemployed but they could afford expensive motor-bikes, and two of them had cigarettes hanging out of their mouths.’) The narrative, after several pages of convoluted actuarial prose, comes to life with a burst of scene-setting worthy of Enid ...”

“... was reading an essay by Joseph Lee in a book called The Irish Parliamentary Tradition. (This title may seem like an elaborate oxymoron, but it was the sort of book published at that time.) The essay was about 1782 and Grattan’s Parliament, an important moment in Irish history, according to our school books. Parnell, Roy Foster points out in an essay in Paddy ...”

“... of it. On my pay – then, I think, 13 shillings a day – this was quite a serious mulct, and I may have shown that I was a bit upset. So later he made his kind of amends. The party continued in his hotel room, where we were joined by some girls, provenance unknown – he had a knack of surrounding himself with young women, not whores, but willing on terms ...”