“... space. Anyone who has flown into Venice from the west will have noticed the unusually rectilinear field systems (Google Earth will show you too), a legacy of Roman surveyors two millennia ago, and far from unique: Roman conquerors and colonists left this type of centuriation behind wherever they went. Roman milestones and boundary markers are staples of dusty ...”

“... culture. Although the study of British retailing is, as she explains, a flourishing academic field, Victorian consumerism has been a neglected topic, despite the wealth of material on merchandising, advertising, public transportation, tea shops and the theatre. While her relationship to this material appears to be strictly intellectual – she mentions ...”

“... plot lines.’ The aim he and his 97 contributors have set themselves is to ‘make the literary field longer, larger and deeper’. And yet the structure of the collection tells a different story. After some preliminary throat-clearing, the first volume moves swiftly to address the topic of the novel’s polygenesis (the ancient Greek novel, medieval French ...”

“... this training has no effect upon a people, the American energy will continually demand a wider field for its exercise.’ Commentators before and after Turner have also found in mobility – especially its volitional form, travel – the genius of modernity and the signature of the sovereign self. The love of cars (and the hatred of them) often comes with ...”

“... the Convention were much keener to meet Moore than they were to meet Howard Dean, who had led the field among the candidates for the nomination until he found himself coming over a bit crazed on television. Moore spent much of the week sitting next to Jimmy Carter in a private part of the convention centre’s dress circle. John Kerry’s liberalism has had ...”

“... be consulted on the decision? ‘These are people who have grown up saying, “Yes, sir,”’ Andrew Bacevich, a retired career officer in the US army, replied when I put the question to him. (In his recent speech following the death of four American soldiers in Niger, Kelly essentially said that the best Americans are lying in the ground of Arlington ...”

“... unfair to the OTC. It, too, was a pacifist organisation: as witness the dummy rifles we carried on field exercises. ‘How about the bayonets?’ I asked, because they were real enough. He dropped his eyes, I remember, and said that he would let me have an answer. He never did. It was the silliest argument I ever won. It set me on the course of dissent. What I ...”

“... It was the brainchild of Léopold Senghor, Senegal’s president, who saw the arts as a field of struggle. Two subsequent festivals took place, in Algiers in 1969 and Lagos in 1977, and their history bears out Senghor’s claim in a way he did not intend: they have faded into obscurity.While studying and teaching in Paris in the 1930s, Senghor and a ...”

“... paper in 1981, and went his own way a couple of years later, after a row with the incoming editor, Andrew Neil. After the Gulf War (1990-91), he spent much longer periods away from conflict zones. He travelled to religious festivals in India and photographed the landscape around his home in Somerset, going on to get occasional assignments from NGOs: the Aids ...”

“... havens, as defended by Geoffrey Cox, the former attorney general (for a fee of £1000 an hour). Andrew Haldane, the former chief economist at the Bank of England, has rightly argued that Britain’s traded companies are cannibalising themselves. A report by the economists Adrienne Buller and Benjamin Braun earlier this year found that in 2020, aggregate ...”

“... to leave your apartment, people are renting out their pets. Dinosaur costumes are everywhere. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, and his brother Chris, a CNN journalist, are vying for their mother’s affections on live TV. We’ve learned that Westerners don’t like to wear face masks but do like to stockpile toilet paper. We already buy in ...”

“... many rational thinkers, but Vestiges prolonged its influence for a generation. The experiments of Andrew Crosse, whereby mites were ‘spontaneously generated’ by the application of electricity to stones, were given much prominence in Vestiges; and short shrift by any serious scientist. Even if the spuriousness of such evidence was far less obvious in the ...”

“... that chapter, and think it should be reinstated in current editions, but it is probable that Andrew Millar the bookseller persuaded Fielding that the episode interfered too much with the desirable ‘probability’ and ‘truth to nature’ that had become the new realism. D.H. Lawrence’s works went through different versions depending on the state of ...”

“... adventurer James Skinner, who built it ‘in fulfilment of a vow made while lying wounded on the field of battle’. (Skinner’s equally remarkable contemporary Begum Samru – a Kashmiri dancing-girl turned army commander – built a Catholic church in similar style at Sardhana, with two Wren-like spires flanking the dome.) Skinner did not come seamlessly ...”

“... hit a lung and the heart, causing massive internal bleeding. He had no chance of survival. Captain Andrew Cox dispatched a helicopter to pick up the injured man and bring him back to base. The helicopter carried him to camp Abu Naji where he was ventilated, but his pupils became fixed and at 00.50 hrs on 2 May 2005, surrounded by medical officers, Guardsman ...”