“... On​ 24 January, US Central Command, which oversees military operations across the Middle East and West Asia, issued a press release reporting that the USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, had shot down two missiles fired by Yemeni Houthis at a US-owned container ship, the MV Maersk Detroit, in the Gulf of Aden ...”

“... sterilised. He cited budgetary concerns and the likelihood of more frequent hurricanes.In November 2019, in a statement published in the journal BioScience, more than 11,000 scientists working in fields other than climate science declared a climate emergency: ‘The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected … It is ...”

“... ambitious essay The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border in the Mind of America (2019), the regime of militarised, racist policing on the US-Mexico border is the all but inevitable heir to the now vanished ‘frontier’ – a physical barrier replacing a shifting and, for much of America’s existence, expanding boundary. Grandin quotes a ...”

“... version trailed in dire precursors like the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on 6 January 2021. It’s from among such riled-up conspiracists and militiamen, according to Walter, that the next American civil war will come, as home-grown bands of right-wing terrorists and xenophobic guerrillas infest the democratic liberal order of the United ...”

“... week of December the executive caved in on fuel tax. Philippe announced that the rise, due in January, would be put on hold for six months. The news was greeted with contempt by the gilets jaunes and the following day word came down from the president’s office that the fuel tax hike was no longer part of the ...”

“... essential services, though the relationship between control and ownership has yet to be defined.In January 2009, a border dispute between Ukraine and Russia led to a rapid rise in European gas prices. Ed Miliband, then energy secretary under Gordon Brown, went on the Today programme to reassure listeners that Britain had a ‘diverse range of sources where our ...”

“... man facing deportation to Jamaica. The case rested on AB’s criminal history. He was convicted in 2019 of offences relating to the supply of heroin and cocaine and sentenced to more than four years in youth custody. While he was in prison, the Home Office made a deportation order against him. He appealed.The Home Office had a strong case. The 2014 Immigration ...”

“... by brazen corruption, set in long before Covid, not to mention the Ukraine war. Since October 2019 the country has experienced a major rise in poverty rates and a 90 per cent drop in the value of the lira. Not long after the Russian invasion Banque du Liban was failing to deliver payments for imported wheat. Supplies of bread started to run down. By ...”

“... not a murderer,’ Rubenhold writes in her prologue. She took the same approach in The Five (2019), her book about the women killed by Jack the Ripper, which concentrated on their lives before autumn 1888. Crippen may be the name forever associated with the ‘North London cellar murder’, but here he is treated by Rubenhold as one character in ‘an ...”

“... Maloney, Rita Nelson and Hectorina Maclennan, were in their twenties. They had died between January and March. All of them had their heads covered with pieces of cloth and diapers between their legs.Ethel Christie’s body was found under the floorboards (she’d died in December, aged 54), and after a bit of digging, the skeletons of two more women ...”

“... they had recently been active together with their usernames. This requirement was extended in 2019 to fourteen million people who apply for US visas every year, and early in 2025 the Department of Homeland Security announced that soon it would also extend to millions of people who had already been admitted to the country but were seeking ‘adjustment of ...”

“... in the first half of this year, the branch secretary sent out just three notices. The first was in January, when he posted a ‘Notice seeking opinions on representatives from the Beijing branch for the Twentieth Party Congress’. This is an essential grassroots level process conducted ahead of every party congress. The Twentieth Party Congress will be held ...”

“... Mike Johnson; the failed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who called the 6 January insurrection an ‘inside job’; the former Australian prime ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott; the Blue Labour founder, Maurice Glasman, who attended Trump’s inauguration and in January told Steve Bannon’s ...”

“... about other hostage situations. I remembered Hypercacher [an attack on a Paris supermarket in January 2015]. I thought, it’s my turn.Laura, aged 37:I was hit by six bullets. Even today reading my medical reports, I am overwhelmed … How could I comprehend that my body would lose its capacity to move?I have to relearn how to breathe, drink, pee. My hand ...”

“... that the UK leave the EU by ministerial fiat rather than parliamentary authority, and again in 2019 when Elizabeth II was required by Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament for no recognised reason.In his recent Hamlyn lectures, now amplified and annotated, John Baker, the doyen of historians of English law, set out to compare the laws and legal systems of ...”