“... ma’am.’‘Sir, you’re doing well. These are all good things.’Next was a teenager in a white leather jacket, accompanied by his attorney. He’d missed an appearance the previous week. ‘He was feeling very unsafe living with his father, so he moved to his mother, then contacted me to say he could come in, but –’‘I appreciate you may be ...”

“... with companies or other commercial organisations, with the MPs Michael Grylls and Sir Jerry Wiggin holding as many as ten such positions each. Despite all the opportunities for financial gain within the rules, there have even been examples of a willingness to take a more covert approach to the business of making money. During the 1989-90 ...”

“... realised that they had ‘two different Blakes’. McClure spoke of it in an interview with Jerry Aronson: ‘Allen has a Blake who is a Blake of prophesy, a Blake who speaks out against the dark satanic mills. My Blake is a Blake of body and of vision. Blake was such a powerful, such a great being that it’s possible for every one of us to have an ...”

“... of helper who may have been a poor relation. I also remember a plump middle-aged Irish nanny in a white nurse’s cap looking after my baby sister and a taller and somewhat younger nanny in a felt hat who took me to Victoria Park to feed the deer. The new house was at 78 Teignmouth Road, NW2, built around 1910 and located two-thirds of the way between ...”

“... you. The cursor returned and clicked on the second column. Presently a thing like a solid grey-white cauliflower rose until it was a mountain covering all south Manhattan. This is how we bury you. It was the most open atrocity of all time, a simple demonstration written on the sky which everyone in the world was invited to watch. This is how much we hate ...”

“... suits me to perfection,’ and his comparison was with the front being broken through by old Jerry. Dilworth itemises the habitués of Northwick Lodge in its palmy days: two long-term residents … (a female violin teacher and an old lady named Miss Evans, both of whom Jones liked) … Miss Knott, an impoverished upper-class spinster; a diamond merchant ...”

“... the Syrens, or the gun fire preliminary, is to have a good Piss: after that you are ready for the Jerry.’ At the end of the year, he finished the third of his Four Quartets, ‘The Dry Salvages’. Now he had only ‘Little Gidding’ to write.While this last of his quartets is devotional, it is also a poem written in wartime. As he told Hayward, ‘we had ...”

“... rankings’. The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do ...”

“... him say: ‘There is nothing, no problem, except in a small pocket in Fallujah.’ I heard Colonel Jerry Durrant say, after a meeting with Ramadi tribal sheikhs: ‘A lot of these guys have read history, and they said to me the government in Baghdad is like the Vichy government in France during World War Two.’ I heard a journalist say: ‘I am housebound. I ...”

“... over to watch the Navy Day celebrations on 15 August, attended by King Carol, suntanned in his white uniform after sailing the Mediterranean on his yacht; and perhaps they drifted away for an ice cream just as he warned that those who loved peace should know that frontiers once drawn cannot be changed without danger of a world cataclysm.Cataclysm came the ...”

“... fingering him as the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, who in 2008 published a white paper describing a ‘peer-to-peer electronic cash system’ – a technology Satoshi went on to develop as bitcoin. Reading the articles on his laptop, Wright knew his old life was over. By this point, cameras and reporters were outside his former home and ...”

“... meet Bush in Washington. The effect of their conversation was immediate. Annan was summoned to the White House, and 24 hours later had issued an invitation to the two sides in Cyprus plus the Guarantor Powers to join him for talks in New York. There, he explained that, to cut through previous difficulties, if there were once again no agreement, the UN plan ...”