“... about Knox constantly – about her poor hygiene, her promiscuity and her general weirdness. This may not add up to a solid case for the prosecution, but it adds up to something. Yet journalists have been as uninhibited in proclaiming Knox’s innocence as they were in condemning her. The American novelist Nathaniel Rich wrote a long piece for Rolling Stone ...”

“... from the boys at home without paying anything back; Plorn refused to return £800 to Henry. He may have reasoned that the money was a fraction of what had been spent on Henry’s education, in which case he had probably got his sums right. If we summarise the central plot of the avowedly autobiographical David Copperfield with attention to the patterns of ...”

“... mind our journeys were filled with endings, along with the perhaps concluding notion that nature may be larger than memory. The hills of the Scottish Borders seemed to say so, as did the trees around Abergavenny and the stones of the Aran Islands.It was about seven in the morning when we set out. Karl opened his door in Chelsea and I stepped inside the house ...”

“... favourite to succeed Howard. The Conservatives knew that they were seen, in the words of Theresa May, Duncan Smith’s party chairwoman, as the ‘nasty party’, but were too worried about upsetting the ‘core vote’ to do much about it. Hague campaigned on a platform of tax cuts, hostility to the EU, and resentment of asylum seekers; few Tory staffers ...”

“... be familiar with [an appreciative hum in the audience] entitled "Cnidaria". For those of you who may be unfamiliar with my project, the long poem is entitled "Cnidaria” because it is based on this particular phylum of aquatic invertebrates (better known as coelenterates) that includes Hydra, jellyfish, sea anemones and corals. What specifically interests ...”

“... disease. For a while nanny preserved the fiction that she saw nothing, knew nothing, and she may indeed have been so absorbed in the great news that this was no pretence, but I knew very well that this was something only my brother could have got away with. After a while, she lowered the paper as if to reason with my brother, who was now signalling to me ...”

“... hectares and 127,000 smallholders received 4.23 million hectares. What land reform has meant or may come to mean for Zimbabwe’s economy is still hotly disputed. Recently there have been signs that scholarly opinion is shifting. A study by Ian Scoones of Sussex University’s Institute of Development Studies – in collaboration with the Programme for Land ...”

“... the world as it is described by people with little or no regard for the facts. Obama and Rhodes may sometimes have found themselves on different sides of the struggle between what is and what ought to be, but they were always on the same side of the struggle between the world as it is and the world as they say it is. Both men were victims of character ...”

“... it would be Post’s fault when a communist uprising began in a ‘saturnalia of violence’ on May Day 1920. He foretold mass assassinations, the storming of government buildings, rivers of blood. It was excellent copy for the newspapers, but they turned against him when the day passed like any other. No President Palmer. Warren Harding campaigned on his ...”

“... is what moves his naturalism beyond pessimistic determinism. The actions and circumstances of man may be understood as a product of his biology and social environment, but through careful study of these forces we can choose to act in ways that counter them. Therefore, Zola’s naturalism not only holds that one can shape and change one’s fate, but that it ...”

“... Brexit but on a broad ideological-political platform, and his support among working-class voters may have been higher than Brexit managed: some 70 per cent of those voting for him lacked a college degree. Nor was this the only populist outbreak in America that year, with Bernie Sanders proving a formidable challenger for the Democratic nomination from the ...”

“... than initially reported. Kyiv sacked its ombudsperson for human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, in May 2022, for inflating the numbers and harming Ukraine’s credibility.There were indisputably incidences of sexual violence during the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October. (Patten’s report interprets ‘conflict-related sexual violence’ according to the terms of ...”

“... Feeding the Ghosts (1997). He looks at the massacre partly from the point of view of the slave who may have survived being thrown overboard: in the novel, a young woman clambers back onto the ship and haunts the remainder of the voyage. In McLean’s installation, this figure, Mintah, walking behind three spirit guides whose heads are swathed in cloth dyed ...”

“... in ways that MGM and most of her husbands failed to do, or keeping her away from pills.Much as we may fantasise about comforting her, we will never know whether a happier Judy would have moved us as much. One of the great mysteries about Garland is the extent to which her vulnerability when performing was a calculated act. She seems to have had an ...”

“... it and end up with systems capable of creating increasingly capable artificial intelligence. This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far.Fourth scenario: AI turns out to be what Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor call a ‘normal technology’. It is an important invention, just as electricity or the internet are ...”