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“... up to the mid-1950s, with Sir Anthony Eden in a fit of pique brought on by Aitken. Suez ensues. Daniel Green presents a blunter Bunter – not William George, but his supposed great-grandfather William Frederick Augustus. Enumerating the moral flaws which delineate Frank Richards’s classic character, Patrick Weymouth mentions ...”

“... and sleep, and forget what month it is, and suffer the embarrassment of having their eyes turn green. As the story begins, McCrea’s 19-year-old protagonist, Niall Lenihan – ‘So few letters, all repeated and rearranged’ – has just taken up a scholarship in English and French at Trinity College Dublin. It’s a familiar world he enters: on his ...”

“... times that of Sunday worshippers in the Church of England. Each of us has some links with the green movement and each of these books reflect one or other of these concerns. Everyone outside the farming industry is outraged by its subsidised destruction of woodlands, hedges, wetlands and wildlife, as well as by the pollution of water sources by nitrogenous ...”

“... works on display – but I kept returning to the website, and I let the computer do its thing: the green recording light above my screen switched on and I could see myself projected into the gallery as visitors paced below. I was the watcher watched, watching myself being watched – a delirious mise en abyme.There’s nothing unfamiliar about remote video ...”

“... You remember the scenario: on 5 January 2003 a number of Algerians were arrested in Wood Green and charged with manufacturing ricin, a poison that had lingered in the public consciousness since the killing of a Bulgarian dissident on Waterloo Bridge in 1978 with a ricin-filled dart fired from an umbrella. When the news got out on 8 January a skull ...”

“... last month – can now download an application that displays a friend’s location as a bright green dot on a map. In 2009, phones running Google’s Android operating system will be able to show you in pictures how to reach that green dot while avoiding traffic snarl-ups and stray hurricanes; they’ll also tell you how ...”

“... Popper would like the Ahmadinejad letter. He has printed 1000 copies of Ulysses, bound in dark green paper, with the words alphabetically arranged. The first five pages are taken up with the letter ‘a’, but it soon takes off into pleasing Joycean babble. ‘Mamma mamma Mamma Mamma mammal MAMMAMUFFLERED mammary’: that sort of thing. The closing pages ...”

“... cause for alarm. The Jersey police were bemused to see the hooligans waiting for the light to turn green before crossing the road. The nearest thing to a disturbance came early on as a large contingent from Attac configured themselves so that the letters on the back of their jackets would read paradis fiscal, enfer social (the ‘o’ kept wandering off just ...”

“... and the role of natural gas in East-West relations (The Bridge, 2020). In 1995 he co-wrote, with Daniel Yergin, Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World, which laid out various scenarios for what then seemed a distant future. (They included full-blown territorial break-up, a resoundingly successful free-market transition, and the advent of an expansionist ...”

“... you start to think about the person who dreamed it up: the architect, Renzo Piano, who with a green felt tip on a napkin over lunch in Berlin sketched out what a newcomer to the London skyline might look like. He thought of masts and spires and all the things that lived along the Thames; the early drawings show experiments with a more sail-like ...”

“... Both this and the following statement are false. Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett’s book is well worth £9.95. One does not have to be a philosopher to realise that I have already gone further than a humble book-reviewer should. The value of the book under review is, you might think, a matter of opinion. Not so ...”

“... was open to salesmen from other countries (a representative from France’s Dassault Aviation, Daniel Frémont, who had just relocated to Sydney to negotiate a multi-year contract to supply the RAAF with a few squadrons of the Rafale fighter jet, was somewhat put out when he found that the door had secretly been shut in his face). F-35 customers now ...”

“... Ai’s 81-day imprisonment at a scale of 2:1: wax models of a miniature Ai being monitored by green-clad guards – you climbed up steps (following an excited queue) to peer in at him being interrogated, eating, sleeping, having a shower, sitting on the toilet. The man himself, demanding to be looked at: the installation seemed to be meant ...”

“... moment conscious that there co- exist a thousand others? I flinched when the tongue of the thin green snake flickered as I slid through the hedge; American milk tasted different, while in blurry black-and-white an eager villain heaved his shield at Fluid-Man, who changed, chuckling aloud, into mist or stream, or slanting rain. I saw, amazed, a cartoon ...”

“... to drive back to the Midwest, where Lily – as per her request – has been buried in a ‘green cemetery’: no gravestones, no markers, no rupture of the trees or landscape, with the bodies just becoming part of the earth. When Finn reaches the spot, ‘there was some rustling of leaves behind him. He heard a voice say: “I was hoping you’d get ...”