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“... bounty, however large, won’t make the sacrifice feel worthwhile.The work of the ethnographer Jeremy Morris offers a corrective to these simplified models. Where most social scientists, especially in the West, rely on shaky opinion polling and qualitative interviews to gauge Russian attitudes, Morris is a true ...”

“... a sneer. A person who worries about the end of civilisation and finds time to deride Ruskin and Morris as ‘the original champagne socialists’ may not have noticed the extent of the ruins all about him. Hensher is a reliable guide to the teaching of handwriting, which he picks up in the mid-19th century with the spread of copperplate in the US ...”

“... decline. Costive prose and a glut of obsequious apparatus would, he reckoned, have ‘left Marx or Morris speechless’. The tally in Contraventions is roughly even between contributors embedded in universities and those who aren’t: Ali, Watkins, the late Alexander Cockburn, Wypijewski, Tom Hazeldine. NLR’s editorial standards are demanding, and at least ...”

“... In Accounts and Drawings from Underground (2015), a collaboration with the anthropologist Rosalind Morris, he has drawn forty landscapes – charcoal with ink and what looks like gouache – on the pages of an accounts register kept by the East Rand Proprietary Mines Company in 1906. We can see a stretch of ground changing subtly or suddenly as if we were ...”

“... was depicted by Bosch or Zurbarán with orgasmic sadism. As Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris note in Standard Operating Procedure, Christian iconography places at its centre an implement of torture and, in the stigmata, offers an all too human scourge with which to flay flesh raw. Of course, millions of Christians and infidels have proved unable ...”

“... Attlee, the most effective champion of ordinary working people in Labour’s history, thriving in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Not only was he a conventional public school product – enormously proud of his Haileybury connection – and an unquestioning British patriot of military mien and experience, he had very limited patience for leftist fads and the ...”

“... His mother was a high-school dropout who liked beer and LSD, and his father an amateur musician. Jeremy Jack Bieber, also a heavy drinker, was in the local jail the night his son was born. He abandoned the family when Bieber was ten months old and went on to pursue a career as a martial arts fighter, often missing visits to his son, resurfacing now and then ...”

“... power. In Africa the brand names of fags marketed by the big Western companies like BAT and Philip Morris are as pretentious as they have been in the West: Sportsman and Embassy Kings in Kenya, Berkeley, Madison and Kingsgate in Zimbabwe. A few years back, the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta estimated that smoking was declining in the developed ...”

“... proved hard to ignore. In The Heat of the Day, Roderick Rodney, arriving after dark at Mount Morris, the Anglo-Irish estate he has inherited, decides at once to inspect the land leading down from the house to a river. ‘Forms, having made themselves known through no particular sense, forms whose existence he was not to doubt again, loomed and dwelled ...”

“... are sensitive about the label ‘craftsman’. Ruskinian theories are returning, and William Morris has been adopted as a hero by Jeremy Deller, who juxtaposed him admiringly with Andy Warhol in Love Is Enough, the show he curated recently at Modern Art Oxford. Couture perfectionism and beauty, especially when defaced ...”

“... when one stands a few feet away from the neatly incised gravestone in North Gate of Driver T.R. Morris of the Royal Horse Artillery, who died on 13 October 1917, or that of Captain S.O. Robinson, who died on 5 November 1917. In the centre of the cemetery is a monument to General Sir Stanley Maude, who captured Baghdad in 1917 and died of cholera six months ...”

“... on. But one of the youngest delegates to the drafting congress, the 25-year-old Gouverneur Morris, tweaked it so that it now read: ‘We, the People of the United States …’ Colley points out that a united American nation, let alone a single ‘people’, didn’t yet exist. But with those sonorous words read and reprinted across the world, it ...”

“... deal to the oddness of the abbey. Many have complained about them. Pugin loathed them. William Morris denounced them as ‘the most hideous specimens of false art that can be found in the whole world’ and regretted that they ‘had been allowed to block up and disfigure the abbey church’. But for the abbey’s most energetic, successful and respectable ...”

“... of pleasure.’ There were jobs for all, but few could yet afford even a little Standard or Morris Ten, and most had never dreamt of Mediterranean tours. Seaside holidays boomed. ‘The late Forties marked the peak of the Victorian resorts.’ Billy Butlin, who had invented the holiday camp and had opened two in the late Thirties, had provided three ...”

“... As the book spells out, the preservation of bodies has been an obsession of many cultures, but Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon is a special case, undertaken not to glorify the dead person but to show that there should be no respect due to death. By having himself publicly dissected Bentham also hoped to break the taboo against leaving one’s body to ...”