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“... is very different from a study of him on the night shift. So it is hardly surprising that, as Kenneth Bourne disarmingly puts it in his preface, ‘there is no satisfactory biography of Palmerston, and there probably never will be.’ But this has not deterred a large number of writers from trying their hand. The great five-volumed mausoleum ...”

“... until his death in 1913; in 1916, Johnson bought and radicalised it, hiring John Dewey, Randolph Bourne and Thorstein Veblen as editors. In Thayer’s view, the Dial’s concern with politics was tedious. He and Watson decided to ‘follow their own tastes’, which were thoroughly belletristic, and put contemporary writers and artists side by side. For ...”

“... through Ann Wroe’s book on Pontius Pilate, but it was too weird and dissociated. I ordered Kenneth Tynan’s diaries from Amazon but found I was in no mood for high camp and dominatrixes. I wanted something stolid and sad. With a sense of oh-what-the-hell, I finally picked up a book I’d bought on the trench trip and then instantly lost interest in: a ...”

“... Raffishly handsome and an occasional film actor, he can be seen to absolutely riveting effect in Kenneth Macpherson’s 1930 avant-garde masterpiece Borderline, starring H.D., Bryher and Paul Robeson. He plays the adulterous husband of H.D., who is likewise visually transfixing. Later, he would become a popular Bay Area psychic, a friend to Allen Ginsberg ...”

“... got to pick the school’s name: Mossbourne is named after the father of its late sponsor, Clive Bourne. Adonis and Blunkett saw academies as a way of kick-starting the regeneration of struggling schools, usually in economically depressed areas, which had become so overwhelmed by so many problems, that the best thing seemed to be to hoover out their innards ...”