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“... Des filled it in. There are times when a satirist has his cards handed to him by a single event (Tom Lehrer interpreted Kissinger’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize as a virtual P45), others when it’s more a matter of being outgunned by reality on a wide front. It’s just bad luck that the publication of Lionel Asbo happens to coincide with the replacement ...”

“... had not, a few years later, been smarting from their failure to get a conviction for the forger Tom Keating, even though Keating, at his trial in 1977, had admitted to faking 13 ‘Samuel Palmers’. As an officer said in the course of handcuffing the ‘Hetling’ artist, the police having finally tracked him down at his home in Cornwall: ‘We didn’t ...”

“... that might have been. It was from this condition that he was rescued by the young Newcastle poet Tom Pickard, who, having picked up a couple of leads as to Bunting’s importance and local availability, telephoned him and shortly afterwards turned up on his doorstep. With Pickard’s encouragement, Bunting was tied into the writing scene in Newcastle (he ...”

“... he recalls the disgust he felt at an RIBA conference as the ex-brutalists listened patiently to Tom Wolfe delivering an attack on modernism that was ‘remarkably flimsy, intellectually fraudulent, historically ignorant’. Yet the ‘modern movement’, as an ideology of progress and destroyer of Place, is something he unsurprisingly does not fully ...”

“... even John Arden could be included in his list of Marginal Men (and Women); Foster himself and Tom Paulin, to whom the book is dedicated, could easily join the ranks of Micks on the Make. (Paulin, however, also has some Marginal credentials.) Not to speak of Ronan Bennett. Foster makes the point that Robert Barton, George Gavan Duffy and Erskine ...”

“... choice of duteous subjects’. The Anti-Jacobin rose to the bait and denounced Joan as a Tom Paine in petticoats. But the politics of Southey’s poem weren’t much more than skin-deep: nothing could be further from a genuinely political interest in choices and stratagems and alternative courses of action than the motivating fantasy of divine ...”

“... Moses Jackson, his unswervingly heterosexual Oxford contemporary – is all-determining. He had, Tom Stoppard wrote, ‘an unremitting, lopsided, lifelong, hopeless constancy to a decent chap who was in no need of it, temperamentally unfitted for it, and never for a moment inclined to call upon it’ – and from whom, in Laurence Housman’s laconic ...”

“... assembly heard it as an attack on their liberal credentials. Henry would eventually confront Tom about his ‘fanatically intolerant and shocking tirade’, which dishonoured their parents as well as the clergy of Boston, ‘a city saturated with associations of your ancestors, immediate and distant’. Eliot agreed about the saturation, but stood his ...”

“... by others. He stares blankly as various Republican congressmen yell at him. California Congressman Tom McClintock calls his report shit: ‘You put it in a paper sack, lit it on fire, dropped it on our porch, rang the doorbell and ran.’The morning, with the Judiciary Committee, is devoted to the ten counts of obstruction of justice for which Mueller ...”

“... just kept pouring out. I was outraged and at one point, told [the national security adviser, Tom] Donilon, ‘Why doesn’t everybody just shut the fuck up?’ To no avail. Obama’s speech was put together in a rush, the retired official said, and was viewed by his advisers as a political document, not a message that needed to be submitted for ...”