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“... in his pockets, even into restaurants which turn away dogs. New faces in the diary include that of Anthony Blunt, eager to advise on pictures. He provokes this comment: ‘All art experts are notoriously uncharitable about each other, especially if they are friends.’ A deft set-piece describes the author’s private audience at the Vatican. Preceding ...”

“... colleagues who trusted him and the country that had given him shelter: but no more abnormal than Anthony Blunt, who made friends with the King while spying for Russia. It has been said that Fuchs handed atomic secrets to an ally and that he merely put into effect the policy of sharing atomic secrets with the Soviet Union that the great Danish physicist ...”

“... an admirer of German Romanticism and 17th-century painting, a reimaginer of such figures as Anthony Blunt and Paul de Man, and a frequent raider of mathematics and cosmology, Banville is – no question – one of the fancy boys, sometimes verging on being a clever-clever darling. (‘As one of your most darkly glowing luminants has observed’ is ...”

“... of the Bulgarian communist leader Todor Zhivkov. John Banville did it in a roman à clef about Anthony Blunt in The Untouchable; and the Russian writer Olga Trifonova presented her persuasive and well-researched portrayal of Stalin’s wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, in the form of a novel. All these bio-fictions are rather good, and The Porcupine comes ...”

“... or any other research team to do so. But Alan knew he had maintained his self-respect, unlike Anthony Blunt, of whom he disapproved. Paul Broda’s book is largely based on Alan’s lengthy memoir of his activities as a scientist and copious letters from his father, Berti. Hilde said and wrote little – Berti was always complaining about her ...”

“... to memories of his early life with his sister Cynthia. At Marlborough he was a contemporary of Anthony Blunt, and just junior to Louis MacNeice and John Betjeman. Among his friends at Oxford were Isaiah Berlin, Maurice Bowra and Stephen Spender, with whom he coedited the magazine Oxford Poetry in 1930. In his excellent introduction to this definitive ...”

“... to which his chair had been attached, and continued to work on Bentham. In 1983, four years after Anthony Blunt had been exposed as a KGB agent, Jenifer Hart, with monumental recklessness, talked about her prewar Soviet contacts in a television interview. The Sunday Times published an article insinuating that Hart himself might have been involved in ...”

“... guards, to Vienna, and on to London, where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt. Like the author of the book, who is a painter and who was then at the Slade, she discovered, he tells us, that ‘the people with the beautiful faces were also, mysteriously, the ones it was most fun to be with.’ The self-proclaimed ...”

“... in 1962, a new campaign of restoration was undertaken by John Brealey, under the supervision of Anthony Blunt. The results were remarkable. Although the pictures now displayed in the Orangery at Hampton Court are obviously little more than shadows of their former selves, and one could not be restored at all, enough has survived to give a fair idea of ...”

“... brief segment in Chapter 14 concerning Cambridge University two years before the unmasking of Sir Anthony Blunt as the notorious “fourth man”. My own inquiries had led me to his trail, or to that of someone exactly like him.’ A complaint against Centennial was that its social-Darwinistic denial that any species, tribe, race or nation had inherent ...”

“... into the next reign. There were expeditions to Germany after the war by British agents, including Anthony Blunt, apparently to recover incriminating correspondence from the Duke of Windsor. Whatever was found would surely have been destroyed and the fulsomely acknowledged help that Cadbury has received from the royal archives stops at the death of George ...”

“... thought him ‘a dark horse’, withdrawn and laconic; the younger poet and apprentice producer, Anthony Thwaite, remembered sharing an office with MacNeice in the late Fifties, when he was drinking heavily, as a far from comfortable experience: Uncertain of your mood, after an hour Of a shared office going slowly sour With cigarettes and hangovers, the ...”

“... Party (he was an uninhibited homosexual cruiser) until, Andrew deduces, he was shopped by Anthony Blunt and expelled from the Party by Pollitt in 1941. If, however, we set on one side the flow of good stories and try to analyse Andrew’s narrative, what emerges? The most obvious lesson for SIS is to gain and keep the confidence of those in power ...”

“... this office, because he seemed so frail.’ ‘The other day, I found myself in a taxi-queue with Anthony Blunt.’ ‘I’ is enviably mobile and privileged – ‘when I lived in Berlin’, ‘I happened to be in Italy when ...’, ‘Many years ago, in British Columbia, I remember ... ’ It is excellent that now, in the late Eighties, anyone can ...”

“... as much as the world likes to think.’ Cambridge provided a solid world of aesthetes and queers: Anthony Blunt (with whom he edited the Venture) and Dadie Rylands, the Apostles, and young John Lehmann, who fell in love with Redgrave in the Bloomsbury mode. ‘I am shallow, selfish . . . at times hideously immoral,’ Redgrave replied to the ...”