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“... out by drones. And despite having written academic papers backing a powerful and restrictive War Powers Act, he made the legal case for the Obama administration’s right to make war on Libya without bothering to get congressional approval. Koh, who has now returned to teaching human rights law, is not the only human rights advocate to call for the use of ...”

“... intervention’. International law has failed to prevent countless atrocities, and the great powers suffer no significant penalty for launching wars of aggression, ‘preventive’ or otherwise. Over the past two decades Zolo has developed an illuminating and unusually coherent critique of the international legal order, its aspirations, its many ...”

“... with which the ordinary models were mere child’s play. The poet-priest Southwell felt its powers, but so did other kinds of people; Topcliffe had a down on gypsies. Even his bosses thought he sometimes went too far. He was tireless because he enjoyed his labour. Thirty years ago, a friend of mine picked up at a bookstall in the Cambridge market a ...”

“... by the other anymore. These were occasions of excruciating hilarity over which, with my dual powers of attorney, I sometimes presided. My aunt was shocked when my father died, and amazed when I explained that he had been very ill for almost two years. She had no memories of their past irritability and missed him sorely, often calling me by his ...”

“... of resistance, many of those subjects apparently invest emotionally in claims by their rulers to powers of blessing, or baraka (Morocco’s King Hassan); to the prestige of holy or sharifian descent from the Prophet Muhammad’s family (Jordan’s King Hussein and King Hassan); to the guardianship of Islam (the Saudi royal family); to the sacred heritage of ...”

“... was deterring him from taking any more initiatives; that his relations with the occupying powers had been suspiciously close; and that he would probably save up any weapons dropped to him to impose a Serb hegemony once the Allies had won the war. Tito, on the other hand, was at least known to be fighting. He was undeterred by German retaliation, which ...”

“... January 1789, when it caused a sensation. When one reads it now, in this excellent new edition by Michael Sonenscher, where it appears for the first time in English alongside the other pamphlets Sieyès wrote in 1788, it is still easy to see why. It is not a beautiful or polished piece of writing, it is poorly organised and it is probably too long for what it ...”

“... a complication has emerged, which threatens to bar our family’s return to its amnesiac state. Michael Collins, Neil Jordan’s film, is not about us as a family, but we are part of its revolutionary story and provide much of its romance. In May 1917, Michael Collins came down for a few days to Longford, one of those ...”

“... me with everything, every day.’There are all kinds of ways of reading this little allegory. The powers that be don’t like minimalism. Celan’s dream of getting rid of clutter, in life as in poetry, is a lost cause. Or more optimistically, concision in poetry is fine but you can’t expect the world to play along. Celan himself makes this point elsewhere ...”

“... is now the conventional wisdom among lawyers. Every state needs or believes it needs emergency powers for times of crisis. In 1914 the British Parliament, which had rushed through the first Official Secrets Act in 1911, rushed through a Defence of the Realm Act, drawing on much experience in Ireland and the colonies and giving ministers wide ...”

“... I am), it ought to be with at least a little bit of awe. Here’s Milton, for instance, describing Michael’s heavenly forces setting out to do battle with Satan and his rebellious hordes (from Book Six of Paradise Lost): At which command the powers militant, That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined Of union ...”

“... When much of what we now know as the Third World consisted of colonial possessions, the imperial powers never considered interference there to be intervention at all: it was, rather, the legitimate exercise of authority. Many countries with nominal independence were widely believed to possess less than genuine sovereignty, and the great ...”

“... The serene face of Michael Faraday radiates from all directions: first in disguised profile on a postage stamp, then more handsomely on the £20 note. Illuminating the dark warrens of the London Underground, he now advertises an exhibition at the Science Museum to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth. Visitors to this intimate and thoughtful display are reminded of how much the modern world owes to the gentle giant of experimental science, whose insights into electro-magnetism were eventually to find application in motors and machines which transformed human life even as they transformed electrical currents ...”

“... millennia of ebullient trading and a century of, to put it mildly, muddled planning, Sheppard and Michael Hebbert paint their pictures in the same bright colours: of a healthy, wealthy conurbation, unfathomable, inchoate, yet liveable and boundlessly energetic. London confers prosperity on the rest of Britain rather than drains it away, they say. It is ...”

“... was. She has managed to overcome a habit without disavowing it; her loyalty to the drug and its powers is what is touching. Nothing in the book equals the raw regret with which Phillips looks back at her cocaine days: mourning not the addiction but the adventure, the innocence (that special innocence of people who think they know everything) with which she ...”