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“... have to answer for those words at the day of judgment.’ The Reformation itself is tackled by Alistair Fox and John Guy. Alistair Fox, in the opening essays of the book, discusses Humanism, previously the main dues ex machina of the teleological interpretation of the Reformation. In his dissection of the ...”

“... yet be judged, it is likely to gather strength from the important books in which Thomas Mayer and Alistair Fox examine the literature and politics of early Tudor England, especially of the reign of Henry VIII. Mayer’s concern is the literature of political theory. His study examines the ideas of Thomas Starkey, the friend of Cardinal Pole and adviser ...”

“... is not there for the making. As made here, it is simplistic and weakened by overstatement. Alistair Fox’s book is altogether different: reader-friendly, patient, sympathetic but not uncritical, one of the best things, in fact, to come out of More studies in the last fifty years. Fox draws on an extensive and ...”

“... And home-made cupboards, where we watched the hares Cavorting round their forms, and saw the fox (Corrected by our little son to Vox) Touring his fields, his land as much as ours. We had to move, but carried off the room In the box of memory like something sacred. Allow us back to entertain our heirs – I almost think you could untangle time. That ...”

“... More was the only man in the kingdom who could have played it’. But a more cold-eyed scholar, Alistair Fox, has written that it ‘gives evidence of a political endeavour in More so subtle and devious as to set not only Machiavelli, but also Richard III and Iago to school’. When More could not win an argument, he slid into puerility. In The ...”

“... scotched the idea: ‘I could not accept such an award. The state does not decorate itself.’ Alistair Cole’s study of Mitterrand suffers from the huge distance it takes from its subject. This is certainly not due to lack of diligence: Cole has very thoroughly and usefully set down the details of Mitterrand’s career. And he is well aware of the ...”

“... the prime minister complained that this was the wrong approach: ‘When my gamekeeper shoots a fox, he doesn’t go and hang it up outside the Master of Foxhounds’ drawing room; he buries it out of sight.’ To which Hollis might legitimately have replied that some gamekeepers had the sense to hang the vermin they had shot on the nearest fence to warn ...”