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“... public and private depravity, and shines a torch into the laundry room of Judaism. This is to take white slavery as seriously as it was taken in the years before far worse befell in Europe. But it was never easy to keep a solemn countenance in the Runyonesque world that greeted the transatlantic voyager – stuffed full of promises and stowed away in a coal ...”

“... widespread defeat or discredit of reformism, and social democracy of the ‘Great Society’ or ‘White Heat’ stripe. By the time of the Benn evening, people (at least the people outside the hall) were not so much debating alternative paths to socialism as they were the utility or desirability of socialism itself. Even poor old welfarism was being widely ...”

“... artists … wiretappers and soldiers of fortune and faggot lounge-entertainers’: the ‘bad white men’ Ellroy always finds. Along with the Los Angeles setting, American Tabloid abandoned the police-procedural and psycho-killer conventions of Ellroy’s LA books. Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello and Sam Giancana took the place of Jack Dragna and Mickey ...”

“... drive,    Automedon,Cinch, shake out the reins, and lay them on the rail.     Dapple and white the horses are; perfect they are;Sneezing to clear their cool black muzzles.    He mounts.    The chariot’s basket dips.  The whipFires in between the horses’ ears.And as in dreams, or at Cape Kennedy, they rise,Slowly it seems, their chests like ...”

“... with millions of ordinary families’. It comes as no surprise to find that he proposed the ‘white heat of technology’ wheeze to Wilson as a campaign theme for 1964, though Crossman’s own ignorance of scientific matters was as near-complete as one could wish. From 1964 to 1970 we all know the story – the fetishisation of sterling, the corporate ...”

“... colour and shape – Its bonnet was like a car’s – From the bigger smarter lines, Red and white Caledonian, Carruthers, yellow and brown: Its paintwork strangely faded With a bluey-mauve, chalky Only half-metallic bloom That made it seem like a shell Or even a kind of flower, As though already a part Of the narrow country roads Whose banks and hedges ...”

“... With Rembrandt, as with other totem figures of the arts (Shakespeare, Mozart), longstanding reverence from fellow practitioners coincides with immediate appeal to the community at large. In Rembrandt’s case this appeal comes chiefly from his treatment of the human figure, in his portraits especially, and above all, the self-portraits he painted in his old age ...”

“... 1 Now they stand quite still on level doorsteps, Outside the Drug Store and the Post Office. A white sky, two buildings underneath it, Outside the buildings half a dozen people. Across the dust like dice the buildings rolled, Stopped under the white sky. Soon the people prised them open, clambered out ...”

“... a portrait of Glazebrook, he chose to represent him with Hollis’s 1970 catalogue in his lap. Christopher Wilson’s excellent Richard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel, the final book from Hyphen Press, is not only a detailed analysis of the work of Hollis, with whom Wilson collaborated from 1999 to 2004, but a story of aesthetic and social change as ...”

“... by way of chopping, biting, thwacking and impaling) all symbols of black male genitalia? Was the white race produced by women lepers who fled to the Caucasus and coupled with jackals? Do surnames like Dunn, Grey and Douglas, and place-names like Dublin and Blackpool, indicate concealed African origins? Were the Mende people of West Africa the first to ...”

“... barrel past unheeded. Nothing can matter to a man with a mouthful of perfectly charred sliced white chomping in his head. Nothing’s too hard for the soul that’s sluiced with slurps of strong, sugary tea. Unless . . . What luck (and does anyone suffer worse luck than he?) that his idle eye should at that moment light on the very thing from which his ...”

“... any consideration of human rights. The story of the cave-in is instructive. In March 1994, Warren Christopher paid his first visit to China as Secretary of State. A few days before his arrival, the authorities arrested Wei Jingsheng, the highest-ranking Party member to have become a dissident, and one of the founders of the ‘Democracy Wall’ movement. No ...”

“... fantasies animate the sequence in a wonderfully mad way. ‘I stand for monogamy and chastity,’ Christopher Tietjens says, setting himself against the times as well as his devil-wife, Sylvia. The books are suffused with a seriously meant – if somewhat vague – neo-feudalism, partly in tribute to Ford’s friend Arthur Marwood, from whom he took ...”

“... time to denounce publicly those journalists who had dared to print the name of the head of MI6, Christopher Curwen. The heads of the CIA and the KGB, William Casey and Victor Chebrikov, are of course public figures. But that, as Mr Ingham would say, is not the point. What the point is remains obscure. In 1932 the novelist Compton Mackenzie was tried for a ...”

“... Since the publication of Cities for a Small Country the Government has published an Urban White Paper, the first for 23 years, which proposes £1 billion of tax incentives, spread out over five years, aimed at encouraging people to buy homes in disadvantaged areas and to clean up contaminated land. The White Paper ...”