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“... militant High Churchman, Francis Higgins. Later they delighted in the fortunes of the Tory lawyer Constantine Phipps, whose eventual reward for his role as one of Sacheverell’s defence counsel was the Lord Chancellorship of Ireland. In England, the focus of public attention shifted during the impeachment and trial, perhaps inevitably, from political ...”

“... It is obvious that Isabel Allende’s novel about Chile, The House of the Spirits, has something about it that appeals to women readers: but I cannot imagine what that something is. ‘Magical realism’ is the vogue-word: but this seems to me a farrago of fantasy-triggers. I was astonished when Marina Warner asserted on television that the book ‘gives you an astonishing understanding of a political situation ...”

“... becomes manic when he watches noblemen coaxing the multitude into their once-exclusive grounds. Constantine Phipps enjoyed similar jokes in his funny novel, Careful with the Sharks, last ...”

“... other MPs had shrouded with euphemism, or skipped past. Russell’s successor as home secretary, Constantine Phipps, the marquess of Normanby, was in the Lords, and found himself unable, when directly engaged, to defend this aspect of the bill with any vigour. Twenty years later, in 1861, when the death penalty for sodomy was finally removed (replaced ...”

“... food and good wine? And was he really prepared to listen to unwelcome but true information? Diana Phipps upsets him by telling him that some of the people she had invited to dinner had refused to come because Radji was going to be there (George Sanders was right – always check out your fellow guests). Radji slams her for ‘tactlessness’. But this is just ...”