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“... Of all the many guises in which Saddam Hussein has appeared before the Iraqi people and the world, the most surprising was that of the great white hope of Arab moderation. Formerly known as a rejectionist – a last-ditch opponent of a negotiated Palestine settlement – he emerged in 1987, under the strains of a war against Iran which he appeared to be losing, as a charter member of what the Jordanians were describing as ‘the great moderate centre ...”

“... up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem’ – because he was of the house and lineage of David – ‘to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.’ The precise detail, it is often said, conveys that concern with accuracy which we look for in a medical man ...”

“... Eliot, the representation of Zionism can hardly be overlooked, though Cheyette’s analysis of Daniel Deronda barely mentions the term. Deronda himself, as Cheyette points out, stands both for the Jewish desire for a national homeland and for the ‘unity of mankind’. Among subsequent English writers, only the arch-imperialist Buchan was able to take ...”

“... as celebrators of the Gaelic elite connects with the republican historiography of such works as Daniel Corkery’s The Hidden Ireland. The lines in ‘The Curse of Cromwell’ about a Big House destroyed by the English certainly sound familiar: I came on a great house in the middle of the night Its open lighted doorway and its windows all alight, And all ...”