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“... sites selling ‘credits’ to developers in the US. Throughout the 2000s, the geographer Morgan Robertson spent time working in WMBs in the Midwest: the workers who feature in his research could be extras from Venomous Lumpsucker, all underqualified administrators or bored biologists. In one of Robertson’s ...”

“... a minor, prolific and, until this centenary, largely forgotten American writer of sea tales called Morgan Robertson published Futility, or the Wreck of the ‘Titan’. Fourteen years later he cashed in by changing the tonnage of the fictional ship to nearer that of the real one, and cutting ‘futility’ from his title. ‘She was the largest craft ...”

“... to open in Chicago, but would try to help me. I haven’t heard from him again. I did talk to Roy Robertson, the professor of addiction medicine at Edinburgh University, who has worked as a GP in Muirhouse on the north side of Edinburgh since 1980, and whose study of what is now known as the Edinburgh Addiction Cohort has been following the health of local ...”

“... business interests or consultancies. In 1988, some heroic and anonymous mole at the merchant bank Morgan Grenfell supplied me with a secret memorandum sent to his colleagues by a director of the bank, David Douglas-Home: ‘As you are all aware,’ Douglas-Home wrote, Andrew MacKay MP advises us on our political strategy and it is no small credit to him that ...”

“... a charged, almost uncomfortable awareness of surface – something akin to what the poet Lisa Robertson calls ‘soft architecture’ and its preoccupation with ‘shreds of fibre, pigment flakes, the bleaching of light’. Ryan employs discarded materials of all kinds, often items that hold or bind other things: twine, cable ties, netting, jiffy ...”

“... but also to a remarkable line of Scottish 19th-century anthropologists including McLennan, Lang, Robertson Smith, Frazer – from whom it feeds directly into the cultural and linguistic comparativism of the Modernists, including MacDiarmid. It is odd that, for all his use of the term ‘comparative method’, Davie never mentions the author of The Golden ...”

“... he was taking part. His critics were more confident; they set him in the company of Middleton, Morgan, Tindal and Bolingbroke – Hume and Voltaire are also prominent, but the assault on Gibbon as an ‘English Voltaire’ responsible for the French Revolution necessarily belongs to the 1790s more than the 1770s – and to this mainly English coterie they ...”

“... he said. ‘It fits the blacksploitation theme I’m hoping for with the film of my life. I want Morgan Freeman to play me.’ He began stripping off and I saw he had a pair of Tesco’s trackie bottoms under his old suit. He donned each suit in turn and asked us to tell him how he looked. He was anxious to know if they fitted properly. ‘Isn’t this one a ...”