“If you are saying you want the referendum because of Brexit, then you have to know what the arrangement is that the UK has secured in relation to leaving the EU and how that has been delivered and, of course, you need to know what the SNP alternative to that proposal is.”

"Without The Killing, there would have been no Broadchurch, The Missing or River: British shows that learned how to explore a storyline and a landscape in a way that was daringly slow by local standards."

When was the last time you said 'golly'?

“You can’t level an accusation of that type without retracting it or explaining just why it was done.”

"There was not much to fear from the opposition. But Downing Street did feel it had something to fear from Fleet Street."

From Royal Burgess Golfing Society to the Cresta Run, these are the last of the male-only haunts.

"There's something particularly vulgar about depriving people of food, watching people go hungry, just to whip up a bit of extra drama. It feels entitled and indulgent and queasily contemporary: let them not eat cake."

"I started seeing Gen. I’d never met anyone like him. He was very well read, quite the archetypal revolutionary-cum-bohemian artist. He’d moved into a flat in Spring Bank, where my friend Graham also lived. Gen slept under the kitchen table, in a sleeping bag inside a polythene tunnel he called his rainshell. It was a strange and unromantic place to conduct our liaisons, but it made some sense: it was free, and warm from the cooker."

"Children aged three to five are shown shouting their support for the prime minister and urging his government to protect Japan from Chinese aggression."

A search for the hashtags in the message – #Nazialmanya and #Nazihollanda in the original Turkish – returned thousands of results, indicating widespread success on the part of the hackers. The attackers also changed profile pictures and header images for some more high-profile targets, changing the main image to a Turkish flag and the profile picture to a Turkish-style coat of arms.

“Can you make his accent a little more authentic? That usually meant they wanted the Simpsons character Apu.”

When news of the Yahoo breach broke last year, the company itself was widely condemned for what technologists called improper security – the breach was possible because the hackers were able to forge “cookies” that told Yahoo’s servers to allow them full access to vast numbers of private email accounts.

"I wanted to tell a different story; of how what was then the most powerful state in Europe was driven by fear and bigotry to destroy a defenceless minority and act against its own material interests.

These tendencies are present in every society and in every era. I hoped then, as I hope now, that Blood and Faith might make readers more alert to the destructive possibilities in our own."

"It was a project about crossing the road … how everyone is different, everyone has an identity," says shaken artist Franck Allais.

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