(1) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(2) He blames smugglers, hoarders and street vendors for causing the problems rather than being a consequence of them.
(3) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
(4) To put it another way: were Hildebrand Gurlitt and his son unique, or is the find in Munich a clue to some larger network of Nazi art hoarders sitting on secret treasures all this time in postwar Europe , living off occasional covert sales of the Picassos that they keep among the canned foods in their anonymous flats?
(5) His attack on land hoarders last year had his critics comparing his words with Robert Mugabe’s seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe.
(6) Even now, food hoarders are first to be frogmarched off to jail by panicky governments in poor, hunger-struck countries.
(7) His mother was a hoarder and his father moved out, leaving young David to seek solace in reading and obsessively following the LA Dodgers.
(8) The first episode of the second series of The Hoarder Next Door brought ratings cheer for Channel 4, with an average audience of 2.1 million between 9pm and 10pm.
(9) Though the costs of blocking one website are minor, the attractiveness of this remedy to rightholders means that this is likely to have significant cumulative effect, placing a large burden on businesses that already suffer the heat of overzealous copyright enforcers and surveillance hoarders.