fair use law

can anyone point toward a basic primer on uk fair use law in the case of quoting from books?

im writing a series of articles based around small sections of various books and wondering how much, if any, i can quote from it. a sentence or two or a few paragraphs? read around and it's hard to find a simple answer.

my stuff's set to be published online, but with the option of print and possibly a published collection. illustrated and with commentary and my own descriptions (to cut down on the amount quoted) if that makes any difference.

like, this kind of article quotes liberally from a new book: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/15/rio-ferdinand-david-moyes-tactics-manchester-united
but does that have more sway as it's 'news'? my thing is more just 'look at this, it's interesting' and mild piss-taking.

is there a different version of wikipedia in UK? it seems like the fair use protections are much less than in the US (there was some churchill book that was prohibitively expensive to publish because they had to clear every quote with the churchill estate but apparently in the US version they didn't have to pay a dime.)

yeah you're right, it seems it's called 'fair dealing' in the uk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing
seems stricter than the US version but i'm no closer to finding out if i'm ok or not! i'll just ask the editor bod

Yea the concept of fair use (rather than fair dealing) is limited to the US. Feel like Israel might also have fair use but afaik fair use is quite different from fair dealing