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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|title=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England|author=Nigel Cawthorne|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fast, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they haven't rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already, cooking for their working menfolk… <!-- Remove It's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' tag, and as a book to be shelved alongside those with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily Telegraph'', these selections from the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk->1908096918</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050Ariel Saramandi|authortitle=Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)Portrait of an Island on Fire
|rating=4.5
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|summary=The authors are leading researchers in their fieldsIn this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and their papers have been critiqued by peer-reviewersslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Each of Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the chapters reports systemic decay brought about by the results of a modelling exercise, examining progress or decline in one malignant forces of ten key areasracism, including armed conflictpatriarchy, trade barriers, malnutrition, air pollution, ecosystem and biodiversity, health, water environmental degradation and sanitationgovernmental dysfunction. Key economic, growth and other variables from credible sources provided Each essay in this collection serves as a common set kind of data and assumptionsdiagnostic, used in each studycharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1107679338</amazonuk>1804271616
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony BennGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=The Last Diaries: A Blaze of Autumn SunshineCity and the World
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|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Throughout my life IIn 've found that whilst I might not always agree with Tony Benn's politics, whatever he had to say would give me food for thought - The City and frequently changed the way that I viewed a situationWorld'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. He's With a wonderful mixture of supreme intelligence and humanity which is so rarely found - particularly in modern-day politics and it was with some misgivings deep affection for the urban landscapes that I opened this volume of have shaped his diarieslife, given that Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on the slipcover speaks Lower Rhine with a blend of personal memory and thoughtful observation. His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the ''compensations emotional and mental geographies tied to each location, for example, his perspectives as a child as opposed to as an adult. From Belgium and challenges of old age'' Germany to Berkeley and ''the disadvantages of growing olderColumbus, the loneliness Hens traces a map of widowhoodexperiences, the upheaval turning cities into reflections of moving from the family home of sixty years identity and the problems of failing healthbelonging.'' I've always been relieved that Benn has never ''quite'' achieved the status of national treasure, but surely he couldn't be in decline?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091943876</amazonuk>1804271691
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up FemalePaul B Preciado|authortitle=Melissa BennDysphoria Mundi|rating=34.5
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|summary='I am shocked when I read young feminists today blithely admitting that they don't know what second-wave feminists wrote.It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline Feldman|title=Peas Precarious Lease|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=The title of this novel refers to a French legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and Queuesdetractors alike: The Minefield Le Bloc. Something like a haven for artists and marginal members of society (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I live on the margins of the margins of the margins''), Le Bloc was subject to the continual threat of Modern Mannerseviction and the pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a tragedy in this book. |isbn=1804271403}}{{Frontpage|author=Sandi ToksvigClaire Dederer|title=Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=53
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|summary=Dear Sandi You are my all time favourite celebrity lesbadykeDederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, and one exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the reasons I’m so very excited to be heading to Denmark this coming weekend (are all people there like you? Please say yes)context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. For this alone, I had to get my mitts on your latest offeringDederer's work is original and expressive. I wasn’t The reader gets the impression that fussed about obtaining the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, the prologue packs a book on manners previouslypunch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, having always thought mine were quite okis consistent for the first few chapters, but I knew your take on interrogating the matter would be suitably hilarious likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and well worth a read. I was not wrongpersonal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250324</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Global Modernity and Other EssaysVirginie Despentes|authortitle=Tom RubensKing Kong Theory
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|summary=''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in French, the book is a collection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1009473085
|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024
|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It’s been difficult Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to write ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this reviewisn't the book for you. The book’s eclectic nature If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, with subject matter ranging from Nietzsche can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the English Police Force, makes it difficult to summarise impact a government has made and secondlyco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, I’m no academic the changes that occurred and philosophy is just HARD|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405633</amazonuk>the situation in 2024.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Education Under Siege: Why There is a Better AlternativeAlastair Humphreys|authortitle=Peter MortimoreLocal|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=Peter Mortimore's thoroughgoing analysis of Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the absurdities of current educational practice world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and prescriptions for finding then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a far better alternative deserves year exploring a wide readershipsmall map. It is not just an organisation which is under siege but as his personal anecdotes indicate Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, more vigorously than his rigorously argued statisticsagriculture, people are suffering. Parents are anxiousthe food system, teachers badly led and burdened with confused policies and worst rewilding…'' One of the joys of all pupils are pressurised from early infancy. Reading his the book you might be forgiven for wondering a) why so many young students me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are being abused by such distress and b) as Cicero might have askedno easy answers, no single ''Cui bono'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to whose benefit? Professor Mortimore outlines the positive alternatives suggested by international comparisons especially with Scandinavian methods. He argues have a downside for somebody and that their procedures there are more effective, that support students and produce a fairer, harmonious societysome hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447311310</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on EverythingEdel Rodriguez|authortitle=Umberto EcoWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast We're in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next to you a gentleman talks childhood, and eats with furious energywe're in Cuba. He tells of Dante The revolution has happened, Ciceroand Castro, and St Augustine and quotes first thought of as a multitude saviour of obscure troubadours from the Middle Ages. He repeats country, has proven himselfa Communist, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply in the ribs, belches and even breaks windnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. His conversation contains nuggets Well, those hours-long speeches of information but his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the flow happiest of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he reaches the cheese course would probably be shipped off to some minor pro- definitely too much information on Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informedfather being watched and watched, intrigued and prodded to examine not liked for his discourse again and againsuccessful photography business, even if only to challenge what you have heardsuccess being frowned upon. Such are The mother gets the couple jobs with the effects party to ease some of reading Eco’s essays the heat, but in ''Inventing this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the Enemy''.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George BrockSarah Wilson|title=Out of PrintThis One Wild and Precious Life: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News path back to connection in the Digital Agea fractured world
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=At about My favourite Mary Oliver line is the turn of the century most people on the street where one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I live had a morning paper delivered and a good number also got an evening paperget to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' The queue at the newsagent in the village would I'm lucky enough to be out of living my one wild and precious life the door each morning as people picked up a paper on their way I want to work. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't remember when I last saw a newspaper boy (or girlsee that she acknowledges the source) on their rounds and she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we only buy want – the weekend papers as best life that we could be living. Her answer is an indulgence with a more leisurely breakfastunequivocal ''no, we are not''. Times have changed - and thereDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's no sign effing furious about the fact that the situation is likely to settle in the near futurewe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749466510</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Against Their WillCharging Around: The Secret History Exploring the Edges of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War AmericaEngland by Electric Car|author=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J DoberClive Wilkinson
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|genre=Politics Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and Societyhis wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=If Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I told you was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that doctors had been using human beings we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in the most horrible 2023 edition?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of medical experiments, America|author=Kari Loya|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Kari (that they had done things like tie toddlers to beds to insert live pathogens into their eyes, injected children rhymes with radiation‘sorry’, sterilised those thought by the way) wanted to be subhuman spend some time with his father and even castrated the period between two jobs seemed like a child just good time to do it. get a The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. supply They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of tissue a challenge that it would be for a lab experiment, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germanymost people who considered taking it on. I am not Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341713</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Across the PondJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |authortitle=Terry EagletonThe Book of Hope |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Terry Eagleton The done thing is a Brit (Manchester born, no less) who now lives in Dublin with his American wife and children, so he seems well placed to write read a book about all the difference between us and them, there Yanks. Mid way through the pages, he even stops before you sit down to tell us that in a way he had to write thisreview it. I’m making an exception here, because when he wishes I don’t want to read a lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, he writes I want to capture itas it hits me. To read someone else’s, he suggests, And it is ‘an unwarranted invasion of their personal space’hitting me. That’s how so very British he isThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0393347648</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Stark1788360737|title=High SobrietyArtivism: My Year Without BoozeThe Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=On Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the first of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with the hangover from Hellsocial environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. She was no stranger to themAlexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: at thirty five she'd been binge drinking The Battle for more than twenty years and was Museum in the dubious position Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendsso-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). And Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by 'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a very regular basis, having consumed vast quantities of alcohol and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illness, unwanted pregnancy more globalist and assaultprogressive regime. But on that first day in January Stark decided that she was going to do something about it and the initial decision was that she would spend three months on the wagonOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha MousaWilderness Cure|author=A T WilliamsMo Wilde
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|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=Almost ten years ago on a Sunday morning back in September 2003, British Troops raided a hotel in Basra. It was a difficult period in the occupation, six months had been on from the U.S. led invasion. Temperatures were more than 50 degrees centigrade. Members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) took ten suspects in cards for questioning from a hotel in while but it was the vicinity week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of insurgent weaponryeating only wild food. The Iraqis were hoodedend of November, plasticuffedparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, forced into stress positions and subjected to karate chops and kidney punches by in a world where the British. Other men and officers watched, walked normal sores had been exacerbated by or wondered at the stench that resulted from vicious punishment. After 36 hours of tortureclimate change, Brexit and a 26 year-old hotel receptionist lay dead by asphyxiationpandemic. His grossly disfigured body bore 93 individual injuries. There are now in Wilde had a few advantages: the region area around her was a known habitat with a variety of another 250 individualsterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, men freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and womenfuel. Most importantly, whose families are making legal claims she had shelter: this was not a plan to have been killed in further encounters with British patrols or prison guards''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryu Murakami1529149800|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionHome and Family|summary=From We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The Fatherland, With Love is a 2005 Japanese novel set in tiny hummingbird flew to the then-near future river and began taking tiny amounts of 2011water and flying back to drop them into the fire. Fatherland (as The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the only way that we will abbreviate it) explores solve the social and political ramifications problem of climate change – by each of one speculative scenario: us doing what if North Korea invaded Japan?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908968451</amazonuk>we can, however small that might be.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1638485216
|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
The above words were uttered in 1943 murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a gentleman called Bernard Gabrielforty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. Mr Gabriel was a piano player who founded We rarely see pictures of a unique club, 'murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The Society image of Timid SoulsChauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I' that encouraged timid performers ll ever forget and fearthe protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police -wracked musicians to come and not just in out of the cold Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'to play, to criticise and be criticised in order to conquer that old bogey of stage fright.' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed to be cured tarred by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followedChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rithy PanhMatthieu Aikins|title=The EliminationNaked Don't Fear the Water
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Three years ago I went It's easy to Cambodiaforget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. I went This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to S21, because you cannot go how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to Phnom Penh accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and not go to gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the former high school Tuol Sleng (Tuol Slav Prey as whole way through. But it had been) 's written with a haunting and see what it became. I went almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to Choeung Ek, because you cannot NOT know about perfectly envisage the killing fields, environments and you cannot really know about them until you have stood therepeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689295</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Ivo MosleyJosh Berry|titlerating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=In Members of Parliament like us to believe that the Name country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the People: PseudoSPADS -Democracy and who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the Spoiling man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our WorldMinds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=On the spectrum ranging between democracy and totalitarianismAnyone who is not an able, Ivo Mosley upholds white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the system extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of elective oligarchy lies closer to everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the latterdisabled. And yet Jobs, he essentially sayspromotions, Western democracy as we know higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it today is 's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It'nothing'' but this form of representative government, excluding a large proportion s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the people whose freedoms bias but it claims to protect's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402626</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529148251
|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
|author=Michaela Coel
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul McMahon0008350388|title=Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of FoodWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It's predicted that the world's population will reach nine billion by 2050 and given that there are regular appeals for money to relieve To be a famine in some part of the world it's not unreasonable dark-skinned Black woman is to wonder whether or not we will be able to feed nine billion peopleseen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' Recent turmoil in food markets adds ''We Need to the worry, but the truth is that we could feed that number people Talk About Money''nowby Otegha Uwagba '' if different approaches were taken and there was cooperation rather than an unseemly scramble to secure access to food even if this results in starvation for the neighbour0. Paul McMahon looks at how 7% of English Literature GCSE students in this very readable England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a bookby a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250340</amazonuk>}}'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily CockayneRichard Brook|title=Cheek by JowlUnderstanding Human Nature: A History of NeighboursUser's Guide to Life
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|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=As Emily Cockayne emphasises at the beginning of the first chapter, almost everyone has a neighbour; if you have I am a neighbourfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, you are one yourself; and neighbours can enrich or ruin our livessometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this engaging bookI'd have skimmed it, she takes various case studies and anecdotes found some of living side by side it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in Britain from around 1200 the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the present daybook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546949</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787332098
|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
|author=Henry Mance
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''
I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan M Katz1523092734|title=The Big Truck That Went ByA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It was January 12, 2010 and AP correspondent Jonathan M''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Katz was preparing to ship out of Haiti after spending the last two Again and a half years reporting about political instability, riots again and disastersagain. He was preparing for a change of scene'' (Alma Derricks, a stint in Afghanistanformer CMO, concluding that ''It sounded like a good place for a break''. Nature had other plans.Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean M Twenge and W Keith CampbellPolly Barton|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of EntitlementFifty Sounds
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Twenge Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and Campbell if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have been studying the rise in narcissism as a social trendvisited by now. They are well-qualified to commentI may get there later this year, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeisterbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, who pioneered research I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in this field. At more than three hundred pages it's rather weighty for the popular market at first essay, which itis on the sound ''s aimedgiro' '' – which she describes as being, but even if you only dip into this bookamong other things, I think the sound of ''every party where youhave to introduce yourself''ll take home their message.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim MooreStephen Fabes|title=You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved BritainSigns of Life|rating=45
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|summary=This is not the first book I've read about the scummy, unloved corners of our country, was brought up on maps and I approached it in just the same way I did with the last first- person narratives of tales of far away places. I looked to see if it might feature Leicester, where I live. The opinion seems to be that you can only like Leicester enough to be proud of it if you're not from there originally was birth- righted wanderlust and as I grew up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere, it suits me finecuriosity. But no - despite its problems (thanksUnfortunately, Labour councils) it doesnI didn't countinherit what Dr. It's not grotty, ugly, run-down Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and unappreciated enoughdo it. It still has some semblance I also didn't inherit the kind of lifesteady nerve, unlike too many towns ability to talk to strangers and cities in Britain where the industry, the jobs, the life and the thought basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been sucked out, seemingly beyond repairgifted with the requisite 'bottle'. After stumbling upon In order words I'm not the nightmare that is the out-sort of-season, redundant English coastal town, our author has valiantly journeyed round many of these grot-spots, person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and found the story of decrepitude only exacerbatingnot come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546930</amazonuk>1788161211
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