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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottAlastair Humphreys|title= I Used to Know That: HistoryLocal|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |summary= I've picked up a few things Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the yearsworld. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (therethe book is an attempt ''s nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate year exploring a terrorist attack that didn't happen)small map. But I have gaps Nature loss, of this I am surepollution, land use and I thought to get a basic understanding ofaccess, wellagriculture, the basics that we all should knowfood system, a quick read of this book wouldnrewilding…'t hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Marriott|title= I Should Know That - Great Britain|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I am a dreadful Brit. I'm better at One of the geography joys of Colombia than the UK (true story, I had to google where Essex book for me was that the other day). Despite 17 years biggest thing he learned about all of full time education in the UKthese things was that there are no easy answers, I probably wouldnno single 'right or wrong't pass a simple citizenship test. Which , that every upside is likely to have a little embarrassing, really. So when this book came up downside for review I thought I'd have it, both for interest somebody and as a subtle way to brush up on my Britainthat there are some hard choices ahead. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony WilkinsonEdel Rodriguez|title=Capitalism and Human ValuesWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Tony Wilkinson has a first class honours degree We're in philosophy childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has worked in government service happened, and investment management - Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the ideal background country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for a consideration all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of capitalism and the human values which propel ittaking his time away. ItOur narrator's not too long ago - certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated family weren't in the values held by individualshappiest of places here, but true religious belief now seems an uncle refusing to be the exception rather than good soldier the rule. In its place we have a society for whom consumerism is country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the driving force - father being watched and a widening gap between those who can afford to consume watched, and those who cannotnot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. As Wilkinson says ''Getting and spending have come The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to define who we are.''ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke GittosSarah Wilson|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous MythThis One Wild and Precious Life: From Steubenville the path back to Ched Evansconnection in a fractured world

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=It My favourite Mary Oliver line is said that we live the one in a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes which she asks ''What is on the increase it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that the police line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the courts are failing way I want to deal with the problem. There's a belief that the rate of conviction Sarah Wilson is consistently lowequally lucky. ItIn her book that takes Oliver's also said words as her title (though I can't see that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape is a regular occurrence, frequently not reported she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the police and best life that society at large doesn't really carewe could be living. Luke GittosHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims we are based on myths and misunderstandings of the statistics and that far from not''improving. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she' s effing furious about the way fact that rape and sexual assaults we are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victimsnot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Krien1785633457|title=Night GamesCharging Around: A Journey to Exploring the Dark Side Edges of SportEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=SportTravel|summary=Mere mortals relax by having Clive Wilkinson has a game of footy history of travelling by unconventional means with a weekend and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into preference for slow travel. As he neared his twenties and follows eightieth birthday the case as it goes to court, interviewing some idea of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that exploring the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name edges of 'Justin' England in an attempt to level the playing fieldelectric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, so to speak. You could Google the facts it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and come up with the correct namehis wife, Joan, but this isnshouldn't a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McMillan1529153050|title=Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of YorkshireBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and professional Yorkshiremanmore like an adrenaline sport, is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be I was nudged towards ''Yorkshire enoughBritain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022', given that his father was not from God's Own County, but was a Scot by birth. In a series of discursions on the subject of Yorkshire he attempts to distil the essence of the county and to understand what being a Yorkshireman means. To this end Sharp eyes will have noted that we accompany him 're not yet through towns and cities, the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions year: the cartoons run from Mad Geoff the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattress4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Xinran|title= Buy Me The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years ago, and whilst I haven't read all of her books, every one that I have read has at some point had me Who can imagine what there will be to come in tears. This one was no different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron WoolfordB0B7289HKQ|title=Food Bank BritainConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for foodKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, less than a mile from by the riches of way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the City of Londonperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. Intrigued as The decision was made to what was going on he went ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to askAstoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. The man explained They had 73 days to him do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that he'd just got a job after two years of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paidfor most people who considered taking it on. He couldn't claim benefits as he Merv Loya was in work 75 years old and had no savings, so the bins had to be his source of food and by the following week he would have to walk to work as he couldnwas suffering from early-stage Alzheimer't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank]s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1739593901|title=Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=Generation Z, for anyone like me who didn’t know''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, is made up of those young people born between 1995 we got night-vision killer drones and 2001automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. It is one '' 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 central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book . There'Generation Zs got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: Their voices, Their Livesfar too often it' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British history. From s the radical technological innovation technology which produced takes centre stage along with the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, life for these children and teenagers is characterised by so much that was not experienced by their parents and grandparentsworld-building. In It'Generation Z', then, Combi offers some glimpses into s human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the worlds of young people todayworld scape are purely incidental. So, in what she wishes to be 'did I think of a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah GarlandJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Azzi in BetweenThe Book of Hope

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society |summary=Our story begins in The done thing is to read a country at war. Unfortunately book all the way through before you could probably put a name sit down to review it (although . I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it isn't named) as it happens all too regularlyhits me. Our heroine And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too'' affected by the war, but every day it came made in a little closervacuum. Her father still worked as a doctor and her mother It is made beautiful clothesby people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsTherefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Then Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the day came Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when they had to run, it is art for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugeesart’s sake. The three recent trend of them so- for Grandma had called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been left behind astroturfed by large “left- had been luckier than most for they were accepted on wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) more globalist and they had a home, although it was just one roomprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1398508632|title=Where's the Elephant?The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=We've all It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. haven't we? Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. They appeal She had electricity which allowed her to children run a fridge, freezer and adults dehydrator. She had a car - and everyone who has seen fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''Wherelive's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen wild just to show just how observant they arelive off its produce. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529149800|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=We start off begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest - full fire took hold and most of glorious colours them stood and our three friendswatched, who are hiding in thereunable to think of anything they could do. Elephant is probably The tiny hummingbird flew to the easiest to spot, but Snake river and Parrot are in there too began taking tiny amounts of water and with a little concentration you'll find flying back to drop theminto the fire. When you turn The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the page youbest I can'll scan ', said the trees again and discover their hiding placeshummingbird. You even wonder if it And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like thisbe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Treglown1638485216|title=FrancoBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Crypt: Spanish Culture Odyssey in Life and Memory Since 1936Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=With ''Franco’s CryptCorruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' Jeremy Treglown has taken  ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what to some might appear forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a somewhat revisionist microscope. His aim appears to be twofold: to consider the nature of collective memoryforty-four-year-old police officer, particularly in the light US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the exhumations world. We rarely see pictures of mass graves that commenced earlier this century, a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and, secondly, to examine – the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatornot just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GreeneMatthieu Aikins|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into The Naked Don't Fear the Heart of RussiaWater

|summary=It's no mistake easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the cover of my edition of this book is Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a photo where the Transwell-Siberian Railway paced thriller at times. This is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map of the largest country not by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be any means a long, thin line across the covercriticism, as it is in our imagination of it as but rather a form of transport and testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got to be of a prone Russia refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, recounts a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia vast and Russians at times painful journey. There are – tense moments and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictmentgripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. ItBut it's no mistake either for this cover written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for perfectly envisage the environments and people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piecedescribed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes1785633074|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came Members of Parliament like us to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the way in which she managed to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill Prime minister - well, HRC wasnthe 't 'primus inter pares'involved'(that' s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but Ithe reality is that the ''prime'm sure you know what I'm talking aboutmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Then she re-emerged through We are in the fog privileged position of the George W Bush presidency with her bid having access to gain the Democratic nominationmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, losing in a hotly contested series the man who was behind the skilful control of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of State2020. Now You might not know the question is whether or not she name now but he will make another run for President in 2016certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)1846276772|title=The Kindness End of StrangersBias: Penniless Across AmericaHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedThe able will come before the disabled. There were specific fearsJobs, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of life - and then there was a memorythe white man. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a hitchhiker with a gas can in the desertpart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It was almost 's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventure, the receiving end of the bias but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on 's not just the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fearsindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1529148251|title=Massacre in NorwayMisfits: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at the camp – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Personal Manifesto|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeMichaela Coel

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It must 's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be rare indeed that in a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is the subject certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textself-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. However, You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as John Campbell demonstrates though you're in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and career you'll be carried on a cloud of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones0008350388|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to ''To be a spigurnel? What dark-skinned Black woman is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time to talk about widows' rightsbe seen as less desirable, fish trapsless hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to peopleTalk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''s estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience 0.7% of Britain English Literature GCSE students in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years England study a book by a writer of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Royal EnigmaBookseller'' 29 June 2021|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with books that cross genresher father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best historical novels are as much history as fictioneducation possible. However, it is There was always a golden rule that painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a book must know who and what shortage of anything: it iswas simply carefully harvested. One of When Otegha was ten the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a serious identity crisisplace at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartRichard Brook|title=ThatUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allGuide to Life

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Adrian Hart has I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long history ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of campaigning against racismit interesting, but it would not least have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because he I was subjected likely to racial abuse when he was at school. With jet-black hair and give it a complexion that was just favourable review [ ''slightlyfull disclosure The Bookbag'' darker than was normal he was the closest that his school had to someone who might be of Pakistani origins u. It was only name calling from a group of boys but the experience stuck and he's put much of his working life where his mouth .p. is. Sothat people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, you might expect that he would be so there is a devotee of predisposition towards expecting to like the zero tolerance approach to racist speechbook, but heeven if it doesn's far from certain t always turn out that this way'' ] – but also because it is the a book I needed to read, right way to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfnow.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca1787332098|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people How to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke Love Animals in a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=How To Be A ConservativeHuman-Shaped World|author=Roger ScrutonHenry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one '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 few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatismnext David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat. His central theme ..) and I much prefer my elephants in this book is the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to defend animals - and champion I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the value company of humans and the homecompany of animals, a society based on free association and I would probably choose the nation stateanimals. The simplest of biographical sections demonstrates I insisted that the author I read this book: no one was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock trying to stop me but within a Labour-votingI was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, lower middle class familyeggs, chicken and fish and I needed to demonstrate either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that his conservatism was making the decision would not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journeybe comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=The Wall Between UsA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Matthew SmallEliza Van Cort|rating=45

|summary=In this personal account of his visit to Israel ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and the West Bankagain.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the way life of choosing unapologetically and attempts bravely. It is to make sense of live the conflict that has dominated this area for many yearslife you've always wanted. Small openly admits '' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the issue there news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple one and his visit reinforces jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the fact moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that there we are many complexities preventing peace from happeningnot just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan ShawPolly Barton|title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need Fifty Sounds

|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has stayed in the mind been on my radar for the wrong reasons: rather than looking to develop a strategy, to examine the short while and long term threats which if the country facedworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, the emphasis was on cutting costsbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glance. In I don't know the intervening years there have been occasions when it was difficult not answer to wonder if the United Kingdom was poorly equipped - and without clear-cut aims - as a result question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the 2010 review. The opportunity to put this right comes question in 2015 and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks not at what the Review should sayfirst essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, but at how it should be tackledthe sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The EconomistStephen Fabes|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Signs of Life|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceTravel|summary=There are people who donI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't understand inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just a collection of figures relevant guts to a particular circumstancesimply go out and do it. If youI also didn're one t inherit the kind of those people then this book will mean little steady nerve, ability to talk to you, but strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasureI had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I once gave 'm not the sort of person who will get on a copy to bike outside a diplomat London hospital and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had to know without delaynot come home for six years. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtFabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Stand Single, Again, and Again, and Deliver: A Design for Successful GovernmentAgain|author=Ed StrawLouisa Pateman

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Confidence in politicians is at an all-time low''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. In fact, an alarming number of Britons express outright contempt, You are not just for their leaders, but for the entire political class - for the politicans themselves, for the civil servants standing behind them, even for the Westminster bubble of commentators and policy wonkscomplete until you find a man''. We vote for them in ever-decreasing numbers and even those who continue  This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to vote often do not feel representedbelieve. Worse still, It wasn't unkind: it was simply the younger you are, the more likely you are adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be politically disengagedbest for her. We It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she're in danger of losing an entire generation from s usually fairly young) is rescued by the political processhandsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. How can this Few girls are lucky enough to be good for a democracy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Harrybrought up ''s Last Stand|author=Harry Leslie Smith|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose to prominence last year with a famous Guardian article without'This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time' about the way in which the remembrance of those who died in the great wars has been co-opted to justify today’s military conflictsexpectation that they will marry and have children. Here, he tackles themes of poverty, political corruption, unemployment, It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a lack of hope felt by so many people todaybelief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk>