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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian LevyAlastair Humphreys|title= The ExileLocal|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |summary= An account Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. 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, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the fate joys of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since book for me was that the events biggest thing he learned about all of 9/11these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The Exilerevolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren' plunges into t in the murky waters happiest of international terrorismplaces here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, espionage such as Angola) and the father being watched and politics. Detailed watched, and meticulousnot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the book tackles couple jobs with the party to ease some of the subject from all anglesheat, but in this sultry island country, providing it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a panoramic view of fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the subject one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and acting precious life?'' I get to enlighten love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and inform precious life the readerway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1785633457|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is Clive Wilkinson has a fierce, witty and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminism. In a series history of open letters, she addresses the issues faced travelling by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing unconventional means with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences edges of being 'catfished' and sent abuse onlineEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. This is In fact, it should be a vital read pleasant holiday for any girl born in the 1990sClive and his wife, Joan, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exterior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin1529153050|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=History Humour|summary=Lauren Elkin Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is down on suburbs: theycoming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards 're places where you can't or shouldnBritain't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking s Best Political Cartoons of everything from ''Madame Bovary2022'' to ''Revolutionary Road''). When she imagines to herself what the female version of Sharp eyes will have noted that well-known historical figure, the carefree we''flâneur'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered re not yet through the world's great cities without having year: the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to them31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saqib NoorB0B7289HKQ|title=Surgery on Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Shoulders Soul of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroadAmerica|author=Kari Loya

|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=The letters begin much in Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the fashion of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back way) wanted to family and friends to tell them of spend some time with his experiences, the sights he's seen father and the people he's metperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. It's just a little different in ''Surgery on The decision was made to ride the Shoulders of Giants'' though: Saqib Noor is a junior doctorTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, training Virginia to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist but to give medical assistanceit - in 2015. They're countries had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which Noor describes pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1521173192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Asher1739593901|title= Man Up22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= When ''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 years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option of confessions to make. I'good ladm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There' sessions for boys, all debate broke looses got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Shouldn Then there's science fiction: far too often it't consent be selfs the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-evident for everyone? Would building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the workshops reinforce technology and the stereotype world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of 'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about nontwenty-binary peopletwo science fiction short stories? In short Well, how could these workshops be anything else than a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>I loved it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John GrindrodJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= OutskirtsThe Book of Hope |rating= 45|genre =Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety |summary=''Outskirts'' The done thing is an interesting take on to read a phenomenon of book all the modern age: the introduction way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the green belt experience of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's and '70'sreading this amazing book, I want to capture it as he puts it, ''I grew up on the last road in Londonhits me.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and the various fights and developments And it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisionsis hitting me. Within this topic, he This beautiful book has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heartme in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carolina de Robertis1788360737|title= Radical HopeArtivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= On 8th November 2016Can 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 social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, Donald Trump was elected as even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the 46th President Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of the United Statesso-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Since then many Americans Their seemingly grass roots movements have been overcome with fear, worrying about astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what will become Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=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 American society during Trump's administrationeating only wild food. Carolina de Robertis The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was no exception perhaps not the best time to this fear and start, in response to a world where the newly elected President normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and his policies she put out a call for actionpandemic. Radical Hope is Wilde had a few advantages: the outcome area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to this callrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. De Robertis reached out to fellow writers She had a car - and activists asking for lettersfuel. Most importantly, predominantly letters of love, addressed she had shelter: this was not a plan to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order ''live'' wild just to help spread hope during times of uncertaintylive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew d'Ancona1529149800|title=Post-TruthThings You Can Do: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackClimate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=3.54|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=''Our own post-truth era is what happens We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when society relaxes its defence the forest fire took hold and most of values that underpin cohesion, namely veracity, honesty them stood and accountability.'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough to believe that when making a decision about political votingwatched, you should be able unable to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells youthink of anything they could do. I've been suspicious for a decade or more, but it's become difficult The tiny hummingbird flew to ignore the change in political attitudes since Brexit river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the election of Donald Trumpfire. With regard to the latter, when Trump The animals laughed: what good was challenged on a statement hethat doing. 'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was 'I'Who cares if m doing the best I got it wrong?can'' , said the hummingbird. He was able to tap to And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the fading concept problem of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who were used to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken climate change – by ''womeneach of us doing what we can, immigrants and public sector workers''however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1638485216|title= Wild KingdomBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Bringing Back BritainA Black Man's WildlifeOdyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeAutobiography|summary= Wildlife ''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 byDerek Chauvin, a forty-four-product of human population growthyear-old police officer, which in the modern US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests We rarely see pictures of a few ways in which we can start to bring back some murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of BritainChauvin kneeling on George's wildlife without compromising neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the human way of lifepolice - and not just in Minneapolis: we can co-exist with naturewhatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick CleggMatthieu Aikins|title=Politics: Between The Naked Don't Fear the ExtremesWater

|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The political landscape is changing rapidly at the moment. A little more than two years ago we were facing the end of Naked Don't Fear the UKWater isn's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would see anothert actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. Instead we saw This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Conservative government elected with Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a workable majorityvast and at times painful journey. Brexit saw the end of one Prime Minister There are tense moments and another elected by a few members gripping accounts of parliamentborder crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. As I write weBut it're facing another general election, s written with a Conservative landslide predicted. In two years we've seen haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of reader to perfectly envisage the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized carenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Phillips1785633074|title= Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the TruthStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''Everywomanprimus inter pares'' announces itself proudly, with a chapter named (that''The Truth about Speaking up''. Jess Phillips, s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, tells us many times reality is that she is the ''gobbyprime'' and that she has a loud voicemovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Her voice does come through We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, clear and urgentthe man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. Using her journey to Westminster and her experiences in Parliament, Phillips teaches You might not know the reader name now but he will certainly be the truths she's learned on her journeyman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786330776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tormod V Burkey1846276772|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre= Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary= Burkey argues Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that manthey may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is no longer simply a part of the ecosystem, but instead exists above it through his dominating wayseveryday life. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money and all the pollution that comes with them White men will always come first. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such thingsable will come before the disabled. Indeed Jobs, global warming has caused climate changepromotions, which, if it continues, will make higher salaries are the preserve of the world unrecognisablewhite man. For Even when those who wouldn't pass the world to medical become fullera part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, for it to be a world that seeks to provide their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the needs individuals on the receiving end of every living thing, then the bias but it needs to change's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum1529148251|title= The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and DronesMisfits: Confronting the New Age of ThreatA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 45

|summary=Looking back over this month''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, April 2017malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the news has been full truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone individualsmind. A suicide bombing on the St Petersburg Metro killed 15 people and injured 64 more. In Stockholm, Sweden, You're not going to read a hijacked truck steered into book of essays or a pedestrian shopping area and department storeself-help book. Most recently, a shooting in Paris just two days ago, claimed You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the life of a police officer and injured several othersEdinburgh TV Festival. Whilst it is true that governments have access You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to impressive, cutting-edge technology ''listen'' to combat terrorism, it is also the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a fact that these resources are becoming increasingly available to individualscloud of exquisite writing. At what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn Knight0008350388|title= The Button BoxWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating= 45|genre= HistoryPolitics and Society|summary= Buttons are the underdogs of the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements of clothing, falling into the same dustbin category with zips and shoe laces, they tend ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as necessary for keeping clothes onless desirable, rather less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than contributors my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to styleTalk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman. But Lynn Knight is set '' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to prove that the opposite is trueUK from Kenya when she was five years old. We think nothing of lacing discussions about clothing Her sisters were seven and feminism nine. It was her mother who came first, with headscarvesher father joining them later. The family was hard-working, bikinisprincipled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and underweight models – and buttons deserve then a place on the pedestal of gender discussionat New College, tooOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul FlynnRichard Brook|title= Good As YouUnderstanding Human Nature: From Prejudice A User's Guide to Pride - 30 Years of Gay BritainLife|rating= 4.5|genre= History Lifestyle|summary=The last 30 years have seen I am a tidal wave of change sweep the country with regards to how gay people are perceived firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and acceptedsometimes books choose us. In 1984my case, the pulsing electronic beats this is one of ''Smalltown Boy'' became an anthem to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate of panic and fear across the nation, and marginalising a community who were already ostracisedlatter. 30 years later thoughNot so very long ago, the long road to gay equality would reach a climax with the legalistion of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts if I had come across this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kyliebook I'd have skimmed it, Russell T Davies, Will Young, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smith. This is the story found some of Britain's brothersit interesting, sons, cousins, fathers and husbands. Of public outrage and personal loss, the (but it would not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and have 'hit home' in the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised to be as Good As You. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mark Aylwin Thomas|title= Blades of Grass|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Any book way that has me in tears at the end has been worth my timeit does now. Any book that has me hoping I believe it will end differently came to the way me not just because I know was likely to give it must is worth the readinga favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in the world – that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right nowpeople chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a common humanity which ultimatelypredisposition towards expecting to like the book, eventually, must do some good even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – that but also because it is worth the writing and the reading and the time. Blades of Grass is one such a book. It's a forgotten storyI needed to read, an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected uponright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Preston1787332098|title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and How to Love Animals in a Murder Plot at the Heart of the EstablishmentHuman-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance

|genre=True CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others. He was flamboyant ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and gregarious but could give the impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget a name and he was wittygroups: cows, dogs, foxes, charismatic elephants and very charmingso on. He appeared to be a decent manAnd we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, with views with which I would have agreed dogs on racesofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, capital punishment and membership millions of the Common Marketwild animals stay out there, ''somewhere, as '' hopefully on the European Union next David Attenborough series.'' I was then knowngoing to argue. For this 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 nineteen sixties sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and Thorpe I consider myself an animal lover. If I had entered Parliament at to choose between the age company of thirty humans and by 1967 he the company of animals, I would be party leaderprobably choose the animals. On the surface he I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was a man who had everything going for himinitially reluctant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973740</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Bakewell|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom I eat cheese, eggs, Being chicken and Apricot Cocktails|rating=4|genre= Politics fish and Society|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. Ignore it! I have found suspected that by judging a book by its cover and getting it completely wrong is a great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that you'd never have picked in a million years and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didmaking the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)1523092734|title=The Benn Diaries: The Definitive CollectionA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|summary=with all schools removed from their control and established as freestanding and self''She brings a hug-kick-governing academies. In effect this would (and possibly will) mean thunderclap that what was once a national service, locally administered will become a local service, nationally administeredevery woman needs in her life. Donald Naismith is perhaps best known as the former Chief Education Officer of Richmond-upon-Thames, Croydon Again and then Wandsworth but his education again and formative working years took place in his adopted home city of Bradfordagain. In ''A Bradford Apprenticeship'' he gives us an affectionate tribute to the city which made him what he is and his thoughts on the education system. Bradford was once one of the country's leading education authorities and he values the opportunities it gave him to fine tune his thinking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siri Hustvedt|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Sex and the MindCirque du Soleil RSD)|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society |summary= I must confess that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke to me on a profound, intimate level. This To claim space is in part due to live the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art life of choosing unapologetically and also love science in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivebravely. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman Looking'' is that it It is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesive, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplines. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=T J Coles|title=The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from live the European Union|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=life you''Have you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcare? If so, you might be entitled to compensation..ve always wanted.''

There wasn't Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much could make me laugh on in the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed it. Onlynews, it seems that it wasn't completely a joke - well apart from the bit about compensation'A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. In Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs'The Great Brexit Scandalmanual: it'' T J Coles looks s something far more effective, but discussion at the substantial core of free marketeers in the Conservative party who were determined moment seems to rid the UK of the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activities. You might also know these views as be about how women can be ''neoliberalismprotected'', an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profits. On the surface I've always thought that doesnwomen need to rise above this, to be people who don't sound badneed protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, until you those few men who are violent to women would realise that the benefit will go to the people who we are already in the group which Coles refers not just an easy target to as the ''mega-rich'' and the losers will be working peopleused to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570813</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erin MoorePolly Barton|title= That's Not EnglishFifty Sounds|rating= 4.5

|summary=It's not clear who first coined Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the expression question ''divided by a common languageWhy Japan?'' about Brits Japan has been on my radar for a while and Americansif the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but as this highly entertaining book demonstratesI am not hopeful. And like Barton, it isnI don't our language that divides us. On the contrary the language simply reflects know the divisions that exist. We tend answer to watch a lot of TV at home, but rarely find anything that totally engrosses us. As a result we tend to talk over a lot of TV. We play games with some of what we watch. One of those games is spotting anachronisms. Another is "would she ever have got the job" – particularly fun with crime programmes that think itquestion 's ok for lab techs to have long free-flowing locks when doing evidence analysis or have Detective Sergeants who frankly wouldn't have passed their CV submission. A long-running one involves spotting the spread of British English in American TV shows. Erin Moore explains why. Not directly, indeed IJapan?''m not sure she even makes the connection – but She explains her feelings in respect of the fact that there are a lot more Brits question in the higher echelons of US TV-making might just explain why CSIfirst essay, NCISwhich is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, Law and Order and a whole host of among other shows will slip in words like walletthings, handbag, boot (the sound of a car), pavement…''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701912</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris McIvorStephen Fabes|title=The World is ElsewhereSigns of Life

|summary=As a Country Director, Chris McIvor has worked for a number of years at Save the Children. 'The World is Elsewhere' covers his time there and, his journeys across a number of countries. It is a beautiful mix of autobiography You can't be happy and travel. It also captures his philosophical thoughts fulfilled on international aidyour own. He reflects on both the good and the bad with You are not complete until you find a very easy, conversational writing style that makes the book truly captivatingman''. I read from cover to cover in a single sitting, unusual for a reviewer. Such was the draw as he laid himself bare. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Bikont|title= The Crime and the Silence|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= Where This was your father? Where what Louisa Pateman was your brother, your mother, your uncle? These are the questions Anna Bikont struggles brought up to ask during her investigation into a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941. The Crime and the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story of a community torn apart by hatred and intolerancebelieve. It is also a moving testament to wasn't unkind: it was simply the dedication of Bikont, who documents adults in her life advising her struggle as to find the truth with grace and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, from members of the Polish community who what they thought would rather not stir up the crimes of be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Harrad|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Before reading Kate Harradgirl (she's thought provoking insight into bisexuality in Britain I have to confess to being as guilty of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone else. It usually fairly young) is only when you read this collection of essays and anecdotes, you realise rescued by the prejudice handsome prince who then marries her so that they face on a daily basiscan live happily ever after. The very nature of bisexuality is widely misunderstood by the heterosexual and gay communities alike. As a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised, or, in the worst-case scenario, completely ostracised. Far from having, ''the best of both worlds'', they Few girls are considered lucky enough to be sitting on the fence, unable to come to terms with their true sexuality. brought up ''Purple Prosewithout'' tackles these myths and ill-informed ideas head on, and in the process shows a community expectation that does they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many issues, just not the ones years before Louisa would conclude that are being laid at their door''a belief is a choice''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0996460160</amazonuk>