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<!-- Wolff -->[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]] ===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was ''a stable genius'', as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, let's not go there. It's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br>{{newreview|author= Kurt Andersen|title= Fantasyland|rating= 4|genre= History |summary= Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nathan ConnollyAlastair Humphreys|title=Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working ClassLocal

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=Simple summary: ''Know Your Place'' is an anthology of essays on Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the working class by the working classworld. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking And then written about everything you can imagine: day trips it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the seasidebook 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 to , agriculture, the arts, food povertysystem, pub culturerewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-markerno single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and much morethat there are some hard choices ahead. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911585363</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harry Leslie SmithEdel Rodriguez|title= Don't Let My Past Be Your FutureWorm: A Call to ArmsCuban American Odyssey|rating= 54|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= DonWe't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part biography re in childhood, and part rallying call for society to tackle the systemicwe're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the United Kingdom, particularly in the North. Through reflecting on his own experiences during his childhoodcountry, Harry Leslie Smith has painted proven himself a frank Communist, and uncompromising picture 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't in the grimhappiest of places here, appallingly miserable childhood an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he had to endure due would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the poverty faced by father being watched and watched, and not liked for his family contrasted successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with theparty to ease some of the heat, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today but in a this sultry island country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147212345X</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael BristowSarah Wilson|title= China This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresserfractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= Autobiography Lifestyle|summary=Having worked for nine years My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in Bejing which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as a journalist for her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided source) she pushes us to write think about Chinese history. Having been learning whether we really ''are'' living the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in life we want – the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of best life in Communist China - but added to thatwe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of the worldDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's most intriguing nationseffing furious about the fact that we are not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910985902</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis O'Gorman1785633457|title=ForgetfulnessCharging Around: Making Exploring the Modern Culture Edges of AmnesiaEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=After Clive Wilkinson has a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something history of travelling by unconventional means with a relief to encounter ''Forgetfulness'', Francis O'Gorman's thinking on why preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the twenty-first century is losing touch with idea of exploring the pastedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, on why what is likely - or could it should be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone before. The book is supremely intelligenta pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, but with the knowledge worn lightly and shouldn't it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie1529153050|title= Long Road From JarrowBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 54|genre= Travel Humour|summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and Seeking some light relief from the only thing I miss current political turmoil which is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-coming to-earth approach seem more and sharp wit belie more like an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Letadrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's be honest, though, I picked this one up because Best Political Cartoons of someone else2022''s review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I Sharp eyes will have no connection (noted that I know of) to we're not yet through the year: the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too31 August 2022. Tangentially, at least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raymond WilliamsB0B7289HKQ|title= Culture Conversations Across America: A Father and Society 1780-1950Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= From Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the last decades of way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the eighteenth century period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the final words of modernismTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industryVirginia to Astoria, democracy, class, art and cultureOregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. The meanings of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the era in recommended time - but there were factors which their implications were pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who consideredtaking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick West1739593901|title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 15|genre= Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions 'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of modern society flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and uses our society automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to explain his philosophymake. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but 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 best I can do from technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the blurb on technology and the backworld scape are purely incidental. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to cover So, what did I am still none the wiser about the purpose think of this a book. It appears to be a series of personal opinions held together with quotestwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articlesI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny LandrethJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= SwellThe Book of Hope |rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This The done thing is more than just (I say ''just''!) to read a recollection of book all the author's own encounters with water; way through before you sit down to review it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about itI’m making an exception here, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover I don’t want to lose any of the absurd. Not a lover experience of reading this amazing book blurbs myself, I do always seek want to give a shout-out to those who get capture it as it hits me. And it dead right: is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy1788360737|title= Artivism: The ExileBattle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= An account of 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 fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, ''even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Exile'' plunges into Battle for Museum in the murky waters Era of international terrorism, espionage and politicsPostmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view The recent trend of the subject so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and acting media elites hoping to enlighten create a more globalist and inform the readerprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1398508632|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is It had been on the cards for a fierce, witty and laughwhile but it was the week-out-loud funny ode to feminismlong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. In a series The end of open lettersNovember, she addresses particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the issues faced by every modern womanbest time to start, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in a world where the gymnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, as well as more personal issues, like Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her experiences was a known habitat with a variety of being 'catfished' terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and sent abuse onlinedehydrator. This is She had a vital read for any girl born in the 1990scar - and fuel. Most importantly, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its fun exteriorproduce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin1529149800|title=FlaneuseThings You Can Do: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and LondonSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=History Home and Family|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places whereWe begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking unable to think of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')anything they could do. When she imagines The tiny hummingbird flew to herself what the female version river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that well-known historical figure, the carefree doing. ''I'flâneurm doing the best I can'', might besaid the hummingbird. And that, really, she thinks about women who freely wandered is the world's great cities without having only way that we will solve the more insalubrious connotation problem of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saqib Noor1638485216|title=Surgery on the Shoulders of GiantsBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Letters from a doctor abroadA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45

|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The letters begin much in the fashion murder of any young George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man away from home, perhaps in on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a quite exciting countryforty-four-year-old police officer, writing back to family and friends to tell them in the US city of his experiences, Minneapolis sent shock waves around the sights heworld. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's seen neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the people he's metprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. It's There was a backlash against the police - and not just a little different in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''Surgery on all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthieu Aikins|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Shoulders of GiantsWater|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn' though: Saqib Noor t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a junior doctorcriticism, training but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to be an orthopaedic surgeon accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and over a period gripping accounts of ten years he visited six countries, not as border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a tourist but haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to give medical assistanceperfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4. They5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that're countries which Noor describes as s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''fourth worldprime'' movers are the special advisers - third world with added disaster the SPADS - and their need is desperatewho 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 man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1521173192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Asher1846276772|title= Man UpThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= When 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 couple part of years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn'good ladt pass the medical become a part of an organisation it' sessions for boyss rare that their views are heard, all debate broke loosethat their concerns are acknowledged. Shouldn It't consent be self-evident s personally appalling and degrading for everyone? Would the workshops reinforce individuals on the stereotype receiving end of the bias but it'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops be anything else than a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>s not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grindrod1529148251|title= OutskirtsMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 45|genre =Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary=''OutskirtsHow 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.' is an interesting take on ' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a phenomenon certain frame of the modern age: the introduction mind. You're not going to read a book of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estatesessays or a self-help book. John Grindrod grew up on You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the edge of one such estate in television industry at the 1960Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be 's and '70reading''s, as he puts it, the book but you need to ''I grew up on the last road in London.listen'' Grindrod explores to the introduction of the green belt, and words as though you're in the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisionslecture theatre. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a memoir with a lot cloud of heartexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carolina de Robertis0008350388|title= Radical HopeWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating= 45|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk 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.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the United StatesUK from Kenya when she was five years old. Since then many Americans have been overcome Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with fearher father joining them later. The family was hard-working, worrying about what will become principled 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 American society during Trump's administrationanything: it was simply carefully harvested. Carolina de Robertis When Otegha was no exception ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to this fear a private school in London and in response then a place at New College, Oxford.}} {{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to the newly elected President Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and his policies she put out a call for actionsometimes books choose us. Radical Hope In my case, this is one of the outcome to latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this callbook I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. De Robertis reached out I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to fellow writers and activists asking for lettersgive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, predominantly letters of love, addressed so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew d'Ancona1787332098|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackLove Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=''Our own post-truth era is what happens when 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 relaxes its defence : cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of values that underpin cohesionwild animals stay out there, namely veracity''somewhere, honesty and accountability'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough was going to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells youargue. I've been suspicious mean, cows are for a decade or more, but itcheese (I couldn's become difficult to ignore t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the change in political attitudes since Brexit and wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the election sake of Donald Trumpit. With regard Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to the latter, when Trump was challenged on a statement he'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was ''Who cares if animals - and I got it wrong?'' consider myself an animal lover. He was able to tap If I had to choose between the company of humans and the fading concept company of 'animals, I would probably choose the American Dream' - those Americans who were used animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to waiting patiently in line stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants fish and public sector workers''I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1523092734|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back BritainA Women's WildlifeGuide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 45|genre= Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary= Wildlife has been declining ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in Britain over her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the last few decades; it life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which much in the modern world has increased significantlynews, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Through Now - to be clear - this book Moss suggests is not a few ways in which we can start 'how to bring back some of Britaindisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's wildlife without compromising something far more effective, but discussion at the human way of life: 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 we can co-exist with natureare not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick CleggPolly Barton|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesFifty Sounds

|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at 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 if the momentworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. A little more than two years ago we were facing And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the end question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the UKquestion in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''s .|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on maps and first coalition government since World War II -person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and fully expecting that we would see anothercuriosity. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majorityUnfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Brexit saw Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the end of one Prime Minister guts to simply go out and another elected by a few members of parliamentdo it. As I write wealso didn're facing another general electiont inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with a Conservative landslide predictedthe requisite 'bottle'. In two years weorder words I've seen m not the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part sort of the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold person who will get on a meeting in bike outside a decent-sized carLondon hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>1788161211