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<!-- Wolff -->{{Frontpage[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|leftauthor=Alastair Humphreys|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ieLocal|rating=UTF8&tag5|genre=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]Travel  ==|summary=[[Fire Alastair Humphreys has walked and Fury: Inside cycled all over the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4world.5star And then written about it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics For this book he walked and Society|Politics cycled very close to home and Society]] then wrote about it. As I began listening to he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''Fire to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and Fury: Inside access, agriculture, the Trump White Housefood system, rewilding…'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle One of the President joys of the United States taking to Twitter to establish book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a stable geniusdownside 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 revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as opposeda saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, we must conclude and not done nearly enough to being an unstable..create a level playing field for all. Well, let's not go therethose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. ItOur narrator's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man family weren't in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Wellhappiest of places here, Donald Trump didn't want me an uncle refusing to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a be the good destination soldier the country demanded (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon hereespecially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and that made me really want to know what was between the coversfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. But how did The mother gets the couple jobs with the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the Trump White House by Michael Wolffkitchen…|Full Review]]isbn=1474616720<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kurt AndersenSarah Wilson|title= FantasylandThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= History Lifestyle|summary= Fantasyland covers My favourite Mary Oliver line is the history of America from 1517 one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to 2017 in awesome detaillove that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints '' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the conjuring of America in vivid reliefway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. Discussing everything from pilgrims 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 politiciansthink 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 exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes fact that we are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witnot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nathan Connolly1785633457|title=Know Your PlaceCharging Around: Essays on Exploring the Working Class Edges of England by the Working ClassElectric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Simple summary: ''Know Your Place'' is an anthology Clive Wilkinson has a history of essays on the working class travelling by the working classunconventional means with a preference for slow travel. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to As he neared his eightieth birthday the seaside, access to idea of exploring the artsedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, food povertyit should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, pub cultureJoan, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much more. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911585363</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

 <!-- Smith -->[[image:Smith_Dont.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147212345X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147212345X]] ===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]Frontpage Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part autobiography and part rallying call for society to tackle the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people of the United Kingdom, particularly in the North. Through reflecting on his own experiences during his childhood, Harry Leslie Smith has painted a frank and uncompromising picture of the grim, appallingly miserable childhood he had to endure due to the poverty faced by his family contrasted with the, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today in a country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil. [[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Bristow -->[[image:Bristow China.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]] ===[[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]==isbn=1529153050 [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to that, 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 worldBritain's most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=Francis O'Gorman|title=Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of AmnesiaTim Benson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=After a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something of a Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to encounter seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''ForgetfulnessBritain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022', Francis O'Gorman. Sharp eyes will have noted that we's thinking on why re not yet through the twenty-first century is losing touch with year: the past, on why cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what is likely - or could there will be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone before. The book is supremely intelligent, but with come in the knowledge worn lightly and it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart MaconieB0B7289HKQ|title= Long Road From JarrowConversations 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|rating= 54|genre= Travel |summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-way) wanted to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a soul more sensitive than he might be willing good time to admitdo it. Let's be honest The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, thoughVirginia to Astoria, I picked this one up because Oregon - all 4250 miles of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up it - in2015. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the Jarrow Crusade recommended time - but when he talks about there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow would be for most people who considered taking it does become part of my history tooon. Tangentially, at leastMerv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raymond Williams1739593901|title= Culture 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Society 1780-1950Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= From the last decades ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the eighteenth century book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the final words of modernism, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key wordsworld-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: industry, democracy, class, art the technology and culturethe world scape are purely incidental. The meanings So, what did I think of a book of such thingstwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, their essence, changes as per their use and the era in which their implications were consideredI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Patrick WestJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our timesThe Book of Hope |rating= 15|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions of modern society and uses our society The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to explain his philosophy. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but review it's the best I can do from the blurb on the back. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to coverI’m making an exception here, because I am still none don’t want to lose any of the wiser about the purpose experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. It appears to be a series of personal opinions held together with quotes, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articlesThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Landreth1788360737|title= SwellArtivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 52

|summary= I love Jenny's own description of her book as Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our ownvacuum. This It is more than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurdart for art’s sake. Not a lover The recent trend of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shoutso-out called artivism has caused artists to those who get it dead rightbecome more overtly political (read: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''gigglesleft wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-on-the-commute funny''wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy1398508632|title= The ExileWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= An account 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 the fate eating only wild food. The end of Al Qaeda and November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the Bin Laden family since best time to start, in a world where the events of 9/11normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, ''The Exile'' plunges into Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the murky waters area around her was a known habitat with a variety of international terrorismterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, espionage freezer and politicsdehydrator. Detailed She had a car - and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all anglesfuel. Most importantly, providing she had shelter: this was not a panoramic view of the subject and acting plan to ''live'' wild just to enlighten and inform the readerlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1529149800|title= Things You Can I Speak Do: How to Someone in Charge?Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is We begin with a fierce, witty telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminism. In a series most of open lettersthem stood and watched, she addresses the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair unable to being made think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences river and began taking tiny amounts of being water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''catfishedI' and sent abuse onlinem doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. This And that, really, is a vital read for any girl born in the 1990sonly way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>

<!-- Elkin -->{{Frontpage[[image:Elkin_Flaneuse.jpg|leftisbn=1638485216|linktitle=httpsBlack, White, and Gray All Over://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099593378?ieA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=UTF8&tagFrederick Reynolds|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campAutobiography|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099593378]]''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''

[[The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The imageof Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis:4starwhatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthieu Aikins|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through.jpgBut it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|linkisbn=Category:{B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|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's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}} Star Reviews]] [[{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias:Category:HistoryHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|History]]summary=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:Categoryit's simply a part of 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't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=Misfits:AutobiographyA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|Autobiography]]summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''

Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: theyBefore you start reading ''re places where you canMisfits't or shouldn't you need to be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking a certain frame of everything from mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You'Madame Bovary're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel' s 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''Revolutionary Roadreading''). When she imagines the book but you need to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneurlisten'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered to the worldwords as though you's great cities without having re in the more insalubrious connotation lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of the word exquisite writing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary='streetwalker' applied To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to them. [[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New Yorkbe seen as less desirable, Tokyoless hireable, Venice less intelligent and London ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Lauren Elkin|Full Review]]<br>Otegha Uwagba

<!-- Noor -->[[image:Noor_Surgery''0.jpg|left|link=https://www7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1521173192?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1521173192]]'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

===[[Surgery on Otegha Uwagba came to the Shoulders UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, 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 Giantsanything: Letters from 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 then a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor]]===place at New College, Oxford.}}

[[image{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature:4starA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyLifestyle|Autobiography]]summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] The letters begin much in sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the fashion latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of any young man away from it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home, perhaps ' in a quite exciting country, writing back the way that it does now. I believe it came to family and friends me not just because I was likely to tell give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them of his experiencesrandomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the sights hebook, even if it doesn's seen and the people het always turn out that way's met. It's just ] – but also because it is a little different book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Surgery When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on the Shoulders of Giants'' though. And we assign them places in society: Saqib Noor is a junior doctorcows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, training to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period millions of ten years he visited six countrieswild animals stay out there, not as a tourist but to give medical assistance. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth worldsomewhere,'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperate. [[Surgery hopefully on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor|Full Review]]<br>next David Attenborough series.''

{{newreview|author= Rebecca Asher|title= Man Up|rating= 5|genre= Politics I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and Society|summary= When a couple I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of years ago it. Essentially that quote sums up my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with attitude to animals - and I consider myself an option of 'good lad' sessions for boys, all debate broke looseanimal lover. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would If I had to choose between the workshops reinforce company of humans and the stereotype company of 'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be anything else than a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>comfortable.

<!-- Grindrod -->[[image:Grindrod Outskirts.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473625025]] ===[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]=== [[image:4star It is to live the life you've always wanted.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]''

''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of Sometimes the modern agereviewing gods are generous: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate at a time when violence against women is much in the 1960news, 's and '70A Women's, as he puts it, Guide to Claiming Space''I grew up on the last road in Londonby Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within Now - to be clear - this topic, he has somehow managed book is not a 'how to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir disable your attacker with a lot of heart. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Carolina de Robertis|title= Radical Hope|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, Donald Trump was elected as but discussion at the 46th President of the United States. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fear, worrying moment seems to be about what will become of American society during Trumphow women can be ''protected''s administration. Carolina de Robertis was no exception I've always thought that women need to rise above this fear and in response , to the newly elected President and his policies she put out a call for actionbe people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. Radical Hope is the outcome to If all women did this call. De Robertis reached out , those few men who are violent to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of love, addressed women would realise that we are not just an easy target to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order be used to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew d'AnconaPolly Barton|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackFifty Sounds|rating=34.5

|summary=Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Our own post-truth era is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values that underpin cohesion, namely veracity, honesty and accountability.Why Japan?'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough to believe that when making Japan has been on my radar for a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what while and if the candidate tells youworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I've been suspicious for a decade or moremay get there later this year, but itI am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don's become difficult t know the answer to ignore the change question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in political attitudes since Brexit and respect of the election of Donald Trump. With regard to question in the latterfirst essay, when Trump was challenged which is on a statement hethe sound 'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was 'giro'Who cares if I got it wrong?'' He was able to tap to – which she describes as being, among other things, the fading concept sound of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who were used every party where you have to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants and public sector workersintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen MossFabes|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeSigns of Life|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate byI was brought up on maps and first-product person narratives of human population growthtales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which in was the modern world has increased significantlyguts to simply go out and do it. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to bring back some of Britainstrangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I's wildlife without compromising m not the human way sort of life: we can co-exist with natureperson who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Clegg1504321383|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the momentadults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. A little more than two years ago we were facing It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the end of the UKgirl (she's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that we would see anotherthey can live happily ever after. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the end of one Prime Minister expectation that they will marry and another elected by a few members of parliamenthave children. As I write we're facing another general election, with It was a Conservative landslide predicted. In two belief and it would be many years webefore Louisa would conclude that ''ve seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold belief is a meeting in a decent-sized carchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>