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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienAlastair Humphreys|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportLocal|rating=4.5|genre=SportTravel |summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend Alastair Humphreys has walked and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? cycled all over the world. And then written about it. What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties For this book he walked and follows the case as it goes cycled very close to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved home and digressing into related areasthen wrote about it. In deference to As he says in his introduction, the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name of book is an attempt 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speakshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. You could Google the facts Nature loss, pollution, land use and come up with access, agriculture, the correct namefood system, but this isnrewilding…''t a One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of gossip about particular people. Itthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong's an investigation of , that every upside is likely to have a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commoditiesdownside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McMillanEdel Rodriguez|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatWorm: In search of the meaning of YorkshireA Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Ian McMillanWe're in childhood, poetand we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, radio presenterand Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshiremannot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, is worriedthose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. It has crossed his mind that Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he might not would probably be ''Yorkshire enough''shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, given that his such as Angola) and the father was being watched and watched, and not from God's Own Countyliked for his successful photography business, but was a Scot by birthsuccess being frowned upon. In a series The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of discursions on the subject heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of Yorkshire he attempts to distil the essence heat forcing you out of the county kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to understand what being connection in a Yorkshireman meansfractured world|rating=3. 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in 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! To Precisely this end we accompany him through towns .'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and cities, precious life the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattressway I want to. Amongst othersSarah Wilson is equally lucky. All of Yorkshire 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 herean unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Including Yorkshire puddingsDon'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>0091959950</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1785633457|title= Buy Me The SkyCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and whilst I havenhis wife, Joan, shouldn't read all of her books, every one that I have read has at some point had me in tears. This one was no different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1529153050|title=Food Bank Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for food, less than a mile Seeking some light relief from the riches of the City of London. Intrigued as current political turmoil which is coming to what seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was going on he went to ask. The man explained to him that henudged towards ''Britain'd just got a job after two years s Best Political Cartoons of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paid2022''. He couldnSharp eyes will have noted that we't claim benefits as he was in work and had no savings, so re not yet through the bins had to be his source of food and by year: the following week he would have to walk cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to work as he couldn't afford the fares31 August 2022. That was Who can imagine what there will be to come in the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe CombiB0B7289HKQ|title=Generation ZConversations Across America: Their VoicesA Father and Son, Their Lives Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Generation ZKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, for anyone by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like me who didn’t know, is a good time to do it. The decision was made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. It is one of to ride the central contentions Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of Chloe Combi’s book 'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s it - in British history2015. From They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the radical technological innovation recommended time - but there were factors which produced the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, life pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for these children most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and teenagers is characterised by so much that he was not experienced by their parents and grandparents. In 'Generation Z', then, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today, in what she wishes to be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adultssuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1739593901|title=Azzi in Between22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=''Our story begins in a country at warfuture will be more complex than we expected. Unfortunately you could probably put a name Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularlytrack grandma. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too' I' affected by the war, but every day it came ve got a little closercouple of confessions to make. Her father still worked I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a doctor few stories and her mother made beautiful clothesthen forget to return to the book. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsThere's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugeestechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again itIt's not named) human beings who fascinate me: the technology and they had the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a homebook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, although I loved it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Where's the Elephant?The Book of Hope

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society |summary=We've The done thing is to read a book all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, haven't we? They appeal because I don’t want to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's lose any of the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasmexperience of reading this amazing book, keen I want to show just how observant they arecapture it as it hits me. We start off with a forest - actually And it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in thereis hitting me. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are This beautiful book has me in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like thistears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Treglown1788360737|title=Franco's CryptArtivism: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=3.52|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=With ''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscopevacuum. His aim appears 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 twofoldpolitical, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: to consider the nature of collective memory, particularly The Battle for Museum in the light Era of the exhumations Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of mass graves that commenced earlier this century, 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, secondly, media elites hoping to examine – create a more globalist and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1398508632|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=It's no mistake that had been on the cover of my edition of this book is cards for a photo where while but it was the Transweek-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the framelong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. It's well known for going east-westThe end of November, left to right across the map of the largest country by far particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow best time to the eastern stretches of Russiastart, it could only be in a long, thin line across world where the covernormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport Brexit and a travel destination in its own rightpandemic. So when this book mentions it as Wilde had a few advantages: the spine or backbone of Russia area around her was a known habitat with a couple variety of times, that's got terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to be of run a prone Russia – one lying downfridge, not upright or activefreezer and dehydrator. David Greene, She had a stalwart of northern American radio journalismcar - and fuel. Most importantly, uses she had shelter: this book was not a plan to see ''live'' wild just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piecelive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes1529149800|title=HRCThings You Can Do: State Secrets How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for the way in which she managed to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents We begin with Bill - well, HRC wasn't ''involved'' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking abouta telling story. Then she re-emerged through All the fog of birds and animals fled when the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in a hotly contested series forest fire took hold and most of primaries to Barack Obama - them stood and went on watched, unable to become his Secretary think of Stateanything they could do. Now The tiny hummingbird flew to the question is whether or not she will make another run for President in 2016.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike McIntyre river and Chris Brinkley (narrator)|title=The Kindness began taking tiny amounts of Strangers: Penniless Across America|rating=4water and flying back to drop them into the fire.5|genre=Travel|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secretThe animals laughed: he was frightened. There were specific fears, but what it boiled down to good was that he was frightened of life - and then there was a memorydoing. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas ''I'm doing the best I can in '', said the deserthummingbird. It was almost on a whim And that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolinareally, which might sound like a great adventure, but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on is the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)|title=Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and only way that we will solve the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten problem of those at the camp climate change – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another by each of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and us doing what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This iswe can, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the casehowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Campbell1638485216|title=Roy JenkinsBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Well-Rounded Black Man's Odyssey in Lifeand Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds

|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister ''Corruption is the subject of not department, gender or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textrace specific. However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult It has everything to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatwith character. Period.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Dan Jones|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time to talk about widows' rights, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to people's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>}}One more body just wouldn't matter''.

{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genresmurder 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. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionWe rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. However, it The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is a golden rule that a book must know who not one which I'll ever forget and what it isthe protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. One of There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from a serious identity crisisChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartMatthieu Aikins|title=ThatThe Naked Don's Racist: How t Fear the regulation of speech and thought divides us allWater

|summary=Adrian Hart has a long history of campaigning against racismIt's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, not least because he was subjected to racial abuse when he was it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at schooltimes. With jet-black hair and This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a complexion that was just ''slightly'' darker than was normal he was the closest that his school had testament to someone how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who might be of Pakistani origin. It was only name calling decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a group of boys but the experience stuck vast and he's put much of his working life where his mouth isat times painful journey. So, you might expect that he would be a devotee There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, but hewhole way through. But it's far from certain written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that this is allows the right way reader to go perfectly envisage the environments and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaStaggering Hubris|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfJosh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHumour|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think Members of doingParliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, there is a reason why we shouldnheaded by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares''t be doing it, and people to back (that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect 's for those of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that could provoke a serious illness or worsethe ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. And outside that daily sphere there We are economic disastersin the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of an eye2020. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>watch.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How To Be A ConservativeWe Change Our Minds|author=Roger ScrutonJessica Nordell|rating=34.5

|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 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'one s simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatism'disabled. His central theme in this book is to defend and champion Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the value preserve of the homewhite man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, a society based that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on free association and the nation state. The simplest receiving end of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock bias but within a Labour-voting, lower middle class family, to demonstrate that his conservatism was it's not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journeyjust the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>

Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=The Wall Between UsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Matthew SmallOtegha Uwagba|rating=45

|summary=In this personal account of his visit ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to Israel and the West Bankbe seen as less desirable, less hireable, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along the way less intelligent and attempts ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to make sense Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of the conflict that has dominated this area for many years. Small openly admits the issue there is not English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a simple one and his visit reinforces the fact that there are many complexities preventing peace from happeningwoman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>}}'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{newreview|author=Jonathan Shaw|title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review has stayed in the mind for the wrong reasons: rather than looking to develop a strategy, Otegha Uwagba came to examine the short UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and long term threats which the country faced, the emphasis nine. It was on cutting costsher mother who came first, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glanceher father joining them later. In The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the intervening years there have been occasions when it best education possible. There was difficult always a painful awareness of money although this did not to wonder if the United Kingdom was poorly equipped - and without clear-cut aims - as translate into a result shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the 2010 reviewfamily acquired a car. The opportunity For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to put this right comes a private school in 2015 London and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks not then a place at what the Review should sayNew College, but at how it should be tackledOxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The EconomistRichard Brook|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=There are people who don't understand the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just I am a collection of figures relevant to a particular circumstancefirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. If you're In my case, this is one of those people then the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book will mean little to youI'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasureit would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I once gave a copy was likely to give it a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had to know without delayfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. The 2015 edition is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreview|title=Stand and Deliver: A Design I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for Successful Government|author=Ed Straw|rating=4cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...5|genre=Politics ) and Society|summary=Confidence I much prefer my elephants in politicians is at an all-time low. In fact, an alarming number of Britons express outright contempt, not just for their leaders, the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the entire political class sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - for and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the politicans themselves, for company of humans and the civil servants standing behind themcompany of animals, even for I would probably choose the Westminster bubble of commentators and policy wonksanimals. We vote for them in ever-decreasing numbers and even those who continue I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to vote often do not feel representedstop me but I was initially reluctant. Worse still I eat cheese, the younger you areeggs, the more likely you are chicken and fish and I needed to be politically disengagedeither do so without guilt or change my choices. We're in danger of losing an entire generation from I suspected that making the political processdecision would not be comfortable. How can this be good for a democracy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=HarryA Women's Last StandGuide to Claiming Space|author=Harry Leslie SmithEliza Van Cort

|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose to prominence last year with ''She brings a famous Guardian article hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.''This year(Alma Derricks, I will wear a poppy for the last timeformer CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) '' about the way in which To claim space is to live the remembrance life of those who died in choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the great wars has been co-opted to justify today’s military conflictslife you've always wanted. Here, he tackles themes of poverty, political corruption, unemployment, and a lack of hope felt by so many people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Angela MerkelSometimes the reviewing gods are generous: The Chancellor and Her World|author=Stefan Kornelius|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=You have to admire at a time when violence against women is much in the ladynews, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this rather awkward and shy daughter of book is not a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholic. His daughter studied 'how to disable your attacker with such intelligence and application that soon brought her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistry. At the age of 26, she obtained her doctorate and - in passing, two simple jabs' manual: it rather seems - her first husband's something far more effective, but discussion at the physicist Ulrike Merkel. Her rise moment seems to power was rapid and took place through the period in which the DDR collapsed as Russian policy under Gorbachev changed. Along with a wry and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as be about how women can be ''protected''fleissig. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don' - hardworkingt need protection, sedulouspeople who claim their own space. If all women did this, diligent and assiduousthose few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=An Atheist's History of BeliefPolly Barton|authortitle=Matthew KnealeFifty Sounds

|summary=I’ve Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been an atheist since I was old enough to take on my radar for a view on while and if the subjectworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. (Many atheists would argue that we’re all atheists at birthI may get there later this year, but that’s I am not a subject for a book review)hopeful. And like Barton, I did don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question 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 take Religious Studies at school but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Notebooks, 1922-86Stephen Fabes|authortitle=Michael OakeshottSigns of Life|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Michael Oakeshott is usually described as a conservative thinkerI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. According to Perry Anderson Unfortunately, his work influenced John MajorI didn's style of politics; he named him in t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the London Review of Books in 1992 as one of four ‘outstanding European theorists of guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the intransigent Right’. Luke O’Sullivan, who edited this collection kind of notebookssteady nerve, has often said ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that he considers such descriptions limitingI would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. O’Sullivan is clearly enthusiastic about Oakeshott’s work In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and strove to enable these notebooks, spanning a period of over sixty not come home for six years, to be published. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845400542</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives Single, Again, and Again, and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday LifeAgain|author=Uri Gneezy and John ListLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Wow! This is ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a most surprising economics bookman''.

Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patternsThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for It wasn't unkind: it was simply the price of two, adults in her life advising her as to come back next week for £10 off a £100, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t what they just go thought would be best for a cheaper price at her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the point of sale? Why do profits have to be in double percentage point increases year on year?girl (she's usually fairly young)is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. A fair bit of manipulation Few girls are lucky enough to ensure be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a company survives is already part belief and parcel of our lives. If you’d asked me it would be many years before I read this book, I Louisa would have lined up conclude that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are different: they really do seem to care about the plight of the underprivileged, and they come from an academic setting, rather than ''a belief is a commercial onechoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk>