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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottAlastair Humphreys|title= I Should Know That - Great BritainLocal|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I am have learnt about some big issues from a dreadful Brityear exploring a small map. I Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…''m better at One of the geography joys of Colombia than the UK (true story, I had to google where Essex book for me was that the other day). Despite 17 years biggest thing he learned about all of full time education in the UKthese things was that there are no easy answers, I probably wouldnno single 'right or wrong't pass a simple citizenship test. Which , that every upside is likely to have a little embarrassing, really. So when this book came up for review I thought I'd have it, both downside for interest somebody and as a subtle way to brush up on my Britainthat there are some hard choices ahead. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>1785633678

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1739593901|title=Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives 22 Ideas About The Future|ratingauthor=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Generation Z, for anyone like me who didn’t know, is made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. It is one of the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book 'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British history. From the radical technological innovation which produced the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, life for these children and teenagers is characterised by so much that was not experienced by their parents and 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 Benjamin Greenaway and adults'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Azzi in BetweenStephen 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 We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to our attention as First Lady the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and even then she might have faded flying back to drop them into international obscurity had it not been for the way in which she managed to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill - well, HRC wasn't 'fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. 'involved'' but I'm sure you know what doing the best Ican'm talking about', said the hummingbird. Then she re-emerged through And that, really, is the fog of the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain only way that we will solve the Democratic nomination, losing in a hotly contested series problem of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary climate change – by each of State. Now the question is whether or not she will make another run for President in 2016us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)1638485216|title=The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightened. There were specific fearsBlack, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened of life - and then there was a memory. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can in the desert. It was almost on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North CarolinaWhite, which might sound like a great adventure, but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on 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 NorwayGray All Over: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in OsloA Black Man's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island Odyssey in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at the camp – Life and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLaw Enforcement|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeFrederick Reynolds

|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It must be rare indeed that has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is forty-four-year-old police officer, in the subject US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of textChauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to There was a backlash against the life, times police - and career of Roy Jenkins not just in much less than thatMinneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan JonesMatthieu Aikins|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of Naked Don't Fear the Great CharterWater|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=For what do we – and 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 courtesy of any means a lengthy timeline in historycriticism, would the Americans likewise but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – most likely owe thanks a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – but also has time to talk about widows' rights, fish traps, recounts a vast and to be both sexist at times painful journey. There are tense moments and to discuss gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the importance to peoplewhole way through. But it'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 written with a haunting and discuss almost lyrical quality that allows the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than reader to perfectly envisage the Pope declared it null environments and void within ten weeks of its being finished?people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krishna Bhatt1785633074|title=The Royal EnigmaStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=24.5|genre=Historical FictionHumour|summary=There Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is absolutely nothing wrong with books run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that cross genres. The best historical novels 's for those of you who are as much history as fiction. However, it Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is a golden rule that a book must know the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who and what it isare the driving force behind the government. One 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 problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from a serious identity Covid crisiswhich 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>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hart1846276772|title=That's RacistThe End of Bias: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allWe Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|summary=Adrian Hart has 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 long history part of campaigning against racism, not least because he was subjected to racial abuse when he was at schooleveryday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. With jet-black hair and a complexion that was just ''slightly'' darker than was normal he was Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the closest that his school had to someone who might be preserve of Pakistani originthe white man. It was only name calling from Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a group part of boys but the experience stuck and hean organisation it's put much of his working life where his mouth israre that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. So, you might expect that he would be a devotee It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, bias but heit's far from certain that this is not just the right way to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca|author=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summaryisbn=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1529148251|title=How To Be Misfits: A ConservativePersonal Manifesto|author=Roger ScrutonMichaela Coel|rating=3.5

|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one of the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatism'. His central theme in this book is How am I able to defend be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and champion the value of the homepoverty, a society based on free association and yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the nation statetruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. The simplest '' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up mind. You're not from ‘privileged’ stock but within going to read a book of essays or a Labourself-voting, lower middle class family, help book. You're going to demonstrate that his conservatism read writing which was not inherited 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 product cloud of his own intellectual journeyexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=The Wall Between UsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Matthew SmallOtegha Uwagba|rating=45

|summary=In this personal account ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, 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 his visit colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to Israel the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and the West Banknine. It was her mother who came first, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the way and attempts to make sense best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of the conflict that has dominated money although this area for many yearsdid not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. Small openly admits When Otegha was ten the issue there is not family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a simple one private school in London and his visit reinforces the fact that there are many complexities preventing peace from happeningthen a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan ShawRichard Brook|title=Britain in a Perilous WorldUnderstanding Human Nature: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need A User's Guide to Life

|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and Security Review has stayed I much prefer my elephants in the mind wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the wrong reasons: rather than looking sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to develop a strategy, animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to examine choose between the short company of humans and long term threats which the country facedcompany of animals, I would probably choose the emphasis was on cutting costs, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glanceanimals. In the intervening years there have been occasions when it I insisted that I read this book: no one was difficult not trying to wonder if the United Kingdom stop me but I was poorly equipped - initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without clear-cut aims - as a result of the 2010 reviewguilt or change my choices. The opportunity to put this right comes in 2015 and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks I suspected that making the decision would not at what the Review should say, but at how it should be tackledcomfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1523092734|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=4.5|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=There are people who don't understand 'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the joy life of raw datachoosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: no accompanying analysis (or spin) - just at a collection of figures relevant time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to a particular circumstanceClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. If you're one of those people then Now - to be clear - this book will mean little is not a 'how to youdisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be a treasure''protected''. I once gave a copy 've always thought that women need to a diplomat and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had rise above this, to know without delaybe people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtIf all women did this, those 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>1781252734</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful GovernmentPolly Barton|authortitle=Ed StrawFifty Sounds

|summary=Confidence in politicians is at an allWhere 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 world hadn't gone into melt-time lowdown I would have visited by now. In fact, an alarming number of Britons express outright contemptI may get there later this year, but I am not just for their leadershopeful. And like Barton, but for I don't know the answer to the entire political class - for question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the politicans themselves, for question in the civil servants standing behind themfirst essay, even for which is on the Westminster bubble of commentators and policy wonks. We vote for them in ever-decreasing numbers and even those who continue to vote often do not feel represented. Worse stillsound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, the younger you areamong other things, the more likely sound of ''every party where you are have to be politically disengaged. Weintroduce yourself''re in danger of losing an entire generation from the political process. How can this be good for a democracy?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Harry's Last StandStephen Fabes|authortitle=Harry Leslie SmithSigns of Life

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose to prominence last year with a famous Guardian article 'This yearI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I will wear a poppy for the last timedidn' about the way in t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the remembrance of those who died in the great wars has been co-opted guts to justify today’s military conflictssimply go out and do it. Here, he tackles themes I also didn't inherit the kind of poverty, political corruption, unemploymentsteady nerve, ability to talk to strangers 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'm not the sort of person who will get on a lack of hope felt by so many people todaybike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor Single, Again, and Again, and Her WorldAgain|author=Stefan KorneliusLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=''You have to admire the lady, this rather awkward can't be happy and shy daughter of fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholicman''. His daughter studied with such intelligence and application that soon  This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistry. At It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the age of 26, girl (she obtained 's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her doctorate and - in passing, it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkelso that they can live happily ever after. Her rise Few girls are lucky enough to power was rapid be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and took place through the period in which the DDR collapsed as Russian policy under Gorbachev changedhave children. Along with It was a wry belief and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''fleissiga belief is a choice'' - hardworking, sedulous, diligent and assiduous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>