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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny RogersAlastair Humphreys|title=Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public RelationsLocal|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance Travel |summary= I dithered Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about how it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to begin this reviewhome and then wrote about it. On one hand As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I thought I should probably start by saying have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that I every upside is likely to have a work related interest downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in marketing childhood, and communicationswe're in Cuba. On The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the other handcountry, Danny Rogers has written proven himself a book which appealed Communist, and not done nearly enough to me on several levelscreate a level playing field for all. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – which Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept deliverytaking his time away. In short Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, I was looking forward an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to reading ease some of the heat, but in this for many reasons – and sultry island country, it didn’t disappoint.remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill LeovySarah Wilson|title=GhettosideThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=There are 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! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough LA rappers around to attest that be living as a black man in South Central my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is no easy taskequally lucky. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your peril, In her book that takes Oliver's words as crude they may be, but her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''Ghettosideare'' will soon inform living the disbeliever that life on we want – the streets of LA best life that we could be living. Her answer is hardan unequivocal ''no, we are not''. With a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person in AmericaDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, what made I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the LA of the 80s through to the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black men?fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1785633457|title= Why the Dutch are DifferentCharging Around: A Journey into Exploring the Hidden Heart Edges of the Netherlands England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 45|genre= Travel|summary= I know Holland Clive 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 the way everyone doesan electric car was not totally outrageous. Pancakes and windmills and PotIn fact, oh my. But it's one of the few European countries I've never lived in should be a pleasant holiday for any period of timeClive and his wife, Joan, and so I was intrigued to know more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1529153050|title= I Used to Know That: HistoryBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary= Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, Iwas nudged towards ''ve picked up a few things over the years, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (thereBritain's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom Best Political Cartoons of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn2022''t happen). But I Sharp eyes will have gaps, of this I am sure, and I thought to get a basic understanding of, well, the basics noted that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Marriott|title= I Should Know That - Great Britain|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I am a dreadful Brit. I'm better at re not yet through the geography of Colombia than year: the UK (true story, I had cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to google where Essex was the other day)31 August 2022. Despite 17 years of full time education Who can imagine what there will be to come in the UK, I probably wouldn't pass a simple citizenship test. Which is a little embarrassing, really. So when this book came up for review I thought I'd have it, both for interest and as a subtle way to brush up on my Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony WilkinsonB0B7289HKQ|title=Capitalism Conversations Across America: A Father and Human ValuesSon, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Tony Wilkinson has a first class honours degree in philosophy Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and has worked in government service and investment management - the ideal background for period between two jobs seemed like a consideration of capitalism and the human values which propel good time to do it. It's not too long ago - certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated The decision was made to ride the values held by individualsTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, but true religious belief now seems Virginia to be the exception rather than the ruleAstoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. In its place we have a society for whom consumerism is They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the driving force recommended time - and but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a widening gap between those challenge that it would be for most people who can afford to consume and those who cannotconsidered taking it on. As Wilkinson says Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer''Getting and spending have come to define who we ares.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Gittos1739593901|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=It is said that ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we live in got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a rape culturecouple of confessions to make. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes is I'm not keen on the increase short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and that the police and the courts are failing then forget to return to deal with the problembook. There's got to be a belief that 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 rate of conviction is consistently lowworld-building. It's also said that sexism human beings who fascinate me: the technology and misogyny have created a society in which rape is a regular occurrence, frequently not reported to the police and that society at large doesn't really careworld scape are purely incidental. Luke GittosSo, what did I think of a solicitor practicing criminal lawbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of the statistics and that far from ''improving'' the way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with I loved it's actually working against the interests of victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side The Book of SportHope |rating=4.5|genre=SportPolitics and Society |summary=Mere mortals relax by having The done thing is to read a game of footy of a weekend and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do book all the way through before you sit down to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of review it. I’m making an Australian Rules footballerexception here, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes because I don’t want to court, interviewing some lose any of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name experience of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing fieldreading this amazing book, so I want to speakcapture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn't a This beautiful book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commoditiesme in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McMillan1788360737|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatArtivism: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet The Battle for Museums in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be ''Yorkshire enough'', 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 Era of the county and to understand what being a Yorkshireman means. To this end we accompany him through towns and cities, 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 mattress. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPostmodernism|author= Xinran|title= Buy Me The SkyAlexander Adams|rating= 52

|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoCan art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, and whilst I haven't read all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of her books, every one Postmodernism’ is adamant that I art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have read has been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at some point had me in tears. This one was no differentleast that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1398508632|title=Food Bank BritainThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as It had been on the cards for a smartlywhile but it was the week-dressed young man foraged long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in waste bins for foodCentral Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, less than in a mile from world where the riches of the City of Londonnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Intrigued as to what Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was going on he went to aska known habitat with a variety of terrains. The man explained She had electricity which allowed her to him that he'd just got run a job after two years of being unemployedfridge, but it would be five weeks before he was paidfreezer and dehydrator. He couldn't claim benefits as he was in work She had a car - and had no savingsfuel. Most importantly, so the bins she had shelter: this was not a plan to be his source of food and by the following week he would have to walk ''live'' wild just to work as he couldn't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank]live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1529149800|title=Generation ZThings You Can Do: Their Voices, Their Lives How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Generation Z, for anyone like me who didn’t know, is made up of those young people born between 1995 We begin with a telling story. All the birds and 2001. It is one of animals fled when the central contentions forest fire took hold and most of Chloe Combi’s book 'Generation Z: Their voicesthem stood and watched, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British historyunable to think of anything they could do. From The tiny hummingbird flew to the radical technological innovation which produced the internet river and began taking tiny amounts of water and smart phones flying back 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 drop them into the worlds of young people today, in fire. The animals laughed: what she wishes to be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Azzi in Between|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Our story begins in a country at wargood was that doing. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularly. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not 'I'toom doing the best I can'' affected by , said the war, but every day it came a little closerhummingbird. Her father still worked as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to runAnd that, for their livesreally, and escape was is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by boat and they became refugees. The three each 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 it's not named) and they had a homeus doing what we can, although it was just one roomhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1638485216|title=WhereBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's the Elephant?Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=We've all had great fun 'Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with books such as character. Period.''Where 's Wally'', havenOne more body just wouldn't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen matter''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest forty- actually it's the Amazon Rainforest four-year- full of glorious colours and our three friendsold police officer, who are hiding in therethe US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration youFloyd'll find thems death was an exception. When you turn the page youThe image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll scan ever forget and the trees again and discover their hiding placesprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. You even wonder if it might get There was a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeremy Treglown|title=Franco's Cryptbacklash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=With whatever their colour or creed they were ''Franco’s Cryptall'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscope. His aim appears to be twofold: to consider tarred by the nature of collective memory, particularly in the light of the exhumations of mass graves that commenced earlier this century, and, secondly, to examine – and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GreeneMatthieu Aikins|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into The Naked Don't Fear the Heart of RussiaWater

|summary=It's no mistake easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the cover of my edition of this book is Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a photo where the Transwell-Siberian Railway paced thriller at times. This is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map of the largest country not by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be any means a long, thin line across the covercriticism, as it is in our imagination of it as but rather a form of transport and testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got to be of a prone Russia refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, recounts a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia vast and Russians at times painful journey. There are – tense moments and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictmentgripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. ItBut it's no mistake either for this cover written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for perfectly envisage the environments and people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piecedescribed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes1785633074|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came Members of Parliament like us to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the way in which she managed to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill Prime minister - well, HRC wasnthe 't 'primus inter pares'involved'(that' s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but Ithe reality is that the ''prime'm sure you know what I'm talking aboutmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Then she re-emerged through We are in the fog privileged position of the George W Bush presidency with her bid having access to gain the Democratic nominationmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, losing in a hotly contested series the man who was behind the skilful control of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of State2020. Now You might not know the question is whether or not she name now but he will make another run for President in 2016certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)1846276772|title=The Kindness End of StrangersBias: Penniless Across AmericaHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was 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 part of everyday life. White men will always come first. thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedThe able will come before the disabled. There were specific fearsJobs, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of life - and then there was a memorythe white man. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a hitchhiker with a gas can in the desertpart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It was almost 's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventure, the receiving end of the bias but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on 's not just the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fearsindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1529148251|title=Massacre in NorwayMisfits: 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 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 of those at the camp – 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>}}{{newreviewA Personal Manifesto|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeMichaela Coel

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It must 's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be rare indeed that in a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is the subject certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textself-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. However, You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as John Campbell demonstrates though you're in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and career you'll be carried on a cloud of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones0008350388|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=For what do we – ''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 courtesy Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a spigurnel? woman.'' 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 'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to be both sexist the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and to discuss the importance to people's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain in 1215The family was hard-working, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI principled and discuss determined that their children would have the 800 years best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of something else, even though the authority money although this did not translate into a shortage of no less than anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the Pope declared it null family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>then a place at New College, Oxford.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Krishna BhattRichard Brook|title=The Royal EnigmaUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=24.5|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books that cross genreschoose us. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionIn my case, this is one of the latter. HoweverNot so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is a golden rule that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book must know who and what , even if it is. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it suffers from is a serious identity crisisbook I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hart1787332098|title=That's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allto Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=4.5

|summary=Adrian Hart has a long history ''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 campaigning against racismwild animals stay out there, ''somewhere, not least because he '' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was subjected going to racial abuse when he was at schoolargue. With jet-black hair I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and a complexion I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was just ''slightly'' darker than was normal he was quibbling for the closest sake of it. Essentially that his school had quote sums up my attitude to someone who might be of Pakistani originanimals - and I consider myself an animal lover. It was only name calling from a group If I had to choose between the company of boys but humans and the experience stuck and he's put much company of his working life where his mouth is. Soanimals, you might expect that he I would be a devotee of probably choose the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, but he's far from certain animals. I insisted that I read this is the right way book: no one was trying to go stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and believes I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that this might making the decision would not be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfcomfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfEliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=We're screwed'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. Wherever we look'' (Alma Derricks, whatever we think of doingformer CMO, there Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, to live the life of choosing unapologetically and people to back that reason up with scientific databravely. Take any aspect of your daily It is to live the life – what you eat've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how you workto disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worsewomen can be ''protected''. And outside I've always thought that daily sphere there are economic disasterswomen need to rise above this, nuclear meltdownsto be people who don't need protection, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eyepeople who claim their own space. Perhaps then you better read If all women did this book first – for it may well turn out , those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>used to prove that they are big men.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How To Be A ConservativePolly Barton|authortitle=Roger ScrutonFifty Sounds|rating=34.5

|summary=Roger Scruton Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one of on my radar for a while and if the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatismworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. His central theme in I may get there later this book is year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to defend and champion the value question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the homequestion in the first essay, a society based which is on free association and the nation state. The simplest of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock but within a Labour-votingsound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, lower middle class familyamong other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to demonstrate that his conservatism was not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journeyintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Wall Between UsStephen Fabes|authortitle=Matthew SmallSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=In this personal account I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of his visit far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to Israel simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the West Bankkind of steady nerve, Small journals his time spent ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with people he meets along the way requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and attempts to make sense of the conflict that has dominated this area not come home for many six years. Small openly admits the issue there is not a simple one and his visit reinforces the fact Fabes did precisely that there are many complexities preventing peace from happening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Shaw1504321383|title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence Single, Again, and Security Review we need Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence ''You can't be happy and Security Review has stayed in the mind for the wrong reasons: rather than looking to develop fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a strategy, man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to examine believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the short and long term threats which adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the country faced, girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the emphasis was on cutting costs, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glancehandsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. In the intervening years there have been occasions when it was difficult not Few girls are lucky enough to wonder if be brought up ''without'' the United Kingdom was poorly equipped - expectation that they will marry and without clear-cut aims - as a result of the 2010 reviewhave children. The opportunity to put this right comes in 2015 It was a belief and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks not at what the Review should say, but at how it should would be tackledmany years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>