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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan MetcalfAlastair Humphreys|title=From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the GenerationLocal|rating=3.5|genre=TriviaTravel |summary=I have to go a roundabout way to introducing Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book, so bear with mehe walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. It stems partly from dictionaries and As he says in his introduction, the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generationsyear exploring a small map. The authors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby BoomersNature loss, the Millennialspollution, land use and those beforeaccess, in between and since – have their own cyclical patternagriculture, and the history food system, rewilding…'' One of humanity has been and will be formed by the interplay joys of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. I don't really hold much store by the book for me was that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such biggest thing he learned about all of these thingswas that there are no easy answers, for one? no single 'right or wrong'Somebody must , that every upside is likely to have put out an order'', as someone here says of something else. But in the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – a downside for somebody and those words that there are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decadesome hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny RogersEdel Rodriguez|title=Campaigns that Shook the WorldWorm: The Evolution of Public RelationsA Cuban American Odyssey|rating= 54|genre= Business and Finance Graphic Novels|summary= I dithered about how to begin this reviewWe're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. On one hand I The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought I should probably start by saying that I have of as a work related interest in marketing and communications. On 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 reading 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 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 drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that was not experienced by their parents and grandparentsdoing. In ''I'm doing the best I can'Generation Z', thensaid the hummingbird. And that, Combi offers some glimpses into really, is the only way that we will solve the worlds problem of climate change – by each of young people todayus doing what we can, in what she wishes to however small that might be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1638485216|title=Azzi Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in BetweenLife and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Our story begins in a country at war''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. Unfortunately you could probably put a name It has everything to it (although it isndo with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't named) as it happens all too regularlymatter''. Our heroine is Azzi The murder of George Floyd, a young girl whose life was not ''too'' affected forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by the warDerek Chauvin, but every day it came a little closerforty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. Her father still worked as We rarely see pictures of a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape murder taking place but Floyd's death was by boat and they became refugeesan exception. The three image of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted Chauvin kneeling on a temporary basis into another country (again itGeorge's neck is not named) one which I'll ever forget and they had the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a home, although it was backlash against the police - and not just one roomin Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxMatthieu Aikins|title=WhereThe Naked Don's t Fear the Elephant?Water|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''WhereIt's Wally'', haveneasy to forget at times that The Naked Don't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's Fear the Elephant?Water isn'' has jumped in with great enthusiasmt actually fiction, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with because it reads very much like a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest well- full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in therepaced thriller at times. Elephant This is probably the easiest to spotnot by any means a criticism, but Snake rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and Parrot at times painful journey. There are in there too tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the page you'll scan reader to perfectly envisage the trees again environments and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like thispeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Treglown1785633074|title=Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5|genre=HistoryHumour|summary=With Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'Franco’s Crypt'(that' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – s for those of you who are Eton and placed it under what to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscopeOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. His aim appears to be twofold: We are in the privileged position of having access to consider the nature memoirs of collective memoryRafe Hubris, particularly in the light man who was behind the skilful control of the exhumations Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of mass graves that commenced earlier this century, and, secondly, 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to examine – and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1846276772|title=Midnight in SiberiaThe End of Bias: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|summary=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book Anyone who is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the frame. Itextent to which they suffer from it: it's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the largest country by far in the worlddisabled. 9Jobs,288 kilometres from Moscow to promotions, higher salaries are the eastern stretches preserve of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own rightwhite man. So Even when this book mentions it as those who wouldn't pass the spine or backbone of Russia medical become a couple part of times, thatan organisation it's got to be of a prone Russia – one lying downrare that their views are heard, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians that their concerns are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictmentacknowledged. It's no mistake either personally appalling and degrading for this cover to have people in the frame alongside individuals on the train carriages, for receiving end of the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of bias but it's not just the Railway individuals who are definitely the ribs of the piecenegatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes1529148251|title=HRCMisfits: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=45|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came ''How am I able to our attention be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it .'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not been for the way in which she managed going to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill read a book of essays or a self- well, HRC wasnhelp book. You't 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 ''involvedreading'' the book but Iyou need to ''listen''m sure to the words as though you know what I'm talking aboutre in the lecture theatre. Then she reThe disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-emerged through the fog of the George W Bush presidency with her bid skinned Black woman is to gain the Democratic nominationbe seen as less desirable, less hireable, losing 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 hotly contested series book by a writer of primaries colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to Barack Obama the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard- working, principled and went on to become his Secretary determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of Stateanything: it was simply carefully harvested. Now When Otegha was ten the question is whether or not she will make another run for President family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in 2016London and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)Richard Brook|title=The Kindness of StrangersUnderstanding Human Nature: Penniless Across AmericaA User's Guide to Life

|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was I am a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. There were specific fearsIn my case, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened this is one of life - and then there was a memorythe latter. He remembered - with Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some shame - of it interesting, but it would not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can have 'hit home' in the desertway that it does now. It I believe it came to me not just because I was almost on likely to give it a whim favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that he decided to cross Americapeople chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, from San Francisco in California so there is a predisposition towards expecting to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventurethe book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but McIntyre decides to do also because it without money - is a book I needed to be completely reliant on the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fearsread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1787332098|title=Massacre in Norway: 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 How to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island Love Animals 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>}}{{newreviewHuman-Shaped World|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeHenry Mance

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is ''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 subject of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textnext David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. HoweverI mean, as John Campbell demonstrates cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in this volume, the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it is difficult . Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to do justice animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the lifecompany of humans and the company of animals, times I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected thatmaking the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1523092734|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of ''She brings a lengthy timeline hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in historyher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, would former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a spigurnel? What time when violence against women is much in the most revered legal document in historynews, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time ''A Women's Guide to talk about widowsClaiming Space'' rights, fish traps, and by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be both sexist and clear - this book is not a 'how to discuss the importance to peopledisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's estates something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems 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>}}{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genreshow women can be ''protected''. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionI've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. HoweverIf all women did this, it is a golden rule those few men who are violent to women would realise that a book must know who and what it is. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that it suffers from a serious identity crisisthey are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartPolly Barton|title=That's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allFifty Sounds

|summary=Adrian Hart Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a long history of campaigning against racismwhile and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not least because he was subjected hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to racial abuse when he was at school. With jet-black hair and a complexion that was just the question ''slightlywhy Japan?'' darker than was normal he was She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the closest that his school had to someone who might be of Pakistani origin. It was only name calling from a group of boys but first essay, which is on the experience stuck and hesound ''giro' ''s put much – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of his working life ''every party where his mouth is. So, you might expect that he would be a devotee of the zero tolerance approach have to racist speech, but heintroduce yourself''s far from certain that this is the right way to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaStephen Fabes|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceTravel|summary=We're screwedI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doingUnfortunately, there is a reason why we shouldnI didn't be doing inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and people to back basic practicality that would have meant that reason up I would have survived if I had been gifted with scientific datathe requisite 'bottle'. Take any aspect In order words I'm not the sort of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke person who will get on a bike outside a serious illness or worseLondon hospital and not come home for six years. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets Fabes did precisely 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=How To Be A ConservativeSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Roger ScrutonLouisa Pateman|rating=34.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|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 to defend You can't be happy and champion the value of the home, a society based fulfilled on free association and the nation stateyour own. The simplest of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up You are not from ‘privileged’ stock but within complete until you find a Labour-voting, lower middle class family, to demonstrate that his conservatism was not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journeyman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Wall Between Us|author=Matthew Small|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In this personal account of his visit This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to Israel and believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the West Bank, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along the way and attempts adults in her life advising her as to make sense of the conflict that has dominated this area what they thought would be best for many yearsher. Small openly admits It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the issue there girl (she's usually fairly young) is not a simple one and his visit reinforces rescued by the fact handsome prince who then marries her so that there they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many complexities preventing peace from happeningyears before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>