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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roger ScrutonAlastair Humphreys|title= Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New LeftLocal|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=''Thinkers of Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the New Left'' first came out in 1985, under Thatcher's governmentworld. British left-wing intellectuals gave And then written about it savage reviews. The publisher was threatened with a boycott For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and the book was withdrawn from bookshopsthen wrote about it. Roger Scruton feels this caused As he says in his university career to decline. In the introduction, he says he the book is an attempt ''reluctant to return to the scene of such share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a disastersmall map.'' However Nature loss, this is a subject he is clearly passionate aboutpollution, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe land use and seen access, agriculture, the destructive reality behind the fashionable food system, rewilding…''leftist ways One of the joys of thinking.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 every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiEdel Rodriguez|title= I Am MalalaWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating= 54|genre= AutobiographyGraphic Novels|summary= We're in childhood, and we'She's re in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention saviour of Malala. I can't disagree on some levelthe country, has proven himself a Communist, but what this book proves is that on another she is just and not done nearly enough to create a girllevel playing field for all. One voice among manyWell, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. ItOur narrator's just that she decided family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by be the good soldier the Taliban there were people nearbycountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, doctors who got her to a hospitalsuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and then luckier still because when her condition worsenednot liked for his successful photography business, nearby there were western doctors success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with access to western facilities and she was flown the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the UK for treatment.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan MetcalfSarah Wilson|title=From Skedaddle to SelfieThis One Wild and Precious Life: Words of the Generationpath back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=TriviaLifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I have get to go a roundabout way to introducing love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this book, so bear with me. '' It stems partly from dictionaries I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the etymology of way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the language source) she pushes us to think about whether we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generations. The authors of those posited really ''are'' living the idea that all those archetypical generations life we want – the Baby Boomersbest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, the Millennialswe are not''. Don't care what you're doing, and those beforeshe thinks you (we, in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of humanity has been and will be formed travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the interplay edges of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) England in regular orderan electric car was not totally outrageous. I don't really hold much store by thatIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and I certainly didnhis wife, Joan, shouldn't know weit?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain'd started one since s Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the Millennials – who the heck decides such thingscurrent political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, for one? I was nudged towards ''Britain'Somebody must have put out an orders Best Political Cartoons of 2022'', as someone here says of something else. But in Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what was important, predominant and of course spoken there will be to come in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny RogersB0B7289HKQ|title=Campaigns Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Shook Capture the World: The Evolution Soul of Public RelationsAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating= 54|genre= Business and Finance Travel|summary= I dithered about how Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I have spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a work related interest in marketing and communicationsgood time to do it. On The decision was made to ride the other handTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed Virginia to me on several levelsAstoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept deliverya challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. In short, I Merv Loya was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – 75 years old and it didn’t disappointhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Leovy1739593901|title=Ghettoside22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=There are enough LA rappers around ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to attest that living make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a black man in South Central is no easy taskfew stories and then forget to return to the book. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your peril, as crude they may There's got to be, but a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it'Ghettoside's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It' will soon inform s human beings who fascinate me: the disbeliever that life on technology and the streets of LA is hardworld scape are purely incidental. With a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person in AmericaSo, what made the LA did I think of the 80s through to the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black menbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk> Well, I loved it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ben CoatesJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart The Book of the Netherlands Hope |rating= 45|genre= TravelPolitics and Society |summary= I know Holland in The done thing is to read a book all the way everyone doesthrough before you sit down to review it. Pancakes and windmills and PotI’m making an exception here, oh my. But it's one because I don’t want to lose any of the few European countries I've never lived in for any period experience of timereading this amazing book, and so I was intrigued want to know morecapture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1788360737|title= I Used to Know ThatArtivism: HistoryThe Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= I've picked up Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a few things over vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the yearssocial environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of Mexicans wondering why we so love -called artivism has caused artists to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happenbecome more overtly political (read: left wing). But I Their seemingly grass roots movements have gaps, of this I am sure, been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and I thought media elites hoping to get create a basic understanding of, well, the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurtmore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1398508632|title= I Should Know That - Great BritainThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= I am It had been on the cards for a dreadful Britwhile but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. I'm better at the geography The end of Colombia than the UK (true storyNovember, I had to google where Essex particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the other day). Despite 17 years of full best time education to start, in a world where the UKnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, I probably wouldn't pass Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a simple citizenship testvariety of terrains. Which is She had electricity which allowed her to run a little embarrassingfridge, reallyfreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. So when Most importantly, she had shelter: this book came up for review I thought Iwas not a plan to ''live''d have it, both for interest and as a subtle way wild just to brush up on my Britainlive off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Wilkinson1529149800|title=Capitalism Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Human ValuesSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Tony Wilkinson has We begin with a first class honours degree in philosophy telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and has worked in government service most of them stood and investment management - watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the ideal background for a consideration river and began taking tiny amounts of capitalism water and flying back to drop them into the human values which propel itfire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. It's not too long ago - certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated 'I'm doing the values held by individualsbest I can'', but true religious belief now seems to be said the exception rather than the rulehummingbird. In its place And that, really, is the only way that we have a society for whom consumerism is will solve the driving force - and a widening gap between those who problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can afford to consume and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says ''Getting and spending have come to define who we are, however small that might be.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Gittos1638485216|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous MythBlack, White, and Gray All Over: From Steubenville to Ched EvansA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=It ''Corruption is said that we live in a rape culturenot department, gender or race specific. Tabloid headlines scream that the number It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of rapes is George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on the increase and that the 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police and officer, in the courts are failing to deal with US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the problemworld. ThereWe rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's a belief that the rate of conviction is consistently lowdeath was an exception. ItThe image of Chauvin kneeling on George's also said that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape neck is a regular occurrence, frequently not reported to one which I'll ever forget and the police and that society at large doesn't really careprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. Luke Gittos, There was a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of backlash against the statistics police - and that far from not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''improvingall'' tarred by the way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victimsChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienMatthieu Aikins|title=Night Games: A Journey to The Naked Don't Fear the Dark Side of SportWater

|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet in residence It's easy to forget at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worried. It has crossed his mind times that he might not be ''Yorkshire enoughThe Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, given that his father was because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not from God's Own Countyby any means a criticism, but was rather a Scot by birthtestament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. In a series There are tense moments and gripping accounts of discursions border crossings which had me on edge the subject of Yorkshire he attempts to distil the essence of the county and to understand what being whole way through. But it's written with a Yorkshireman means. To this end we accompany him through towns haunting and cities, almost lyrical quality that allows the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff reader to perfectly envisage the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard environments and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattress. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddingspeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1785633074|title= Buy Me The SkyStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and whilst I havenOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''t read all prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of her booksRafe Hubris, every one that I have read has at some point had me in tearsthe man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. This one was no differentYou might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1846276772|title=Food Bank BritainThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young Anyone who is not an able, white man foraged understands bias in waste bins for food, less than that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a mile from the riches of the City part of Londoneveryday life. Intrigued as to what was going on he went to askWhite men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man explained to him that he. Even when those who wouldn'd just got t pass the medical become a job after two years part of being unemployedan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, but it would be five weeks before he was paidthat their concerns are acknowledged. He couldnIt't claim benefits as he was in work s personally appalling and had no savings, so degrading for the individuals on the bins had to be his source receiving end of food and by the following week he would have to walk to work as he couldnbias but it't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for s not just the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank]individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1529148251|title=Generation ZMisfits: Their Voices, Their Lives A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=45

|summary=Generation Z''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, for anyone like me who didn’t knowmalpractice and poverty, is made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. yet still compartmentalise? It is one of 's as though I were telling the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading '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 Misfits'Generation Z', then, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today, in what she wishes you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read 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 book of essays or a country at warself-help book. Unfortunately you could probably put a name You're going to it (although it isnread writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel't named) as it happens all too regularlys 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not You might be ''tooreading'' affected by the war, book but every day it came a little closer. Her father still worked you need to ''listen'' to the words as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then though you're in the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugeeslecture theatre. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) and they had a home, although it was just one roomcloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux0008350388|title=Where's the Elephant?We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|summary=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book is 'To be a photo where the Transdark-Siberian Railway skinned Black woman is horizontal in the frameto be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' It's well known for going east-west, left 'We Need to right across the map of the largest country Talk About Money'' by far in the worldOtegha Uwagba ''0. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches 7% of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is English Literature GCSE students in our imagination of it as a form of transport and England study a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia by a couple of times, that's got to be writer of colour while only 7% study a prone Russia – one lying down, 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 are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as by a slight indictmentwoman. '' 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 piece.'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Hillary Clinton initially Otegha Uwagba came to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for the way in which UK from Kenya when she managed to hold was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her head high during those unfortunate incidents mother who came first, with Bill her father joining them later. The family was hard- wellworking, HRC wasn't ''involved'' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking aboutprincipled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. Then she re-emerged through the fog There was always a painful awareness of the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in money although this did not translate into a hotly contested series shortage of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary 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 memory. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can in the desertlatter. It was almost on a whim that he decided to cross AmericaNot so very long ago, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolinaif I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, which might sound like a great adventurefound some of it interesting, 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 would not have 'hit home' in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2way that it does now.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik I believe it came to me not just because I was 32 when he both planted likely to give it a van bomb in Oslofavourable review [ 's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxismfull disclosure The Bookbag', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itselfs u.s.p. He gunned down 69 is that people – more chose their own books rather than one in ten of those at the camp – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projectsgetting them randomly, so there is a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of predisposition towards expecting to like the more superlative events in modern Nordic history book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This but also because it isa book I needed to read, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the caseright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Campbell1787332098|title=Roy Jenkins: A WellHow to Love Animals in a Human-Rounded LifeShaped World|author=Henry 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 ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro'slightly'' darker than was normal he was – which she describes as being, among other things, the closest that his school had sound of ''every party where you have to someone who might be introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of Pakistani originfar away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. It Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was only name calling from a group of boys but the experience stuck guts to simply go out and hedo it. I also didn's put much t inherit the kind of his working life where his mouth is. Sosteady nerve, you might expect ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that he I would be a devotee of have survived if I had been gifted with the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, but herequisite 'bottle'. In order words I's far from certain that this is m not the right way to go sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and believes not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=We're screwed'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is You are not complete until you find a reason why we shouldnman''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't be doing unkind: it, and people was simply the adults in her life advising her as to back that reason up with scientific datawhat they thought would be best for her. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – It was reinforced by all have problems those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that could provoke a serious illness or worsethey can live happily ever after. And outside Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists they will marry and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eyehave children. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for It was a belief and it may well turn out to would be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.