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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Stafford-SmithAriel Saramandi|title=Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms Portrait of Americaan Island on Fire|rating=4.5
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|summary=On 16 October 1986In this powerful collection of essays, Derrick and Duane Moo Young were shot and killedSaramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, in Miami. British businessman Kris Maharaj was arrested, and in 1987 he was convicted of their murders tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and sentenced slavery to deathexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. His defence lawyerSaramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', Eric Hendon, took a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the unusual line malignant forces of offering no defence at all - when it came time to present his caseracism, he simply rested. Kris protested his innocence throughoutpatriarchy, environmental degradation and continues to do so to this daygovernmental dysfunction. Despite weighty evidence Each essay in support this collection serves as a kind of thisdiagnostic, he still languishes in prison 26 years latercharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556252</amazonuk>1804271616
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gordon WeissGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=The CageCity and the World
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|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=In ''The history of Ceylon, City and latterly Sri Lanka has at its centre an undeniable contradiction. A nation which espoused and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism was caught in one of the bloodiest conflicts in the recent pastWorld'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. With a conflict peppered with suicide bombingsdeep affection for the urban landscapes that have shaped his life, mass killingsHens reflects on places like Cologne, rapesBerlin, torture and imprisonment, and more than Goch on the Lower Rhine with a hint blend of genocidepersonal memory and thoughtful observation. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the emotional and mental geographies tied to each location, for example, his perspectives as a journalist child as opposed to as an adult. From Belgium and as the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka for two years Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, Hens traces a map of the almost 40 years conflictexperiences, and has produced a detailed account turning cities into reflections of the background identity and eventual denouement of this conflictbelonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009954847X</amazonuk>1804271691
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{{Frontpage
|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex BrummerJacqueline Feldman|title=Britain for SalePrecarious Lease|rating=43.5|genre=Business and FinanceBiography|summary=Buy British, weThe title of this novel refers to a French legal term (''bail précaire''re constantly told) associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and many people do - the Frenchprocesses, the Germansbut few scant property rights. Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, QatarisFeldman takes particular interest in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, Chinese..admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. If you want to buy British you'd be hard pressed to use Something like a British electricity companyhaven for artists and marginal members of society (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I live on the people shifting North Sea oil to you might be foreign, margins of the trains near you may be foreign-operated, and so much margins of whatthe margins''s in ), Le Bloc was subject to the shops you buy from would continual threat of coursed be sourced eviction and the pressures from abroad, and shipped through foreign-owned portsabove which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. Whether or not the country is going to hell We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a handcart, it's moving tragedy in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, and the British citizen gets the worst of the dealthis book.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847940757</amazonuk>1804271403
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude CarriereClaire Dederer|title=This is Not the End of the Book;Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=In many waysDederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the cover old aphorism of my edition separating the art from the artist in the context of this book contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is perfectly appropriateoriginal and expressive. HugeThe reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, bold serif script, with nothing but the typeface; prologue packs a declamatory instance of punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art in the most common of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end yet despises for his actions. This model of the book's name - proving that that itself 'monstrous men'' as she calls them, is not consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the be-all likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and end-allPablo Picasso. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic formHer critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and you might see this cover for ten seconds at mostmaintaining her own subjectivity, but as she holds it is so much part dearly, and parcel of what's withina personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BremmerVirginie Despentes|title=Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero WorldKing Kong Theory
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|summary=''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in French, the book is a collection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1009473085
|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024
|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=WeSometimes it're all used s simpler to terms like explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'G7' which then became the and that applies to 'G8' The Conservative Effect: 2010- the group of countries which met periodically to thrash out global problems 2024 - frequently with America being expected to take the lead where military muscle or finance was concerned14 Wasted Years?''. We even nod knowingly at If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the mention of inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the G20 - formed with the good intention book for you. If that 's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a larger group would compelling read and should be able compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to tackle such issues as climate changepolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. We know where good intentions generally lead but there wasnIt't even sufficient agreement amongst s the nations to all head off seventh book in a series which looks at the same directionimpact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. So This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when a point was reached where America was no longer financially able or politically willing to play global policeman what was left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921041</amazonuk>the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard ParryAlastair Humphreys|title=People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's ShadowsLocal
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=Just Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over a decade ago, 21-year-old Lucie Blackman went the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to Japan in search of adventure, excitement, home and a way to pay off her debtsthen wrote about it. A couple of months later As he says in his introduction, her disappearance set in motion a high profile investigation which would see her face plastered over the news for book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some time in this countrybig issues from a year exploring a small map. As so often happens with Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the mediafood system, though, there rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was a huge amount that the biggest thing he learned about all of interest in her plightthese things was that there are no easy answers, and her familyno single 'right or wrong's desperate search for her, and then, with the mystery looking less and less that every upside is likely to be solved, the papers found something else to report on. Just over half have a year later, downside for somebody and that there was a tragic end to the tale as her dismembered body was discoveredare some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099502550</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stieg LarssonEdel Rodriguez|title=The Expo FilesWorm: Articles by the Crusading JournalistA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=[[:Category:Stieg Larsson We're in childhood, and Reg Keeland (translator)|Stieg Larsson]] would not have known Anders Breivik, but if theywe'd coincided you can be damned sure he knew all there was to know about himre in Cuba. Larsson The revolution has happened, and his journalist colleagues were working to condemn Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the far-right activities throughout Europecountry, has proven himself a Communist, and open the truth about the rightnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-wing Swedish parties to long speeches of his audience, and here is constant proof he knew an awful lot about were kind of taking his awful subjecttime away. In just Our narrator's family weren't in the first two, powerful, short essays happiest of places here he brings terrorism in the UK, Italy and Oklahoma an uncle refusing to his home audience, and discusses Swedish extremism in its light; showing be the liberal laws in Sweden that allowed good soldier the extremists country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to be seen some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as too much on Angola) and the straight father being watched and narrowwatched, too mainstreamand not liked for his successful photography business, and even able to enter parliamentsuccess being frowned upon. The idea mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of 'the heat, but in this sultry island country, it couldn't happen here' gets blown remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the water, and as we've seen that is relevant to us everywhere.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051342</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby Manhire (editor)Sarah Wilson|title=The Arab SpringThis One Wild and Precious Life: Rebellion, revolution, and the path back to connection in a new fractured world order
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=A Tunisian man, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17th December 2010, My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in what appeared at the time 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 to be a desperate gesture showing a complete lack of hope after his humiliation by a municipal official. What followed was living my one of wild and precious life the most remarkable events of recent years, as a wave of revolutions occured in what became known 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 source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the Arab Springbest life that we could be living. As Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you'd expect from a top nwespaperre doing, the Guardian had reportersshe thinks you (we, bloggers and columnists covering it all, and Toby Manhire provides a compilation of the paperI) could be doing more…And she's output hereeffing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852652542</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Everett1785633457|title=LanguageCharging Around: The Cultural ToolExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceTravel|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as Clive Wilkinson has a missionary in far flung corners history of the world– travelling by unconventional means with a fact that isn’t surprising given preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the number idea of references to faith that crop up over exploring the pages. This new book, however, is about two much more appealing (to me) subjects: language and travel. If [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill Bryson]] is a travel writer with an interest edges of England in linguistics, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest in travelelectric car was not totally outrageous. It’s not quite the ‘read In fact, it by should be a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release but is somewhere between a formalised every day read pleasant holiday for Clive and a text book with a big dollop of informality stirred in. The travel stories – jaunts to Brazilhis wife, Mexico and beyond – are greatJoan, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kira Cochrane (editor)1529153050|title=Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of FeminismBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Some revolutions happen faster than others, and Seeking some light relief from the revolution in society's thinking about women current political turmoil which is certainly one of the coming to seem more and more gradual ones. Kira Cochranelike an adrenaline sport, WomenI was nudged towards 's Editor at the 'Britain'Guardians Best Political Cartoons of 2022'' from 2006 – 2010, has collected together the best articles and essays from . Sharp eyes will have noted that paper's women's section since 1971. The result, we''Women of re not yet through the Revolutionyear: Forty Years of Feminism'', is a lively account of the more recent women's liberation movement cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in the UK and of the issues facing women in a modern, late twentieth/early twenty-first century society.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652275</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frankie OwensB0B7289HKQ|title=The Little Book Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of PrisonAmerica|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It’s probably pretty safe to assume Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the sort of prisons shown on TV, way) wanted to spend some time with his father and their portrayals of life insidethe period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, bear as much resemblance Virginia to real jails as the doctors Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in Grey’s Anatomy or House 2015. They had 73 days to do to their NHS counterparts. That’s why Frankie has written it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this book: to provide up as more of a guide to what life inside is really like and how best to survive challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it with your sanity, on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and body, intacthe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904380832</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''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 make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a 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 world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Stone (editor)Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Lotteries in Public LifeThe Book of Hope
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|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Peter Stone's reader The done thing is an examination not so much of examples of lotteries in public life, but of to read a book all the theoretical and conceptual issues which the use of 'sortation' in decision taking raisesway through before you sit down to review it. There are essays I’m making an exception here about the use of the lottery in politics, in allocating scarce resources (such as school places or human organs) and even on the problems of defining the lottery and the methods for assuring fairness. Because lotteries are used in many societies because I don’t want to resolve issues and perhaps because of recent discussion lose any of the use experience of the lottery reading this amazing book, I want to allocate school places, this capture it as it hits me. And it is a hot issue which raises fundamental questions about democracy and choicehitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402081</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donovan Hohn1788360737|title=Moby-DuckArtivism: The True Story Battle for Museums in the Era of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at SeaPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In January 1992 Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a container ship was on its way from China vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the USA when it was caught social environment in a storm and two containers broke loose from the deckwhich he develops’’. They held nearly thirty thousand bath toys - yellow ducksTherefore, green frogsall art must be political, red beavers and blue turtles - which were freed when the containers broke up and have circumnavigated the globe for almost twenty yearseven implicitly. Donovan Hohn was a teacher and when one of Alexander Adams in his students wrote an essay describing what had happened to new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the toys Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it caught Hohn's imaginationis art for art’s sake. The rest is recent trend of so- as they say called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left- history wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a very good bookmore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908526009</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others1398508632|title=The Library BookWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I It had better begin been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by saying that I climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a vested interest in liking this book since I am few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly in support variety of saving our nation's public librariesterrains. But you don't need She had electricity which allowed her to be run a librarian to enjoy this bookfridge, freezer and dehydrator. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers She had a car - and makes fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a pleasant read whether youplan to 're keen 'live'' wild just to save libraries or notlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Oakwater1529149800|title=Bubble Wrapped ChildrenThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=34|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes We begin with a look at telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the state forest fire took hold and most of adoption in them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the UK, river and how aspects began taking tiny amounts of it are being threatened by water and flying back to drop them into the use of social networksfire. The author, with over 20 yearsanimals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I' experience in m doing the adoption worldbest I can'', paints a broad picture of said the issues facing adopters and adopteeshummingbird. Peppering And that, really, is the text are some examples only way that we will solve the problem of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parentsclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted childrenhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1638485216
|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James PalmerMatthieu Aikins|title=The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of Naked Don't Fear the New ChinaWater
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Gene Sharp is an American politologist and a veritable (and venerable) guru of non-violent struggle. The story behind the It''From Dictatorship s easy to Democracyforget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn' t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a fascinating one. The bookcriticism, or but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a booklet really Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as it consists of 160 small pages, was apparently created in response to a request refugee from Burmese dissenters in Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the early 1990whole way through. But it's. Sharp responded to this request by producing written with a generic text, a manual for haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the subversive that lies out reader to perfectly envisage the theory environments and practical advice for those engaged in a struggle to bring down a dictatorshippeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Shaxson1785633074|title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the WorldStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Most people think about the subject Members of tax havens - if they need Parliament like us to think about them at all believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - as something which the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is unlikely ever to concern them and that theythe ''prime're for ' movers are the special advisers - the superSPADS -rich and celebritieswho are the driving force behind the government. What might surprise them is that more than half of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come to you via a tax haven. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens We are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor privileged position of having access to the rich - greatly exceeding memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the aid Covid crisis which flows in was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the opposite directionman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Foxcroft1846276772|title=Calories and CorsetsThe End of Bias: A history of dieting over two thousand yearsHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=We’re Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that post-Christmas period when all they may no longer even recognise the socialising and indulging is over and all you’re left with is a pasty, bloated, over-fed but under-nourished complexion, extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a wardrobe full part of clothes just a little too tight and a new year’s resolution to Get Healthyeveryday life. White men will always come first. So it’s The able will come before the perfect time for a new diet book to hit the shelvesdisabled. The title of this one might make you think it’s going to be full of useful tips Jobs, and the cover does little to dispel this ideapromotions, groaning as it is with higher salaries are the weight preserve of plump jellies, lavish cupcakes and even a decadent lobster or two, but take a moment to note the subtitle, if you will: ''white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a history part of dieting over 2000 yearsan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684250</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529148251
|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
|author=Michaela Coel
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as 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 going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dennis O'Donnell0008350388|title=The Locked WardWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Dennis O’Donnell spent 7 years working in ''To be a Scottish hospital and this dark-skinned Black woman is the account of his time there. It takes a special type of person to work in Mental Health servicesbe seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and though Oultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money''Donnell ultimately leaves the Locked Ward, he clearly is one of those people, made all the more remarkable by the fact that this wasn’t his life long vocation, having previously worked as a school teacher (some might say an equally challenging role). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093606</amazonuk>}}Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LammyRichard Brook|title=Out of the AshesUnderstanding Human Nature: Britain After the RiotsA User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Just about everyone in the country was shocked as pictures of the 2011 riots (which began in Tottenham I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and spread to other major cities in the UK) unfolded on our television screenssometimes books choose us. EveryoneIn my case, that this is, except David Lammy, MP for one of the arealatter. He might not Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have known when skimmed it, found some of it would happen or what would trigger the riotinteresting, but a year before, he said that it would happen. This wasnnot have 'hit home't a lucky guess: Lammy was born in Tottenham and brought up on the Broadwater Farm Estate as one of five children raised by his single-parent mother and he knows whatway 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 happening on u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the groundbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0852652674</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Harding1787332098|title=Mafia StateHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Luke Harding set himself a difficult task when he took up his post as the Guardian’s main man ''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 Moscow. He had already put his name to a front page story which appeared rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the Guardian in April 2007next David Attenborough series. This '' I was an account of an interview with the arch-oligarch and Kremlin criticgoing to argue. I mean, Boris Berezovskycows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat.. Harding was not at .) and I much prefer my elephants in the interview wild but added background to then I realised that I was quibbling for the article from Moscowsake of it. However, Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to be in any way associated with Berezovsky was sufficient animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to incur choose between the wrath company of humans and the Russian Federal Security Servicecompany of animals, I would probably choose the FSB – the successor animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to the KGBstop me but I was initially reluctant. The offending account was entitled I eat cheese, eggs, 'chicken and fish and I am plotting a new Russian revolution - London exile Berezovsky says force necessary needed to bring down President Putin'either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265247X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed Vulliamy1523092734|title=Amexica: War Along the BorderlineA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|summary=More than 38,000 people have been killed ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues is an unacknowledged warher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, on the long border (2former CMO,100 milesCirque du Soleil RSD) between Mexico ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and the United Statesbravely. The war It is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the lucrative drugs trade from Mexico to live the US. In this compelling and disturbing work of reportage Vulliamy travels through the borderlands meeting some of the people affectedlife you've always wanted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546566</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen H SegalPolly Barton|title=Geek WisdomFifty Sounds
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|summary=The history of London is 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 while and storied one, and itif the world hadn's unsurprising that so many people t gone into melt-down I would have written about the capitalvisited by now. Imay get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don've always loved t know the answer to the cityquestion ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, its history and novels and plays set within Londonwhich is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, so was really keen the sound of ''every party where you have to get my hands on this new volume in the Cambridge Companion seriesintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0521722314</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus HusselbyStephen Fabes|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=TriviaTravel|summary=In a world I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of diamond-encrusted skulls, goldfar away places. I was birth-leafed iPhones righted wanderlust and luxury yachts ten a pennycuriosity. Unfortunately, of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) itI didn's a relief t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhilesimply go out and do it. The records for costliest photoI also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, artwork, musical instrument ability to talk to strangers and manuscript basic practicality that would have all meant that I would have survived if I had been broken in gifted with the twenty four months leading up to this bookrequisite 'bottle's release. Our collators have scoured In order words I'm not the press for those sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and other, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid not come home for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the moneysix years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>1788161211
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