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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottAriel Saramandi|title= I Used to Know That: HistoryPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I've picked up a few things over the yearsIn this powerful collection of essays, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes Saramandi seeks to have a classroom intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mexicans wondering why we so love Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to celebrate a terrorist attack that didnexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting''t happen). But I have gaps, a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of this I am sureracism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and I thought to get governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a basic understanding kind ofdiagnostic, well, charting the various diseases afflicting the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurtisland state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>1804271616

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma Marriott|title= I Should Know That - Great Britain|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics Gregor Hens and Society|summary= I am a dreadful Brit. I'm better at the geography of Colombia than the UK Jen Calleja (true story, I had to google where Essex was the other daytranslator). Despite 17 years of full time education 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>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Wilkinson|title=Capitalism The City and Human Valuesthe World

|summary=Tony Wilkinson has In ''The City and the World'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. With a first class honours degree in philosophy deep affection for the urban landscapes that have shaped his life, Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and has worked in government service and investment management - Goch on the ideal background for Lower Rhine with a consideration blend of capitalism personal memory and the human values which propel itthoughtful observation. It's His writing, at times abstract, captures not too long ago - certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated just architectural features but the values held by individualsemotional and mental geographies tied to each location, for example, but true religious belief now seems his perspectives as a child as opposed to be the exception rather than the ruleas an adult. In its place we have a society for whom consumerism is the driving force - From Belgium and a widening gap between those who can afford Germany to consume Berkeley and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says ''Getting Columbus, Hens traces a map of experiences, turning cities into reflections of identity and spending have come to define who we arebelonging.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>1804271691

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke GittosPaul B Preciado|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched EvansDysphoria Mundi|rating=34.5

|summary=''It is said that we live in a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that never too late to embrace the number revolutionary optimism of rapes is on the increase childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and that the police autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and the courts are failing brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to deal with the problem. There's new generation, a belief that the rate of conviction is consistently low. It's also said that sexism and misogyny have created a society new feeling mechanism in which rape detachment is not considered a regular occurrencesign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, frequently not reported valid response to ''the police epistemological and that society at large doesn't really care. Luke Gittos, a solicitor practicing criminal lawpolitical crack we are living through, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of the statistics tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that far from characterize our present''which Preciado calls 'improving'dysphoria mundi' '. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the way Covid-19 pandemic as that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with itwhich has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''s actually working against the interests . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of victimsweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>1804271454

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienJacqueline Feldman|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportPrecarious Lease|rating=43.5|genre=SportBiography|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy The title of this novel refers to a weekend French legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and a couple processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of drinksother squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an Australian Rules footballeralmost mythical status for its inhabitants, just into his twenties admirers and follows the case detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a haven for artists and marginal members of society (as it goes to courtone character, Le Général, repeats throughout, interviewing some 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 'I live on the man who was charged margins of the name margins of the margins'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field), so Le Bloc was subject to speak. You could Google the facts continual threat of eviction and come up with the correct namepressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, but framed as a tragedy in this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>1804271403

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McMillanClaire Dederer|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatMonsters: In search of the meaning of YorkshireWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=43

|summary=Ian McMillanDederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, poetthoroughly nitpicked, radio presenter, poet exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be the context of contemporary ''Yorkshire enoughcancel culture'', given that his father was not from God. Dederer's Own County, but was a Scot by birthwork is original and expressive. In a series of discursions on The reader gets the subject of Yorkshire he attempts to distil impression that the essence of thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the county and to understand what being a Yorkshireman meanspage. To this end we accompany him through towns and citiesIn particular, the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff exalts the barberdirector Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattressyet despises for his actions. Amongst others. All This model of Yorkshire life ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is hereconsistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Including Yorkshire puddingsHer critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>1399715070

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= XinranVirginie Despentes|title= Buy Me The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years ago, and whilst I haven't read all of her books, every one that I have read has at some point had me in tears. This one was no different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ray Barron Woolford|title=Food Bank BritainKing Kong Theory

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''King Kong Theory'' is a smartlyhard-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for foodhitting memoir and feminist manifesto, less than which can be seen as a mile from the riches of the City of London. Intrigued as call to what was going on he went to ask. The man explained to him that he'd just got arms for women in a job after two years of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paidphallocentric society broken at its core. He couldn't claim benefits as he was Originally written in work and had no savingsFrench, so the bins had to be his source book is a collection of food and by essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the following week he would have to walk complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work as he couldn't afford the faresand pornography. That was Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank]book can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>191309734X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1009473085|title=Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=Generation Z, for anyone like me who didn’t know, is made up of those young people born between 1995 Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and 2001. It is one of the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book that applies to ''Generation ZThe Conservative Effect: Their voices, Their Lives2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British history. From the radical technological innovation If you're looking for an easy read which produced will deliver the internet and smart phones to multiculturalisminside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, life then this isn't the book for these children and teenagers is characterised by so much you. If that was not experienced by their parents and grandparents. In 'Generation Zs what you're looking for, thenI don't think Anthony Seldon's book, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, in what she wishes to can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a conversation starter between teenagers compelling read and adultsshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah GarlandAlastair Humphreys|title=Azzi in BetweenLocal

|genre=For SharingTravel |summary=Our story begins in a country at warAlastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. Unfortunately you could probably put a name For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularly. Our heroine As he says in his introduction, the book is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not an attempt ''too'' affected by the war, but every day it came to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a little closersmall map. Her father still worked as a doctor Nature loss, pollution, land use and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then access, agriculture, the day came when they had to runfood system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for their lives, and escape me was by boat and they became refugees. The three that the biggest thing he learned about all of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) somebody and they had a home, although it was just one roomthat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxEdel Rodriguez|title=Where's the Elephant?Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=For SharingGraphic Novels|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''re in childhood, havenand we't we? re in Cuba. They appeal to children The revolution has happened, and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the Elephant?'' country, has jumped in with great enthusiasmproven himself a Communist, keen and not done nearly enough to show just how observant they arecreate a level playing field for all. We start off with a forest Well, those hours- actually itlong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the Amazon Rainforest country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro- full of glorious colours Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and our three friendsnot liked for his successful photography business, who are hiding in theresuccess being frowned upon. Elephant is probably The mother gets the couple jobs with the easiest party to spotease some of the heat, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn this sultry island country, it remains the page kind of heat forcing you'll scan out of the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy TreglownSarah Wilson|title=Franco's CryptThis One Wild and Precious Life: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936the path back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=With My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Franco’s CryptWhat is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what I get to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscopelove that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. His aim appears '' I'm lucky enough to be twofold: living my one wild and precious life the way I want to consider . 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 nature of collective memory, particularly in source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the light of life we want – the exhumations of mass graves best life that commenced earlier this centurywe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, andwe are not''. Don't care what you're doing, secondlyshe thinks you (we, to examine – and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorI) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1785633457|title=Midnight in SiberiaCharging Around: A Train Journey into Exploring the Heart Edges of RussiaEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It's no mistake that the cover Clive Wilkinson has a history of my edition of this book is travelling by unconventional means with a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the framepreference for slow travel. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across As he neared his eightieth birthday the map idea of exploring the largest country by far edges of England in the worldan electric car was not totally outrageous. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of RussiaIn fact, it could only should be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport pleasant holiday for Clive and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of timeshis wife, that's got to be of 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 verdictJoan, as well as a slight indictment. Itshouldn'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes1529153050|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for Seeking some light relief from the way in current political turmoil which she managed is coming to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill - wellseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, HRC wasnI was nudged towards 't 'Britain'involved's Best Political Cartoons of 2022' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Then she Sharp eyes will have noted that we're-emerged not yet through the fog of year: the George W Bush presidency with her bid cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in a hotly contested series of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary of State31 August 2022. Now the question is whether or not she Who can imagine what there will make another run for President be to come in 2016.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)B0B7289HKQ|title=The Kindness Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of Strangers: Penniless Across America|author=Kari Loya|rating=4.5

|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist Kari (that rhymes with a secret: he was frightened. There were specific fears‘sorry’, but what it boiled down by the way) wanted to was that he was frightened of life - and then there was a memory. He remembered - with spend some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a gas can in the desertgood time to do it. It The decision was almost on a whim that he decided made to cross ride the Trans AmericaBike Trail from Yorktown, from San Francisco in California Virginia to Cape Fear Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventure, but McIntyre decides 2015. They had 73 days to do it without money - to slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be completely reliant for most people who considered taking it on the kindness of strangers. He Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was confronting his own fearssuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1739593901|title=Massacre in Norway: 22 Ideas About The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Utoya Youth CampStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=2.5|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district '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 hit out at what he thought was track grandma.''Cultural Marxism I', which killed 8, then left for an island in ve got a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itselfcouple of confessions to make. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the camp – and wounded many scores morebook. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, There's got to be a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his countryvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. His case was one of Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was technology which takes centre stage along with the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 yearsworld-building. This is, as youIt'd expects human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, one what did I think of a book of the many books to result from the casetwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John CampbellJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeThe Book of Hope

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society |summary=It must be rare indeed that The done thing is to read a British political figure who never became Prime Minister book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the subject Era of or deserves Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a biography comprising 750 pages of textvacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. HoweverTherefore, all art must be political, as John Campbell demonstrates even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in this volume, the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is difficult art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to do justice become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to the life, times create a more globalist and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1398508632|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy It had 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 a lengthy timeline November, particularly in history, would Central Scotland was perhaps not the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks best time to start, in a spigurnel? What is world where the most revered legal document in historynormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, which sets out Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the rights area around her was a known habitat with a variety of man – but also has time terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to talk about widows' rights, fish trapsrun a fridge, freezer and to be both sexist dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to discuss the importance to people's estates 'live'' wild just 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 live off its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>produce.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krishna Bhatt1529149800|title=The Royal EnigmaThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=24|genre=Historical FictionHome and Family|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong We begin with books a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that cross genresdoing. The ''I'm doing the best historical novels are as much history as fictionI can'', said the hummingbird. HoweverAnd that, really, it is a golden rule the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that a book must know who might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and what it Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Corruption isnot department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the problems with US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The Royal Enigma image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is that it suffers from not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a serious identity crisisbacklash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartMatthieu Aikins|title=ThatThe Naked Don's Racist: How t Fear the regulation of speech and thought divides us allWater

|summary=Adrian Hart has It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a long history of campaigning against racismcriticism, not least because he was subjected but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to racial abuse when he was accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at schooltimes painful journey. With jet-black hair There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a complexion haunting and almost lyrical quality that was just allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'slightly'(that' darker than was normal he was s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the closest reality is that his school had to someone the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who might be of Pakistani originare the driving force behind the government. It We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was only name calling from a group behind the skilful control of boys but the experience stuck and he's put much Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of his working life where his mouth is2020. So, you You might expect that he would be a devotee of not know the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, name now but he's far from certain that this is will certainly be the right way man to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfJessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=WeAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it're screweds simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. Wherever we lookThe able will come before the disabled. Jobs, whatever we think promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of doing, there is a reason why we shouldnthe white man. Even when those who wouldn't be doing pass the medical become a part of an organisation it, and people to back 's rare that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eattheir views are heard, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worsetheir concerns are acknowledged. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists It's personally appalling and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at degrading for the individuals on the blink receiving end of an eyethe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=How To Be Misfits: A ConservativePersonal Manifesto|author=Roger ScrutonMichaela Coel|rating=3.5

|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one of the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatism'. His central theme in this book is How am I able to defend be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and champion the value of the homepoverty, a society based on free association and yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the nation statetruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. The simplest '' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up mind. You're not from ‘privileged’ stock but within going to read a book of essays or a Labourself-voting, lower middle class family, help book. You're going to demonstrate that his conservatism read writing which was not inherited inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a product cloud of his own intellectual journeyexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>

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

|summary=In this personal account ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of his visit colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to Israel the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and the West Banknine. It was her mother who came first, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the way and attempts to make sense best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of the conflict that has dominated money although this area for many yearsdid not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. Small openly admits When Otegha was ten the issue there is not family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a simple one private school in London and his visit reinforces the fact that there are many complexities preventing peace from happeningthen a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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