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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny RogersAriel Saramandi|title=Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution Portrait of Public Relationsan Island on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Business Politics and Finance Society|summary= I dithered about how In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by saying that I have a work related interest in marketing colonialism and communicationsslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. On Saramandi describes the other handcountry at one stage as ''rotting'', Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about psychology by the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and storytelling – which governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In shortdiagnostic, I was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – and it didn’t disappointcharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>1804271616

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill LeovyGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=GhettosideThe City and the World|rating=3.54

|summary=There In ''The City and the World'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are enough LA rappers around to attest that living as a black man in South Central is no easy task. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your peril, much imagined spaces as crude they may be, but ''Ghettoside'' will soon inform are physical ones. With a deep affection for the disbeliever urban landscapes that have shaped his life , Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on the streets Lower Rhine with a blend of LA is hardpersonal memory and thoughtful observation. With a 40 His writing, at times higher chance of being murdered than a white person in Americaabstract, what made the LA of captures not just architectural features but the 80s through emotional and mental geographies tied to the late 2000s such each location, for example, his perspectives as a dangerous place child as opposed to live for young black men?as an adult. From Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, Hens traces a map of experiences, turning cities into reflections of identity and belonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>1804271691

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ben CoatesPaul B Preciado|title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands Dysphoria Mundi|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelPolitics and Society|summary= I know Holland in ''It is never too late to embrace the way everyone does. Pancakes revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and windmills autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and Potbrings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, oh mya new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. But Rather, itis the proportional, valid response to 's one 'the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the few European countries ICovid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''ve never lived in . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for any period of timepolitical paralysis, and so I was intrigued Preciado urges his readers to know more''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>1804271454

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottJacqueline Feldman|title= I Used to Know That: HistoryPrecarious Lease|rating= 43.5|genre= Politics and SocietyBiography|summary= I've picked up The title of this novel refers to a few things over the years, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad French legal term (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happenbail précaire'')associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. But I have gapsAmong mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of this I am suremassive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and I thought to get detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a basic understanding haven for artists and marginal members ofsociety (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, well''I live on the margins of the margins of the margins''), Le Bloc was subject to the basics that we all should knowcontinual threat of eviction and the pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a quick read of tragedy in this book wouldn't hurt.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>1804271403

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottClaire Dederer|title= I Should Know That - Monsters: What Do We Do with Great BritainArt by Bad People?|rating= 4.53|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I am Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a dreadful Brit. I'm better at the geography 'biography of Colombia than the UK (true storyaudience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, I had to google where Essex was exploration of the other day). Despite 17 years old aphorism of full time education separating the art from the artist in the UK, I probably wouldncontext of contemporary ''cancel culture''t pass a simple citizenship test. Which Dederer's work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, the prologue packs a little embarrassingpunch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, reallyand yet despises for his actions. So when this book came up for review I thought IThis model of ''monstrous men''d have itas she calls them, both is consistent for interest the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a subtle way to brush up on my Britainpersonal, rather than collective voice. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>1399715070

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony WilkinsonVirginie Despentes|title=Capitalism and Human ValuesKing Kong Theory

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=Tony Wilkinson has ''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a first class honours degree call to arms for women in philosophy and has worked a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in government service and investment management - French, the ideal background for book is a consideration collection of capitalism and the human values essays in which propel it. It's not too long ago - certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated the values held by individuals, but true religious belief now seems to be the exception rather than the rule. In its place we have Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a society for whom consumerism is woman through the driving force - and a widening gap between those who can afford complex prism of her varied life: from rape to consume sex work and those who cannotpornography. As Wilkinson says ''Getting and spending have come to define who we Though these discussions areintertwined, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>191309734X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Gittos1009473085|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched EvansThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=3.5

|summary=It is said Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that we live in a rape cultureapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Tabloid headlines scream that If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the number of rapes is inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the increase and book for you. If that the police '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 compelling read and the courts are failing should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to deal with the problempolitics. There's a belief that the rate of conviction 'The Conservative Effect'' is consistently lowan entirely different beast. It's also said that sexism and misogyny have created the seventh book in a society in series which rape is looks at the impact a regular occurrence, frequently not reported to government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the police and that society at large doesn't really caremost important. Luke Gittos, This book follows the well-established format: a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings series of experts from various fields review the state of the statistics and that far from ''improving'' nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the way changes that rape occurred and sexual assaults are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victimssituation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienAlastair Humphreys|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportLocal|rating=4.5|genre=SportTravel |summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend Alastair Humphreys has walked and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? cycled all over the world. And then written about it. What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties For this book he walked and follows the case as it goes cycled very close to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved home and digressing into related areasthen wrote about it. In deference to As he says in his introduction, the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity shebook is an attempt 's chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speakshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. You could Google the facts Nature loss, pollution, land use and come up with access, agriculture, the correct namefood system, but this isnrewilding…''t a One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of gossip about particular people. Itthese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong's an investigation of , that every upside is likely to have a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commoditiesdownside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian McMillanEdel Rodriguez|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatWorm: In search of the meaning of YorkshireA Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Ian McMillanWe're in childhood, poetand we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, radio presenterand Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshiremannot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, is worriedthose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. It has crossed his mind that Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he might not would probably be ''Yorkshire enough''shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, given that his such as Angola) and the father was being watched and watched, and not from God's Own Countyliked for his successful photography business, but was a Scot by birthsuccess being frowned upon. In a series The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of discursions on the subject heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of Yorkshire he attempts to distil the essence heat forcing you out of the county kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to understand what being connection in a Yorkshireman meansfractured world|rating=3. 5|genre= Lifestyle|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 get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! To Precisely this end we accompany him through towns .'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and cities, precious life the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattressway I want to. Amongst othersSarah Wilson is equally lucky. All of Yorkshire 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 best life that we could be living. Her answer is herean unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Including Yorkshire puddingsDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1785633457|title= Buy Me The SkyCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and whilst I havenhis wife, Joan, shouldn'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>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1529153050|title=Food Bank Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for food, less than a mile Seeking some light relief from the riches of the City of London. Intrigued as current political turmoil which is coming to what seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was going on he went to ask. The man explained to him that henudged towards ''Britain'd just got a job after two years s Best Political Cartoons of being unemployed, but it would be five weeks before he was paid2022''. He couldnSharp eyes will have noted that we't claim benefits as he was in work and had no savings, so re not yet through the bins had to be his source of food and by year: the following week he would have to walk cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to work as he couldn't afford the fares31 August 2022. That was Who can imagine what there will be to come in the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe CombiB0B7289HKQ|title=Generation ZConversations Across America: Their VoicesA Father and Son, Their Lives Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Generation ZKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, for anyone by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like me who didn’t know, is a good time to do it. The decision was made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. It is one of to ride the central contentions Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of Chloe Combi’s book 'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s it - in British history2015. From They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the radical technological innovation recommended time - but there were factors which produced the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, life pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for these children most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and teenagers is characterised by so much that he was not experienced by their parents and grandparents. In 'Generation Z', then, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today, in what she wishes to be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adultssuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1739593901|title=Azzi in Between22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=''Our story begins in a country at warfuture will be more complex than we expected. Unfortunately you could probably put a name Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularlytrack grandma. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too' I' affected by the war, but every day it came ve got a little closercouple of confessions to make. Her father still worked I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a doctor few stories and her mother made beautiful clothesthen forget to return to the book. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsThere's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugeestechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again itIt's not named) human beings who fascinate me: the technology and they had the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a homebook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, although I loved it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Where's the Elephant?The Book of Hope

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society |summary=We've The done thing is to read a book all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, haven't we? They appeal because I don’t want to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's lose any of the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasmexperience of reading this amazing book, keen I want to show just how observant they arecapture it as it hits me. We start off with a forest - actually And it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in thereis hitting me. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are This beautiful book has me in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like thistears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Jeremy TreglownAlexander Adams|titlerating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary=Franco's CryptCan art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, 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 so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: Spanish Culture left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and Memory Since 1936progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=With ''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken It had been on the cards for a highly charged subject – life 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 Spain under Franco – a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and placed it under what a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to some might appear run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a somewhat revisionist microscopecar - and fuel. His aim appears Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to be twofoldlive off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529149800|title=Things You Can Do: How to consider Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the nature forest fire took hold and most of collective memorythem stood and watched, particularly in unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the light river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the exhumations only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of mass graves us doing what we can, however small that commenced earlier this centurymight be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, andGray 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.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, secondlyon 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, to examine – a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the 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 image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and celebrate the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorand not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

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

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

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

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

|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedThe able will come before the disabled. There were specific fearsJobs, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of life - and then there was a memorythe white man. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a hitchhiker with a gas can in the desertpart of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It was almost 's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventure, the receiving end of the bias but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on 's not just the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fearsindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1529148251|title=Massacre in NorwayMisfits: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at the camp – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Personal Manifesto|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeMichaela Coel

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It must 's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be rare indeed that in a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is the subject certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textself-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. However, You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as John Campbell demonstrates though you're in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and career you'll be carried on a cloud of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

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

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to ''To be a spigurnel? What dark-skinned Black woman is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time to talk about widows' rightsbe seen as less desirable, fish trapsless hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to peopleTalk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''s estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience 0.7% of Britain English Literature GCSE students in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years England study a book by a writer 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=colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Royal EnigmaBookseller'' 29 June 2021|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with books that cross genresher father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best historical novels are as much history as fictioneducation possible. However, it is There was always a golden rule that painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a book must know who and what shortage of anything: it iswas simply carefully harvested. One of When Otegha was ten the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a serious identity crisisplace at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartRichard Brook|title=ThatUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allGuide to Life

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Adrian Hart has I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long history ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of campaigning against racismit interesting, but it would not least have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because he I was subjected likely to racial abuse when he was at school. With jet-black hair and give it a complexion that was just favourable review [ ''slightlyfull disclosure The Bookbag'' darker than was normal he was the closest that his school had to someone who might be of Pakistani origins u. It was only name calling from a group of boys but the experience stuck and he's put much of his working life where his mouth .p. is. Sothat people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, you might expect that he would be so there is a devotee of predisposition towards expecting to like the zero tolerance approach to racist speechbook, but heeven if it doesn's far from certain t always turn out that this way'' ] – but also because it is the a book I needed to read, right way to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfnow.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca1787332098|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people How to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke Love Animals in a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=How To Be A ConservativeHuman-Shaped World|author=Roger ScrutonHenry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one '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 few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatismnext David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat. His central theme ..) and I much prefer my elephants in this book is the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to defend animals - and champion I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the value company of humans and the homecompany of animals, a society based on free association and I would probably choose the nation stateanimals. The simplest of biographical sections demonstrates I insisted that the author I read this book: no one was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock trying to stop me but within a Labour-votingI was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, lower middle class familyeggs, chicken and fish and I needed to demonstrate either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that his conservatism was making the decision would not inherited but a product of his own intellectual journeybe comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=The Wall Between UsA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Matthew SmallEliza Van Cort|rating=45

|summary=In this personal account of his visit to Israel ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and the West Bankagain.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Small journals his time spent with people he meets along Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the way life of choosing unapologetically and attempts bravely. It is to make sense of live the conflict that has dominated this area for many yearslife you've always wanted. Small openly admits '' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the issue there news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple one and his visit reinforces jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the fact moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that there we are many complexities preventing peace from happeningnot just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan ShawPolly Barton|title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need Fifty Sounds

|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has stayed in the mind been on my radar for a while and if the wrong reasons: rather than looking to develop a strategyworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to examine the short and long term threats question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the country facedsound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the emphasis sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on cutting costs, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at maps and first glance-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. In Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the intervening years there have been occasions when guts to simply go out and do it was difficult not . I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to wonder strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the United Kingdom was poorly equipped - and without clear-cut aims - as a result of the 2010 reviewrequisite 'bottle'. The opportunity to put this right comes in 2015 In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks not at what the Review should say, but at how it should be tackledcome home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>1788161211