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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HarradEdward W Said|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in BritainRepresentations of the Intellectual |rating=4.5

|summary=Before reading Kate HarradEdward Said's thought provoking insight into bisexuality in Britain I have to confess to being as guilty ''Representations of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone else. It Intellectual'' is only when you read this collection less a strict theory of essays what intellectuals are and anecdotes, you realise the prejudice more a passionate argument for what they face on a daily basisshould be. The very nature Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of bisexuality is widely misunderstood by the heterosexual and gay communities alike. As intellectual as a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised, or, in the worst-case scenario, completely ostraciseddetached expert speaking only to other specialists. Far from havingInstead, ''he insists on the best of both worlds''intellectual as a public figure, they are considered to be sitting on the fenceoften awkward, unable to come to terms with their true sexuality. ''Purple Prose'' tackles these myths and ill-informed ideas head onabrasive, and in the process shows a community that does have many issuesunpopular, just not the ones that are being laid at their doorwho speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0996460160</amazonuk>1804272248

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wade GrahamAriel Saramandi|title=Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre= HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Between 1950 In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and 2014 slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the worldcountry at one stage as 's urban population increased from 746 million to 3.9 billion. The urbanising trend is set to continue with 'rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the United Nations predicting that systemic decay brought about by the middle malignant forces of the century 66% of us will be city dwellersracism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried to cope with the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both kind of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The Worlddiagnostic, Wade Graham's excellent field guide to charting the various diseases afflicting the modern worldisland state. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>1804271616

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T J ColesGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=Britain's Secret WarsThe City and the World|rating=54

|summary= BritainIn 's Secret Wars is a chilling 'The City and disturbing book to readthe World'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. With all four corners of a deep affection for the globe hell-bent urban landscapes that have shaped his life, Hens reflects on conflictplaces like Cologne, Berlin, oppression and injusticeGoch on the Lower Rhine with a blend of personal memory and thoughtful observation. His writing, our sanitised media portrays Britainat times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the emotional and mental geographies tied to each location, for example, his perspectives as a nation, responding child as opposed to harrowing global eventsas an adult. What is chilling, in T J Coles book, is that the political establishment, through the military From Belgium and intelligence community appear Germany to be complicit in instigating many Berkeley and Columbus, Hens traces a map of them. What is disturbing is that the majority experiences, turning cities into reflections of information he has used to form his analysis identity and conclusion is freely available and in the public domainbelonging. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570783</amazonuk>1804271691

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela LightburnPaul B Preciado|title=An Annoyance of Neighbours: Life is Never Dull When You Have Neighbours!Dysphoria Mundi

|summary=You can choose your friends. You can't choose your relatives, but you can - usually - put some physical distance between you and them, but you can't choose your neighbours and once you're ''there'' it can be very expensive or even impossible to break the link. Now, I can't give you any advice on this thorny subject as it's more than thirty years since I've been in a position to have anything to complain about, but Angela Lightburn knows all there It is never too late to know. She's spent years collating all embrace the different problems which people have with their neighbours and ways revolutionary optimism of improving the situation which donchildhood''t involve a lengthy prison sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892029</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna|title= Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance |rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=Here we are, world, in the midst of a new Renaissance. What will it be, to flounder or to flourish?

The central aim Through this hybrid text, consisting of this discourse is to highlight our current positionarias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the fact that there new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a choice sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to be made. The authors date 1990 as ''the dawn of a newepistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present, Renaissance'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. As with The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the lastCovid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this time warrants in extreme dysphoria as a whole host sign of risksweakness, but it also offers the opportunity or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to reap the benefits of the changes occurring across the globe''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147293637X</amazonuk>1804271454

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David DobsonJacqueline Feldman|title= Buy Me The SkyPrecarious Lease|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''These single-sprout children are more precious than gold'', says a Chinese woman to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what it's like to grow up as ''gold'' through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from the first generation of China's only children. In the highly informative introduction, she tells the story of a 22 year old male student who, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his car, and then was so fearful of the consequences that he brutally murdered her. He was tried and executed in a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator and others, a victim. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Bower|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power|rating=4

|summary=In May 1997 we went The title of this novel refers to vote gleefullya French legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, sure that there was going to be a change affording them temporary suspension from the tiredeviction charges and processes, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingbut few scant property rights. The Blairs' entry into Downing Street the following day - through crowds Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of well-wishers - was massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a breath haven for artists and marginal members of fresh air and society (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I discovered that live on the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for margins of the event. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what margins of the margins'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high ), Le Bloc was subject to the continual threat of eviction and therethe pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants's lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us tragedy in this waybook. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>1804271403

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Popham Claire Dederer|title=The Lady and the GeneralsMonsters: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=On 13 November 2010Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, Aung San Suu Kyi was released thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from house arrest after spending 15 of the previous 21 years as a prisoner artist in the context of Burmacontemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's military juntawork is original and expressive. Political reforms soon followedThe reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, culminating with Suu (the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she prefers to be known) being elected to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaderscalls them, business menis consistent for the first few chapters, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered interrogating the pantheon likes of modern-day political heroesWoody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Burma was a burgeoning democracyHer critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and Suu was a saint. In realitymaintaining her own subjectivity, as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady she holds it so dearly, and the Generals'a personal, the situation was far more complexrather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>1399715070

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason BurkeVirginie Despentes|title=The New Threat From Islamic MilitancyKing Kong Theory

|summary=Barely Sometimes it's simpler to explain a day passes without Islamic militancy making headlines somewhere in book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the worldbook 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}}, and yet it can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a hard subject compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to grasppolitics. ''The sudden rise of Islamic State and their campaign of shocking violence both Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the Middle East and further afield impact a government has left many confused made and fearful, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political responseco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. In "The New Threat From Islamic Militancy", Jason Burke, This book follows the well-established format: a journalist with two decades series of experience reporting on experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the Islamic worldcoalition took over in 2010, attempts to correct the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism to give a true understanding of changes that occurred and the threat we now facesituation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benedict RogersAlastair Humphreys|title= Burma: A Nation at the CrossroadsLocal|rating= 3.5|genre= HistoryTravel |summary= Benedict Rogers Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a human rights activist year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and journalist with an expert insight into Burmaaccess, agriculture, gathered first-hand on journeys to regions off the beaten track. Burma is a country under food system, rewilding…'' One of the iron rule joys of a succession the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of military regimesthese things was that there are no easy answers, struggling with over half a century of sufferingno single 'right or wrong', much unknown that every upside is likely to the wider international audiencehave a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roger ScrutonEdel Rodriguez|title= Fools, Frauds and FirebrandsWorm: Thinkers of the New LeftA Cuban American Odyssey|rating= 3.54|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=We''Thinkers of the New Left'' first came out re in 1985childhood, under Thatcherand we's government. British left-wing intellectuals gave it savage reviewsre in Cuba. The publisher was threatened with revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a boycott Communist, and the book was withdrawn from bookshopsnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Roger Scruton feels this caused Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his university career to declinetime away. In Our narrator's family weren't in the introductionhappiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he says he is ''reluctant would probably be shipped off to return some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the scene of such a disaster.'' Howeverheat, but in this is a subject he is clearly passionate aboutsultry island country, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe and seen it remains the destructive reality behind kind of heat forcing you out of the fashionable ''leftist ways of thinking.''kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiSarah Wilson|title= I Am MalalaThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 3.5|genre= AutobiographyLifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''SheWhat is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'s a phenomenon' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ' is my OH's response to any mention of MalalaThis! Precisely this. '' I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girlm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. One voice among manySarah Wilson is equally lucky. ItIn her book that takes Oliver's just words as her title (though I can't see that she decided acknowledges the source) she pushes us to speak louder than mostthink about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. We know about Malala because she got luckyHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. She got lucky because when Don't care what you're doing, she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearbythinks you (we, doctors who got her to a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and I) could be doing more…And she was flown to 's effing furious about the UK for treatmentfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Metcalf1785633457|title=From Skedaddle to SelfieCharging Around: Words Exploring the Edges of the GenerationEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=3.5|genre=TriviaTravel|summary=I have to go Clive Wilkinson has a roundabout way to introducing this book, so bear history of travelling by unconventional means with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generationspreference for slow travel. The authors of those posited As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been and will be formed by exploring the interplay edges of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) England in regular orderan electric car was not totally outrageous. I don't really hold much store by thatIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and I certainly didnhis wife, Joan, shouldn't know we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for oneit? ''Somebody must have put out an order'', as someone here says of something else. But in the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogers1529153050|title=Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public RelationsBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 54|genre= Business and Finance Humour|summary= I dithered about how to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I have a work related interest in marketing and communications. On Seeking some light relief from the other hand, Danny Rogers has written a book current political turmoil which appealed is coming to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology seem more and storytelling – which of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In shortmore like an adrenaline sport, I was looking forward nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to reading this for many reasons – and it didn’t disappoint31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill LeovyB0B7289HKQ|title=GhettosideConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=There are enough LA rappers around Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to attest that living as spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a black man good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in South Central is no easy task2015. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your peril, They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as crude they may more of a challenge that it would befor most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.}}{{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, but we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''Ghettoside I've got a couple of confessions to make. I' will soon inform the disbeliever that life m not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the streets of LA is hardbook. With There's got to be a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person in Americavery 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 made the LA did I think of the 80s through to the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black menbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk> Well, I loved it.

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

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

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

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

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

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Tony Wilkinson has We begin with a first class honours degree in philosophy telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and has worked in government service most of them stood and investment management - watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the ideal background for a consideration river and began taking tiny amounts of capitalism water and flying back to drop them into the human values which propel itfire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. ItAnd that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.}}{{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 too long ago 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- certainly within my lifetime six- that religion largely dictated the values held year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by individualsDerek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, but true religious belief now seems to be in the exception rather than US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the ruleworld. In its We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place we 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 the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a society for whom consumerism is backlash against the driving force police - and a widening gap between those who can afford to consume and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''Getting and spending have come to define who we are.all''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>tarred by the Chauvin brush.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke GittosMatthieu Aikins|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched EvansThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=34.5

|summary=It is said that we live in a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes is on the increase and that the police and the courts are failing to deal with the problem. There's a belief easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the rate of conviction is consistently low. ItWater isn's also said that sexism and misogyny have created t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a society in which rape well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a regular occurrencecriticism, frequently not reported but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to the police accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and that society at large doesn't really caretimes painful journey. Luke Gittos, a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims There are based on myths tense moments and misunderstandings gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the statistics and that far from ''improving'' the whole way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with through. But it's actually working against written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the interests of victimsenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Krien1785633074|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|genre=SportHumour|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and a couple Members of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do Parliament like us to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballerbelieve that the country is run by politicians, just into his twenties and follows headed by the Prime minister - the case as it goes to court, interviewing some ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of those directly or indirectly involved you who are Eton and digressing into related areas. In deference to Oxbridge educated) but the fact reality is that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen 'prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to give the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was charged behind the name skilful control of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speakCovid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You could Google might not know the facts and come up with the correct name, now but this isn't a book of gossip about particular peoplehe will certainly be the man to watch. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McMillan1846276772|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatThe End of Bias: In search of the meaning of YorkshireHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, Anyone who is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be ''Yorkshire enough''an able, given white man understands bias in that his father was not they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from Godit: it's Own County, but was simply a Scot by birthpart of everyday life. In a series of discursions on White men will always come first. The able will come before the subject of Yorkshire he attempts to distil disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the essence preserve of the county and to understand what being a Yorkshireman meanswhite man. To this end we accompany him through towns and cities, Even when those who wouldn't pass the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, medical become a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search part of a mattressan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. Amongst others. All It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddingsthe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1529148251|title= Buy Me The SkyMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= ''How am I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoable to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst I havensimultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You't re not going to read all a book of her books, every one that I have essays or a self-help book. You're going to read has writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at some point had me the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in tearsthe lecture theatre. This one was no differentThe disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford0008350388|title=Food Bank BritainWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45

|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''To be a smartlydark-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for foodskinned 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 mile from the riches writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the City of LondonUK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. Intrigued as to what It was going on he went to askher mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The man explained to him family was hard-working, principled and determined that he'd just got their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a job after two years shortage of being unemployed, but anything: it would be five weeks before he was paidsimply carefully harvested. He couldn't claim benefits as he When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in work London and had no savingsthen a place at New College, Oxford.}} {{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= 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 the bins very long ago, if I had to be his source come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of food and by the following week he it interesting, but it would not have to walk to work as he couldn't afford hit home' in the faresway that it does now. That I believe it came to me not just because I was the inspiration for the likely to give it a favourable review [http://www''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.wecarefoodbankss.cop.uk/ We Care Food Bankis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, 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>099308091X</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1787332098|title=Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45

|summary=Generation Z''When we do think about animals, for anyone like me who didn’t knowwe break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, is made up of those young people born between 1995 elephants and 2001so on. It is one And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book wild animals stay out there, ''Generation Z: Their voicessomewhere, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British history' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series. From the radical technological innovation which produced the internet and smart phones '' I was going to multiculturalismargue. I mean, life cows are for these children cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and teenagers is characterised by so I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was not experienced by their parents quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and grandparentsI consider myself an animal lover. In 'Generation Z' If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, thenI would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people todayeggs, in what she wishes chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be 'a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'comfortable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1523092734|title=Azzi in BetweenA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=Our story begins ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in a country at warher life. Again and again and again. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it '' (although it isnAlma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''t named) as it happens all too regularlyTo claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. Our heroine It is Azzi, a young girl whose to live the life was not you've always wanted.'too'' affected by  Sometimes the war, but every day it came reviewing gods are generous: at a little closer. Her father still worked as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then time when violence against women is much in the day came when they had news, ''A Women's Guide to run, for their lives, and escape was Claiming Space'' by boat and they became refugeesEliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. The three of them Now - for Grandma had been left behind to be clear - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on this book is not a temporary basis into another country (again 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the 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 we are not named) and just an easy target to be used to prove that they had a home, although it was just one roomare big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxPolly Barton|title=Where's the Elephant?Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=We've all had great fun Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with books such as the question ''WhereWhy Japan?'s Wally'Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, havenI don't we? They appeal know the answer to children and adults and everyone who has seen 'the question 'Where's the Elephantwhy Japan?'' has jumped She explains her feelings in respect of the question in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friendsfirst essay, who are hiding in there. Elephant which is probably on the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration yousound ''giro' 'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan – which she describes as being, among other things, the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little sound of ''boringevery party where you have to introduce yourself'' if it goes on like this.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>1913097501