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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartEdward W Said|title=That's Racist: How Representations of the regulation of speech and thought divides us allIntellectual
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|summary=Adrian Hart has a long history of campaigning against racism, not least because he was subjected to racial abuse when he was at school. With jet-black hair and a complexion that was just Edward Said's ''slightlyRepresentations of the Intellectual'' darker than was normal he was the closest that his school had to someone who might be of Pakistani origin. It was only name calling from is less a group strict theory of boys but the experience stuck what intellectuals are and he's put much of his working life where his mouth ismore a passionate argument for what they should be. So, you might expect that he would be a devotee Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the zero tolerance approach intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to racist speechother specialists. Instead, but he's far from certain that this is insists on the right way intellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itselfpower even when it is inconvenient or risky.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>1804272248
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{{newreview|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaFrontpage|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfAriel Saramandi|ratingtitle=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 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 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 Portrait 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 Conservative|author=Roger ScrutonIsland on Fire|rating=34.5
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|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one In this powerful collection of the few intellectually authoritative voices in British conservatism'. His central theme in this book is essays, Saramandi seeks to defend and champion intradermally dissect the value sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the homewounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', a society based on free association and blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the nation state. The simplest malignant forces of biographical sections demonstrates that the author was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock but within a Labour-votingracism, lower middle class familypatriarchy, to demonstrate that his conservatism was not inherited but environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a product kind of his own intellectual journeydiagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>1804271616
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Wall Between UsGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|authortitle=Matthew SmallThe City and the World
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|summary=In this personal account of his visit to Israel ''The City and the West BankWorld'', Small journals Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. With a deep affection for the urban landscapes that have shaped his time spent life, Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on the Lower Rhine with people he meets along a blend of personal memory and thoughtful observation. His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the way emotional and attempts mental geographies tied to make sense of the conflict that has dominated this area each location, for many yearsexample, his perspectives as a child as opposed to as an adult. Small openly admits the issue there is not From Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, Hens traces a simple one map of experiences, turning cities into reflections of identity and his visit reinforces the fact that there are many complexities preventing peace from happeningbelonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910266302</amazonuk>1804271691
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan ShawPaul B Preciado|title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need Dysphoria Mundi
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|summary=The 2010 Strategic Defence ''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and Security Review has stayed brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the mind for the wrong reasons: rather than looking to develop a strategyproportional, valid response to examine ''the short epistemological and long term threats which the country facedpolitical crack we are living through, and the emphasis was on cutting costs, with some cuts appearing ludicrous at first glancetension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. In The whole text is framed against the intervening years there have been occasions when it was difficult not to wonder if backdrop of the United Kingdom was poorly equipped - and without clear-cut aims Covid- 19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a result of the 2010 reviewglobal scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. The opportunity to put Rather than taking this right comes in 2015 and Major General Jonathan Shaw looks not at what the Review should sayextreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, but at how it should be tackledPreciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908323817</amazonuk>1804271454
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The EconomistJacqueline Feldman|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Precarious Lease|rating=43.5|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=There are people who don't understand the joy The title of raw data: no accompanying analysis this novel refers to a French legal term (or spin''bail précaire'') - just a collection associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of figures relevant to a other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular circumstance. If you're interest in one squat of those people then this book will mean little to youmassive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, but if you want admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a pocket haven for artists and marginal members of society (wellas one character, Le Général, certainly handbag or briefcaserepeats throughout, ''I live on the margins of the margins of the margins'') work , Le Bloc was subject to the continual threat of reference then this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy to a diplomat eviction and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem pressures from above which she had to know without delayoppressed its inhabitants' lives. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a tragedy in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtthis book.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>1804271403
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful GovernmentClaire Dederer|authortitle=Ed StrawMonsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53
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|summary=Confidence Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in politicians the context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is at an all-time loworiginal and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In factparticular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an alarming number of Britons express outright contempt, not just artist she personally admires for their leadershis art, but and yet despises for the entire political class - for the politicans themselveshis actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the civil servants standing behind themfirst few chapters, even for interrogating the Westminster bubble likes of commentators Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and policy wonksPablo Picasso. We vote for them in everHer 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.|isbn=1399715070}}{{Frontpage|author=Virginie Despentes|title=King Kong Theory|rating=4|genre=Autobiography |summary=''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-decreasing numbers hitting memoir and even those who continue feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to vote often do not feel representedarms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Worse stillOriginally written in French, the younger you are, book is a collection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the more likely you are complex prism of her varied life: from rape to be politically disengagedsex work and pornography. We're in danger of losing an entire generation from Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the political process. How book can this be good for feel somewhat disjointed, a democracy?reflection of their original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>099294760X</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=Harry's Last StandThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Harry Leslie SmithAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|summary=RAF veteran Harry Leslie Smith rose Sometimes it's simpler to prominence last year with explain a famous Guardian article 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'This yeart the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I will wear don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a poppy compelling read and should be compulsory for the last timeanyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It' about s the way seventh book in a series which looks at the remembrance of those who died in the great wars impact a government has been made and co-opted to justify today’s military conflictseditor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. Here, he tackles themes This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of poverty, political corruption, unemploymentthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and a lack of hope felt by so many people todaythe situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848317263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= 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 year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and Her Worldthat there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Stefan KorneliusEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=BiographyGraphic Novels|summary=You have to admire the ladyWe're in childhood, this rather awkward and shy daughter of a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholic. His daughter studied with such intelligence and application that soon brought her academic success particularly we're in Russian and finally in Quantum ChemistryCuba. At the age of 26 The revolution has happened, she obtained her doctorate and - in passingCastro, it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkel. Her rise to power was rapid and took place through the period in which the DDR collapsed thought of as Russian policy under Gorbachev changed. Along with a wry and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment saviour of the characteristic known in German as ''fleissig'' - hardworkingcountry, seduloushas proven himself a Communist, diligent and assiduousnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Atheist Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's History family weren't in the happiest of Belief|author=Matthew Kneale|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=I’ve been places here, an atheist since I was old enough uncle refusing to take a view on be the good soldier the subject. country demanded (Many atheists especially as he would argue that we’re all atheists at birthprobably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, but that’s and not a subject liked for a book review)his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. I did have The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to take Religious Studies at school ease some of the heat, but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Notebooks, 1922-86Sarah Wilson|authortitle=Michael OakeshottThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Michael Oakeshott My favourite Mary Oliver line is usually described as a conservative thinkerthe 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! Precisely this. According '' I'm lucky enough to Perry Anderson, his work influenced John Majorbe living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's style of politics; he named him in 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 London Review of Books in 1992 as one of four ‘outstanding European theorists of life we want – the intransigent Right’best life that we could be living. Luke O’Sullivan Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, who edited this collection of notebooks, has often said that he considers such descriptions limitingwe are not''. O’Sullivan is clearly enthusiastic about Oakeshott’s work and strove to enable these notebooks Don't care what you're doing, spanning a period of over sixty yearsshe thinks you (we, to I) could be publisheddoing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845400542</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=The Why AxisCharging Around: Hidden Motives and Exploring the Undiscovered Economics Edges of Everyday LifeEngland by Electric Car|author=Uri Gneezy and John ListClive Wilkinson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Wow! This is Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a most surprising economics bookpreference for slow travel. Behavioral economists (if you’ll excuse As he neared his eightieth birthday the American spelling) investigate people’s buying behaviour and consuming patterns. I guess we know about that already because supermarkets here lull us into buying three for idea of exploring the price edges of twoEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, to come back next week it should be a pleasant holiday for £10 off a £100Clive and his wife, Joan, or to garner extra points on a loyalty card (Oh why can’t they just go for a cheaper price at shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the point of sale? Why do profits have current political turmoil which is coming to be in double percentage point increases year on year?). A fair bit of manipulation to ensure that a company survives is already part seem more and parcel more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of our lives2022''. If you’d asked me before I read this book, I would Sharp eyes will have lined up noted that sort of consumer marketing psychology alongside banking as profiteering. However … these guys are differentwe're not yet through the year: they really do seem to care about the plight of the underprivileged, and they come cartoons run from an academic setting, rather than a commercial one4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946747</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain de BottonB0B7289HKQ|title=The NewsConversations Across America: A UserFather and Son, Alzheimer's Manual, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Alain de Botton maintains Kari (that 'rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the news' has assumed way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the position in our lives which period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was once occupied by religionmade to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, with some consumers viewing Oregon - all 4250 miles of it as often as every fifteen minutes (slight blush there - let's say about every hour...)in 2015. Furthermore, we They had 73 days to do it completely unprotected against every political scandal or celebrity story- slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. The subMerv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-title 'A Userstage Alzheimer's Manual' sets out to remedy this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HYGYIGA</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert A CaroJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means Book of AscentHope
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|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society |summary=It's only The done thing is to read a matter of days since book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I finished listening to [[The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path don’t want to Power by Robert A Caro|The Years lose any of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]], the first part experience of Robert A Caro's definitive work on the President and despite having just spent over forty hours on the reading this amazing book , I wanted want to learn morecapture it as it hits me. I was torn though - the second book in a series And it is not often as good as the first and it struck hitting me that these might not be the most exciting years in Johnson's life. Was this This beautiful book going to be the link which took us on to the more exciting times? Not a bit of ithas me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360737|title=A Good African StoryArtivism: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee BrandThe Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Andrew RugasiraAlexander Adams|rating=32|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There are few billionaire black African entrepreneursCan art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. As Andrew Rugasira points out It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in ''A Good African Story''which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the people who make money from African exports are virtually always white WesternersEra 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: left wing). Even Fair Trade participants remain skewed Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by the status quo of trade barriers which discriminate against Third World countrieslarge “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571927</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=Play It Again: An Amateur Against The ImpossibleWilderness Cure|author=Alan RusbridgerMo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=I’ve maintained It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long time that I’ll read anythingconsumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, if it’s well-enough written. So it particularly in Central Scotland was with this fascinating memoirperhaps not the best time to start, even though it’s in a year in world where the life of an amateur pianistnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and I don’t play a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the piano – or indeed area around her was a note known habitat with a variety of musicterrains. I couldn’t even have placed the name Alan Rusbridger in his professional role before I read the book She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. A quick browse through the first couple of pages on Amazon revealed that the author could indeed tell She had a clear story: it is his stockcar -in-trade as Editor of the Guardianand fuel. And the book duly held me through Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a messy, interrupted week of bedtime readingplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529149800|title=WinterThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Adam GopnikEduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=In this collection of five essays, each one offering We begin with a unique telling story. All the birds and fascinating perspective on animals fled when the season forest fire took hold and most of winterthem stood and watched, Adam Gopnik takes unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art river and began taking tiny amounts of water and society, through flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''Romantic WinterI'', ''Radical Winterm doing the best I can'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''said the hummingbird. In each essay And that, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themesreally, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For example, in Romantic Winter his central topics are art and poetryis the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however, issues such as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add a charming, individual touch to this booksmall that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
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|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, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, 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 the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthieu Aikins|title=Outraged The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=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 criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle Englandborder crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Nigel CawthorneJosh Berry|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fastMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they havenheaded by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares''t rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already, cooking for their working menfolk… It(that's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted for those of Tunbridge Wells' tag, you who are Eton and as a book to be shelved alongside those with Oxbridge educated) but the wackier letters sent to reality is that the ''Daily Telegraphprime'', these selections from movers are the special advisers - the Royal town's press itself make a great eyeSPADS -opener who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the complaints and complainants memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of Kent2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050We Change Our Minds|author=Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)Jessica Nordell
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|summary=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. The authors are leading researchers in their fields, and their papers have been critiqued by peer-reviewersable will come before the disabled. Each Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the chapters reports white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the results of medical become a modelling exercise, examining progress or decline in one part of ten key areasan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, including armed conflict, trade barriers, malnutrition, air pollution, ecosystem and biodiversity, health, water and sanitationthat their concerns are acknowledged. Key economic, growth It's personally appalling and other variables from credible sources provided a common set degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of data and assumptions, used in each studythe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1107679338</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
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{{Frontpage
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|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=''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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Peas 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 Queues: sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Minefield of Modern MannersBookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Sandi ToksvigHenry Mance
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|summary=Dear Sandi ''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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=Global Modernity and Other EssaysA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Tom RubensEliza Van Cort|rating=45
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|summary=It’s been difficult to write this review''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. The book’s eclectic nature, with subject matter ranging from Nietzsche to the English Police ForceAgain and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, makes it difficult to summarise and secondlyformer CMO, I’m no academic and philosophy is just HARD|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845405633</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George BrockPolly Barton|title=Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital AgeFifty Sounds|rating=34.5
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|summary=At about Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the turn of the century most people question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on the street where I live had my radar for a morning paper delivered while and a good number also got an evening paper. The queue at if the newsagent in the village world hadn't gone into melt-down I would be out of the door each morning as people picked up a paper on their way to workhave visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I candon't remember when I last saw a newspaper boy (or girl) know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on their rounds and we only buy the weekend papers sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as an indulgence with a more leisurely breakfast. Times being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have changed - and thereto introduce yourself''s no sign that the situation is likely to settle in the near future.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749466510</amazonuk>1913097501
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