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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garrett KeizerClaire Dederer|title=The Unwanted Sound of Everything Monsters: What Do We WantDo with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53
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|summary=What is noise? Do we count birdsong at sunrise as noise? And if so, Dederer sets out to unveil what different term would we use to describe she calls a jet aircraft taking off? Why do we respond so differently to ''biography of the two? Even more intriguinglyaudience'' in a deconstructed, would our response change if thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the birdsong woke us old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. 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 punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an exhausted sleep but artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the aircraft was taking off to jet us on 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 long awaited holiday?personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1586485520</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas RushkoffVirginie Despentes|title=Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it BackKing Kong Theory|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=The author of this book was mugged outside his apartment one Christmas Eve. He posted ''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a note online call to warn his neighbours to be extra careful, and was promptly berated arms for doing something so public that could potentially damage property values women in his local areaa phallocentric society broken at its core. This Originally written in French, the book is a thought-provoking snippetcollection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, and if their placement within the whole book was like thiscan feel somewhat disjointed, I'm sure I would have been grippeda reflection of their original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099516691</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Beaumont1009473085|title=The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|summary=Peter Beaumont is the Foreign Affairs editor at Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The ObserverConservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. He joined If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the paper in 1989 and has spent much of inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the intervening time dealing with the kind of book for you. If that'foreign affairss what you' that is better described as re looking for, I don'war reportingt 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 should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Secret Life of WarConservative Effect'' is a distillation of his years in the fieldan entirely different beast. It is 's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book illfollows the well-served by both its title and its cover, except maybe insofar as both might serve to sneak it onto established format: a series of experts from various fields review the bookshelves state of those who really need to read itthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, but probably wouldn't choose to do so were it more accurately wrappedthe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary YoungeAlastair Humphreys|title=Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?Local
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|genre=AutobiographyTravel |summary=Journalist Gary Younge’s Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book draws heavily on his articles for the Guardian newspaper, as he mentions walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his acknowledgementsintroduction, but it isn’t just a collection of his journalism. Who Are We? the book is partly an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a memoir and partly year exploring a thoughtful and incisive exploration of the politics and political impact of identitysmall map. Nature loss, including racepollution, genderland use and access, language groupsagriculture, religionthe food system, sexuality in various countries around rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the world. He sets out to explore biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong'To what extent can our various identities be mobilized , that every upside is likely to accentuate our universal humanity as opposed to separating us off into various, antagonistic camps?'have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917036</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernhard SchlinkEdel Rodriguez|title=Guilt About the PastWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=ConsiderWe're in childhood, if you will, guiltand we're in Cuba. You might have it tainting youThe revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as 'beyond a saviour of the perpetratorscountry, every person who stands in solidarity with them and maintains solidarity after the fact becomes entangled'. The link might not strictly be has proven himself a legal oneCommunist, but concern 'norms of religion and morals, etiquette and custom as well as day-not done nearly enough to-day communications and interactions'create a level playing field for all. Hence a collective guilt like no other Well, those hours- that witnessed in Germanylong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator'The assumption that membership to a people engenders solidarity is something Germans of my generation do not easily like to accepts family weren', we read. However difficult it might have been back then t in its daythe happiest of places here, Germany had an uncle refusing to physically renounce anything be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to do with Nazismsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, to actively 'opt-out' of connections to avoid such as Angola) and the solidarity seen connecting the whole nation like a toxic spider webfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. And since then it's linked in all The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the childrenheat, but in a ''bequeathal'' this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of guilt.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905636776</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael WolffSarah Wilson|title=The Man Who Owns the NewsThis One Wild and Precious Life: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdochpath back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=There can be few people who are unaware of My favourite Mary Oliver line is the name of Rupert Murdochone 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. '' Over four decades heI's built News International into a seventy billion dollar corporation from its original Australian basem lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. His position in the UK media Sarah Wilson is such equally lucky. In her book that hetakes Oliver's courted by politicians and has what many believe 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 an excessive amount of power for someone who is unequivocal ''no, we are not elected and is not even a UK citizen''. HeDon's now expanding into Southeast Asia and in his eightieth year itt care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's still difficult to imagine when – or where – he will stopeffing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099523523</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil MacFarquhar1785633457|title=The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''What are the chances of change in the Middle East?'' is the question central to this book. Since Neil MacFarquhar spent thirteen years wandering the length and breadth of the Islamic stronghold of the Middle East, I feel inclined to believe his in-depth assessment. In descriptive and reasoned terms, he identifies conservative forces which predominate in the region, primarily the religious and political machinery which condemns liberalization and modernization. This discussion of attempts to promote change, for example by individual dissidents or the media, is strengthened in the second half of the book by detailed case studies of six nations with particular reference to their readiness and motivation for change. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586488112</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Aaronovitch|title=Voodoo HistoriesCharging Around: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped The World|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=What shape is a conspiracy theory? Unusual question, I know, but I think on this evidence it is round. A conspiracy theory is lumpen, ragged, full of holes, and has a huge circular gap where Exploring the obvious and sensible has dropped through, leaving the believer or theorist with the implausible skeleton Edges of what they choose to think instead. They certainly have a habit of coming round in circles - if I mentioned a heinous crime caused England by a western leader that killed hundreds or more people, purely to get their way and get a war started, I could be referring to Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor, Maggie Thatcher and the General Belgrano, or Bush etc and 9/11.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009947896X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewElectric Car|author=Douglas Rogers|title=The Last ResortClive Wilkinson
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|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=Author Douglas Rogers is Clive Wilkinson has a Zimbabwean who moved awayfrom history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the country many years ago, but has never been able to persuadehis parents – two white farmers, Lyn and Roz – to follow him out idea oftheir homeland, despite exploring the resettlement policies edges of Robert Mugabe,the hyper-inflationEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and the corruption in the country. Insteadhis wife, thepair just wanted to stay on the farm welcoming people to DriftersJoan,their backpackersshouldn' lodge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906021910</amazonuk>t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Archie Brown1529153050|title=The Rise and Fall of Communism|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary='A source of hope for a radiant future or…the greatest threat on the face of the earth'. Whichever of these descriptions you would apply to Communism you will find Archie BrownBritain's detailed and largely objective study enlightening and engrossing. On one level, this is a chronological description of how a political force grew to dominate a third of the world's population then virtually disappeared within a period of less than a century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950674</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=Dave Eggers|title=ZeitounTim Benson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Flicking through Seeking some light relief from the channels on the TV the other night current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I stumbled across an interview with George Bushwas nudged towards ''Britain's former Deputy Chief Best Political Cartoons of Staff, Karl Rove. After witnessing an especially cringe making hip hop turn at the Washington Correspondents2022' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo here]. It really is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned to weightier matters, most notably Guantanamo Bay and Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the war on terror and year: the Bush administrations response cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to Hurricane Katrina31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144841</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin BellB0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and How to Save Our Democracy300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=I've long thought it strange Kari (that of all rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the ills that have befallen way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the country over the last few years period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it was not really the bankers' follies or the swine flu that never really got off the ground but the venality of our MPs which caught the public's attention. Compared The decision was made to ride the amounts required Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to bail out a bank the sums involved were minuteAstoria, but moats, floating duck houses and flipping houses caught the imagination and our elected representatives became just a little wary Oregon - all 4250 miles of admitting what they did for a living.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311281</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dominique Lapierre|title=A Rainbow it - in the Night |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over the past forty years into a coherent explanation is always welcome2015. This book explores South Africa's history and development, from the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 They had 73 days to the first racially integrated elections in 1994.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marina Hyde|title=Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=I have what is perhaps a regulardo it -sized interest in A and B-list celebrities. I can name slightly less than the offrecommended time -spring of many an actress, tell you who the spokespeople for certain brands are, write a list of celebs with publicly declared devotions to certain religions, even win the odd pub quiz thanks to knowing the birth names of various performers. I know all sorts of things about this rather small subset of society, but I know the ''what'' more than the ''why'', and that's exactly the problem, according to there were factors which pointed this book. After all, if up as more of us sat down to wonder about what a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it actually ''is'' that the likes of Geri Halliwell and Nicole Kidman bring to the UN, we might seriously question how and why they ever got involved in the first place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532050</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Salman Rushdie|title=Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=We read some authors because we know we're going to enjoy themon. Others, we feel somehow obliged to read. If we consider ourselves ''readers'', Merv Loya was 75 years old and certainly if we have any pretensions (I use the word advisedly) to being ''wellhe was suffering from early-read'', then there are some books and more particularly some authors with whom we are required to become familiar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carole White and Sian Williams|title=Struggle or Starve|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Struggle or Starve is a collection of autobiographical writings about girls' and womenstage Alzheimer's lives in South Wales between the wars. This is a new edition of a book first published in 1998 by Honno, an independent publisher set up to encourage Welsh women writers. Most of the contributors in this book came from miners' families and grew up in real poverty and economic insecurity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784094</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ShieldsJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Reality Hunger: A ManifestoThe Book of Hope
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|genre=Politics and Society|summary='The Novel done thing is Dead' is not really what a novelist wants to read first on picking up a new book – but all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I persevered with Shields' manifesto and don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I'm glad I didwant to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This is a thought-provoking wake-up call that any artist, writer or beautiful book-lover will enjoyhas me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114499X</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chinua Achebe1788360737|title=Artivism: The Education Battle for Museums in the Era of a British-Protected ChildPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=This book Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a collection of autobiographical essays vacuum. It is made by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose best known work is people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the novel Things Fall Apart, published social environment in 1958which he develops’’. Topics covered include NigerianTherefore, Biafran and Igbo history and cultureall art must be political, African literature and the legacy of colonialism even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his country and new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the rest Era of AfricaPostmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. Some The recent trend of the essays are taken from guest lectures at universities around the world so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and conference papers, media elites hoping to create a more globalist and others are written for this book, particularly many of the more personal pieces about Achebe's familyprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846142598</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah Vincent1398508632|title=Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Voluntary Madness'' is journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits to three mental health facilities in America. The first is an urban, public hospital that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted to drugs. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication is always the answer. Soon, the author finds that her latent depression (which led her to do the book in the first place) is returning. The process of being institutionalised breaks her sense of self-worth down astonishingly fast. Indeed, she suggests that it is the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, that makes it so hard for them to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWilderness Cure|author=Gabriel Weston|title=Direct RedMo Wilde
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|summary=Men aren't Martian It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and women don't hail from Venusa pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. We're all Earthlings apparently; She had electricity which seems like progress of allowed her to run a sortfridge, freezer and dehydrator. Even so we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish She had a car - and Femalesefuel. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written Most importantly, she had shelter: this light hearted volume was not a plan to define the problem and translate''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Hooper1529149800|title=The Tall ManThings You Can Do: Life How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Death on Palm IslandSara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when he was arrested on Palm Islandthe forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. Quite why he The animals laughed: what good was arrested was never clearthat doing. He wasn't drunk, although he had been drinking beer – and was walking along the road singing 'I'Who Let m doing the Dogs Out?best I can'' , said the hummingbird. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt And that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance and he was taken to , really, is the police station. What happened next was to be only way that we will solve the subject problem of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming yearsclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was deadhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Fowley1638485216|title=How Could She?Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45
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|summary=From the age of five Dana Fowley was subjected to unimaginable sexual abuse and before long her sister would be subjected to more of the same. She was raped by her mother's partner and taken to the homes of her grandparents where she was abused by them and others'Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. At other times she was forced to go It has everything to the homes of other men where she was raped and abuseddo with character. Did her mother not know what was going on? Did she turn a blind eye? It was neither of thosePeriod.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas SternMatthieu Aikins|title=A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save The Naked Don't Fear the World and Create ProsperityWater
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|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The hardback edition of Naked Don't Fear the Water isn'A Blueprint for t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a Safer Planet' was published early in 2009 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 an update to the 2006 Stern Review a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the economics of climate changewhole way through. Now here is But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the paperback edition, published too early reader to critique Copenhagen, but nonetheless an interesting read. Stern is an expert witness who presents his evidence understandably for perfectly envisage the layman; he is unemotional environments and very convincingpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou 1785633074|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green BandwagonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Did you know Members of Parliament like us to believe that Horlicksthe country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that great sleep aid, 's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is sold in India as a startthat the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers -theSPADS -day energy boost? Not another concoction under who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the same brandmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the Exact Same Productman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Furedi1846276772|title=WastedThe End of Bias: Why Education Isn't EducatingHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5
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|summary=It seems the more problems the school-aged generation pose to societyAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the more responsibility schools have extent to take, teaching not which they suffer from it: it's simply English and Mathsa part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, but Personal Thinking and Learning Skillspromotions, Happiness Classes, and Emotional Educationhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. The duty to raise Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a child well is taken out part of the apparently an organisation it'incompetents rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It' hands s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of parents, and given over to the education system, where values can be regulated and controlledbias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847064167</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Butterworth1529148251|title=Reversing Global Warming For Profit Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=3.5
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|summary=There aren't many climate change deniers left, are there? We all know it's there. We all knowHow am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, toomalpractice and poverty, that the worldyet still compartmentalise? It's population growth is on a collision course with as though I were telling the dwindling of its resources. The world's going to get hotter, its weather more extreme. Fossil fuels are going to run outtruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312810</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur 0008350388|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide We Need to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner|title=No Expenses SparedOtegha Uwagba|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's always struck me 'To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as strange that in a period of twelve months which saw Banks collapseless desirable, less hireable, stock markets tumble less intelligent and house prices slide the public have reserved most of their ire for a relatively small group of people who were not exceptionally wellultimately less valuable than my light-paid in the first place, but many of whom took the opportunity to make the most of the generous expenses which they could claimskinned counterparts... '' There are only six hundred and forty six Members of Parliament – twelve months ago they were generally respected but many are now pariahs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065778</amazonuk>}}''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian JackRichard Brook|title=The Country Formerly Known As Great BritainUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=I think 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 ago, if I had come across this book I've d have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now managed to master the maxim about not judging books by their covers. I still struggle with the one about believe it came to me not judging them by their titles and just because I very nearly cam unstuck and missed was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Country Formerly Known as Great BritainBookbag's u. Being just about of an age with the author I worried s.p. is that it might be people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a treatise about predisposition towards expecting to like the fact book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'things weren't like this when I was ] – but also because it is a lad'. book I was even more worried that I might agree with himneeded to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224087355</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist1787332098|title=Pocket How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World in Figures 2010|author=Henry Mance
|rating=5
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|summary=It's just 'When we do think about a year since I reviewed [[Pocket World In Figures 2009 by The Economist|Pocket World in Figures 2009]] animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and at the time – September 2008 – so on. And we were watching assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in horror as the world financial crisis unfolded before our eyes. Looking back now the surprise is that for most people what happened came out of the blue. The clues were plain to see and all here rubbish bins, elephants in this handy little book. There was the worrying state of the Iceland economy zoos, and different levels of mortgage lending in various parts millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the worldnext David Attenborough series. Best of all it was presented as verified figures, without any accompanying narrative and it's consequently free of political spin. Bliss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681367</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arundhati Roy 1523092734|title=Listening A Women's Guide to GrasshoppersClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
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|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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