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<!-- Wolff -->{{Frontpage[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|leftauthor=Claire Dederer|linktitle=httpsMonsters://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]] ===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]==|rating=3 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening summary=Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''Fire and Fury: Inside biography of the Trump White Houseaudience'' we were treated to in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the unedifying spectacle old aphorism of separating the President art from the artist in the context of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was contemporary ''cancel culture'a stable genius'. 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, as opposedthe prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, we must conclude to being an unstableartist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions... Well, letThis model of ''monstrous men's not go there. It's a little too frightening: this as she calls them, is consistent for the most powerful man in first few chapters, interrogating the worldlikes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. So what made me listen to this book? WellHer critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, Donald Trump didn't want me to read as she holds it: US presidents don't often go down that road so dearly, and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the coverspersonal, rather than collective voice. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]isbn=1399715070<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kurt AndersenVirginie Despentes|title= FantasylandKing Kong Theory|rating= 4|genre= History Autobiography |summary= Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 ''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to 2017 arms for women in awesome detaila phallocentric society broken at its core. Covering five centuries of tempestuous historyOriginally written in French, Andersen paints the conjuring book is a collection of America essays in vivid relief. Discussing everything which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from pilgrims rape to politicianssex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factsbook can feel somewhat disjointed, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wita reflection of their original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>191309734X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nathan Connolly1009473085|title=Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working ClassThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|summary=Simple summarySometimes it's simpler to explain a 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 book 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}}, 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. ''Know Your PlaceThe Conservative Effect'' is an anthology of essays on entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the working class by impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the working classmost important. There are twentyThis book follows the well-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagineestablished format: day trips to a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the seasidecoalition took over in 2010, access the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=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 artsbook is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, food povertypollution, pub cultureland use and access, glass ceilingsagriculture, housing estatesthe food system, vulgarity-as-class-markerrewilding…'' 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 much morethat there are some hard choices ahead. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911585363</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harry Leslie SmithEdel Rodriguez|title= Don't Let My Past Be Your FutureWorm: A Call to ArmsCuban American Odyssey|rating= 54|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= DonWe't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part biography re in childhood, and part rallying call for society to tackle the systemicwe're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the United Kingdom, particularly in the North. Through reflecting on his own experiences during his childhoodcountry, Harry Leslie Smith has painted proven himself a frank Communist, and uncompromising picture not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the grimhappiest of places here, appallingly miserable childhood an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he had to endure due would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the poverty faced by father being watched and watched, and not liked for his family contrasted successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with theparty to ease some of the heat, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today but in a this sultry island country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147212345X</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael BristowSarah Wilson|title= China This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresserfractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= Autobiography Lifestyle|summary=Having worked for nine years My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in Bejing 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.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as a journalist for her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided source) she pushes us to write think about Chinese history. Having been learning whether we really ''are'' living the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in life we want – the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of best life in Communist China - but added to thatwe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of the worldDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's most intriguing nationseffing furious about the fact that we are not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910985902</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis O'Gorman1785633457|title=ForgetfulnessCharging Around: Making Exploring the Modern Culture Edges of AmnesiaEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=After Clive Wilkinson has a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something history of travelling by unconventional means with a relief to encounter ''Forgetfulness'', Francis O'Gorman's thinking on why preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the twenty-first century is losing touch with idea of exploring the pastedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, on why what is likely - or could it should be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone before. The book is supremely intelligenta pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, but with the knowledge worn lightly and shouldn't it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie1529153050|title= Long Road From JarrowBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 54|genre= Travel Humour|summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and Seeking some light relief from the only thing I miss current political turmoil which is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-coming to-earth approach seem more and sharp wit belie more like an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Letadrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's be honest, though, I picked this one up because Best Political Cartoons of someone else2022''s review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I Sharp eyes will have no connection (noted that I know of) to we're not yet through the year: the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too31 August 2022. Tangentially, at least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raymond WilliamsB0B7289HKQ|title= Culture Conversations Across America: A Father and Society 1780-1950Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= From Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the last decades of way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the eighteenth century period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the final words of modernismTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industryVirginia to Astoria, democracy, class, art and cultureOregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. The meanings of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the era in recommended time - but there were factors which their implications were pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who consideredtaking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick West1739593901|title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 15|genre= Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions 'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of modern society flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and uses our society automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to explain his philosophymake. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but 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 best I can do from technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the blurb on technology and the backworld scape are purely incidental. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to cover So, what did I am still none the wiser about the purpose think of this a book. It appears to be a series of personal opinions held together with quotestwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articlesI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny LandrethJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= SwellThe Book of Hope |rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This The done thing is more than just (I say ''just''!) to read a recollection of book all the author's own encounters with water; way through before you sit down to review it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about itI’m making an exception here, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover I don’t want to lose any of the absurd. Not a lover experience of reading this amazing book blurbs myself, I do always seek want to give a shout-out to those who get capture it as it hits me. And it dead right: is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy1788360737|title= Artivism: The ExileBattle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= An account of Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, ''even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Exile'' plunges into Battle for Museum in the murky waters Era of international terrorism, espionage and politicsPostmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view The recent trend of the subject 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 acting media elites hoping to enlighten create a more globalist and inform the readerprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1398508632|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is It had been on the cards for a fierce, witty and laughwhile but it was the week-out-loud funny ode to feminismlong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. In a series The end of open lettersNovember, she addresses particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the issues faced by every modern womanbest time to start, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in a world where the gymnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, as well as more personal issues, like Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her experiences was a known habitat with a variety of being 'catfished' terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and sent abuse onlinedehydrator. This is She had a vital read for any girl born in the 1990scar - and fuel. Most importantly, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its fun exteriorproduce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin1529149800|title=FlaneuseThings You Can Do: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and LondonSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=History Home and Family|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places whereWe begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking unable to think of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')anything they could do. When she imagines The tiny hummingbird flew to herself what the female version river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that well-known historical figure, the carefree doing. ''I'flâneurm doing the best I can'', might besaid the hummingbird. And that, really, she thinks about women who freely wandered is the world's great cities without having only way that we will solve the more insalubrious connotation problem of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saqib Noor1638485216|title=Surgery on the Shoulders of GiantsBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Letters from a doctor abroadA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45

|summary=The letters begin much in the fashion of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back to family and friends to tell them of his experiences, the sights he's seen and the people he's metCorruption is not department, gender or race specific. Ithas everything to do with character. Period.'s ' ''One more body just a little different in wouldn't matter''Surgery on the Shoulders . The murder of Giants'' though: Saqib Noor is George Floyd, a junior doctorforty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, training to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist murder taking place but to give medical assistanceFloyd's death was an exception. TheyThe image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I're countries ll ever forget and the protests which Noor describes as followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''fourth worldall'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperatetarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1521173192</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rebecca AsherMatthieu Aikins|title= Man UpThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= When 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 couple 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 years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with an option 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=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''good ladprimus inter pares' sessions ' (that's for boysthose of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''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 the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, all debate broke loosethe man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. Shouldn You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|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 able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't consent be self-evident pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for everyone? Would the workshops reinforce individuals on the stereotype receiving end of the bias but it'laddishs not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=' boys'How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? Would It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it all .'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be about pointing fingers in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at boys the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops you'll be anything else than carried on a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>cloud of exquisite writing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grindrod0008350388|title= OutskirtsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating= 45|genre =Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary=''OutskirtsTo 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...'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's and '70We Need to Talk About Money''s, as he puts it, by Otegha Uwagba ''I grew up on the last road 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in LondonEngland study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' Grindrod explores ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the introduction of the green beltUK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the various fights and developments best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it has gone through over was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisionsfamily acquired a car. Within this topicFor Otegha, he has somehow managed education meant a scholarship to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with private school in London and then a lot of heartplace at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carolina de RobertisRichard Brook|title= Radical HopeUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= On 8th November 2016I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President this is one of the United Stateslatter. Since then many Americans Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have been overcome with fearskimmed it, worrying about what will become found some of American society during Trumpit interesting, but it would not have 'hit home's administrationin the way that it does now. Carolina de Robertis I believe it came to me not just because I was no exception to this fear and in response likely to the newly elected President and his policies she put out give it a call for actionfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. Radical Hope is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the outcome to this call. De Robertis reached book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of loveread, addressed to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew d'Ancona1787332098|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackLove Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=''Our own post-truth era is what happens when 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 relaxes its defence : cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of values that underpin cohesionwild animals stay out there, namely veracity''somewhere, honesty and accountability'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough was going to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells youargue. I've been suspicious mean, cows are for a decade or more, but itcheese (I couldn's become difficult to ignore t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the change in political attitudes since Brexit and wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the election sake of Donald Trumpit. With regard Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to the latter, when Trump was challenged on a statement he'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was ''Who cares if animals - and I got it wrong?'' consider myself an animal lover. He was able to tap If I had to choose between the company of humans and the fading concept company of 'animals, I would probably choose the American Dream' - those Americans who were used animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to waiting patiently in line stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants fish and public sector workers''I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1523092734|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back BritainA Women's WildlifeGuide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 45|genre= Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary= Wildlife has been declining ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in Britain over her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the last few decades; it life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which much in the modern world has increased significantlynews, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Through Now - to be clear - this book Moss suggests is not a few ways in which we can start 'how to bring back some of Britaindisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's wildlife without compromising something far more effective, but discussion at the human way of life: 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 can co-exist with natureare not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick CleggPolly Barton|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesFifty Sounds

|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the moment. A little more than two years ago we were facing question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the end of the UKworld hadn's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we t gone into melt-down I would see another. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw the end of one Prime Minister and another elected have visited by a few members of parliamentnow. As I write we're facing another general electionmay get there later this year, with a Conservative landslide predictedbut I am not hopeful. In two years weAnd like Barton, I don've seen t know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the Liberal Democrats collapse from first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being part , among other things, the sound of the ruling coalition ''every party where you have to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized carintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>1913097501