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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess PhillipsClaire Dederer|title= EverywomanMonsters: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the TruthWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''Everywomanbiography of the audience'' announces itself proudlyin a deconstructed, with a chapter named thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of contemporary ''cancel culture'The Truth about Speaking up'. 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. Jess PhillipsIn particular, the Labour MP prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for Birmingham Yardleyhis art, tells us many times that she is and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''gobbymonstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and that she has a loud voicePablo Picasso. Her critical voice does come throughis acutely present throughout, clear never slipping into anonymity and urgent. Using maintaining her journey to Westminster own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and her experiences in Parliamenta personal, Phillips teaches the reader the truths she's learned on her journeyrather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786330776</amazonuk>1399715070

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tormod V BurkeyVirginie Despentes|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?King Kong Theory

|genre= Animals and WildlifeAutobiography |summary= Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of nature. He 'King Kong Theory'' is no longer part of the ecosystema hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, but instead exists above it through his dominating wayswhich can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. He is himself distanced even further by advancement Originally written in technologiesFrench, industry, money and all the pollution that comes with them. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, book is a collection of essays in which, if it continues, will make Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the world unrecognisablecomplex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. For Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the world to become fullerbook can feel somewhat disjointed, for it to be a world that seeks to provide for the needs reflection of every living thing, then it needs to changetheir original form as independent essays. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>191309734X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum1009473085|title= The Future of Violence Conservative Effect 2010 - Robots and Germs, Hackers 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Drones: Confronting the New Age of ThreatTom Egerton (Editors)|rating= 45

|summary=Looking back over this month, April 2017, the news has been full of terrorist attacks perpetrated Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by lone individualsdescribing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. A suicide bombing 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 St Petersburg Metro killed 15 people and injured 64 morebook for you. In Stockholm If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, Sweden{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a hijacked truck steered into a pedestrian shopping area compelling read and department storeshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Most recently, It's the seventh book in a shooting in Paris just two days ago, claimed series which looks at the life of impact a police officer government has made and injured several othersco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. Whilst it is true that governments have access to impressive, cuttingThis book follows the well-edge technology to combat terrorismestablished format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, it is also a fact the changes that these resources are becoming increasingly available to individualsoccurred and the situation in 2024. At what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lynn KnightAlastair Humphreys|title= The Button BoxLocal|rating= 45|genre= HistoryTravel |summary= Buttons are the underdogs of Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements of clothing, falling into the same dustbin category with zips . And then written about it. For this book he walked and shoe laces, they tend cycled very close to be seen as necessary for keeping clothes onhome and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, rather than contributors to style. But Lynn Knight the book is set an attempt ''to prove that the opposite is trueshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. We think nothing of lacing discussions about clothing Nature loss, pollution, land use and feminism with headscarvesaccess, agriculture, bikinisthe food system, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on rewilding…'' One of the pedestal joys of gender discussionthe 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', toothat every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul FlynnEdel Rodriguez|title= Good As YouWorm: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay BritainA Cuban American Odyssey|rating= 54|genre= History Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The last 30 years have seen revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a tidal wave saviour of change sweep the country with regards , has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to how gay people are perceived and acceptedcreate a level playing field for all. In 1984 Well, the pulsing electronic beats those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren'Smalltown Boy'' became t in the happiest of places here, an anthem uncle refusing to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, a virus called HIV be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be identifiedshipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, spreading a climate of panic such as Angola) and fear across the nationfather being watched and watched, and marginalising a community who were already ostracisednot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. 30 years later though, The mother gets the long road to gay equality would reach a climax couple jobs with the legalistion party to ease some of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones that affected heat, but in this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Youngsultry island country, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smith. This is it remains the story kind of heat forcing you out of Britain's brothers, sons, cousins, fathers and husbands. Of public outrage and personal loss, the (not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised to be as Good As You. kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Aylwin ThomasSarah Wilson|title= Blades of GrassThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= BiographyLifestyle|summary= Any book My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that has me in tears at the end has been worth line so much because my timeanswer is ''This! Precisely this. '' Any book that has me hoping it will end differently I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I know it must want to. Sarah Wilson is worth the readingequally lucky. Any In her book that convinces me takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that maybe there is still hope in she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the world life we want – that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – best life that is worth the writing and the reading and the timewe could be living. Blades of Grass Her answer is one such bookan unequivocal ''no, we are not''. ItDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's a forgotten story, an unknown story to most people. It is one effing furious about the fact that should be told – and reflected uponwe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Preston1785633457|title=A Very English ScandalCharging Around: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at Exploring the Heart Edges of the EstablishmentEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=True CrimeTravel|summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort Clive Wilkinson has a history of person who was generally liked travelling by othersunconventional means with a preference for slow travel. He was flamboyant and gregarious but could give As he neared his eightieth birthday the impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget a name and he was witty, charismatic and very charming. He appeared to be a decent man, with views with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment and membership idea of exploring the Common Market, as the European Union edges of England in an electric car was then knownnot totally outrageous. For this was the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age of thirty and by 1967 he would In fact, it should be party leader. On the surface he was a man who had everything going pleasant holiday for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973740</amazonuk>Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Bakewell1529153050|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|summary= You know that old saying about judging books Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by their cover? Ignore it! I have found people. Antonio Gramsci stated that by judging a ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book by its cover and getting ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it completely wrong is a great way art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to find yourself committed become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to reading a book that you'd never have picked in create a million years more globalist and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)1398508632|title=The Benn Diaries: The Definitive CollectionWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=Tony Benn must be one of It had been on the cards for a while but it was the most famous diarists week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of the modern ageeating only wild food. He kept a diary from his schooldays The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the nineteen forties until he made his last entry best time to start, in 2009a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, five years before his deathBrexit and a pandemic. Benn Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was also a particularly charismatic politician: since my teens I've found myself listening to him believing that I disagreed known habitat with what he was saying and then realising that perhaps we weren't so far apart after all. Whatever he spoke about always gave food for thoughta variety of terrains. Of course the ideal way She had electricity which allowed her to enjoy the diaries would be to read the individual volumesrun a fridge, beginning with {{amazonurl|isbn=0099497719|title=Years Of Hope: Diaries,Letters freezer and Papers 1940dehydrator. She had a car -1962}}, but that's a lengthy undertaking and ''The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collection'' edited by Ruth Winstone gives you the opportunity to sample the best of the diaries in a mere seven hundred or so pagesfuel. Be warned thoughMost importantly, she had shelter: there has been this was not a previous {{amazonurl|isbn=0099634112|title=composite volume}}, also called plan to ''The Benn Diarieslive'' and published in 1996. The current volume goes wild just to 2009live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786330768</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Henning Mankell1529149800|title= QuicksandThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating= 54|genre= AutobiographyHome and Family|summary= How do you judge We begin with a book? telling story. Not by its coverAll the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, we're toldunable to think of anything they could do. In my case, often by The tiny hummingbird flew to the number river and began taking tiny amounts of turned down corners or post-it-note-marked pages by water and flying back to drop them into the time I've finished reading itfire. Sometimes, by whether I worry about leaving its characters to fend for themselves while I take a break…or by how much of it stays with me afterwards or for how longThe animals laughed: what good was that doing. In this case, it doesn't matter. However, 'I judge 'm doing the best I can'Quicksand'' the judgement comes up , said the samehummingbird. This collection of vignettes from an ageingAnd that, possibly dyingreally, writer looking back on his own life is as powerful as it is simplethe only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, as easy to read as it is impossible to forgethowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anne Glyn-Jones1638485216|title= Morse Code Wrens of Station XBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryAutobiography|summary= Bletchley Park ''Corruption is probably now the least secret of all the secret ops that went on during World War IInot department, gender or race specific. I for one am pleased about that: technology It has moved on so far that there caneverything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't be anything that happened back then 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 communications front that is worth continuing to shroud in mysteryworld. With most We rarely see pictures of the participants either departed or at least in the departure lounge, the more recollections we can still gather the bettera murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. What remained secret far longer however, The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the work of the telegraphers that served Station X: those posted to the Y-stationsprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There are few of them left to tell their tales, so I applaud those who finally saw fit (was a) to release them from their lifebacklash against the police -long bonds of secrecy and (b) encourage them to write it down, tell us what it was really likenot just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald NaismithMatthieu Aikins|title=A Bradford ApprenticeshipThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5

|summary=with all schools removed from their control and established as freestanding and self-governing academies. In effect this would (and possibly will) mean It's easy to forget at times that what was once a national serviceThe Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, locally administered will become because it reads very much like a local service, nationally administeredwell-paced thriller at times. Donald Naismith This is perhaps best known as the former Chief Education Officer of Richmond-upon-Thamesnot by any means a criticism, Croydon and then Wandsworth but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his education friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and formative working years took place in his adopted home city gripping accounts of Bradford. In ''A Bradford Apprenticeship'' he gives us an affectionate tribute to the city border crossings which made him what he is and his thoughts had me on edge the education systemwhole way through. Bradford was once one of the countryBut it's leading education authorities written with a haunting and he values almost lyrical quality that allows the opportunities it gave him reader to fine tune his thinkingperfectly envisage the environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636118</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri Hustvedt1785633074|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the MindStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society Humour|summary= I must confess Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'A Woman Looking'(that' spoke to me on a profound, intimate level. This s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is in part due to that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt SPADS - we are both feminists who love art and also love science in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivethe driving force behind the government. What Hustvedt suggests We are in ''A Woman Looking'' is that it is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesiveprivileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinesman 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 man to watch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T J Coles1846276772|title=The Great Brexit SwindleEnd of Bias: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=''Have you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcare? If so, you might be entitled to compensation...'' There wasn't much could make me laugh on the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed it. Only, it seems that it wasn't completely a joke - well apart from the bit about compensation. In ''The Great Brexit Scandal'' T J Coles looks at the substantial core of free marketeers in the Conservative party who were determined to rid the UK of the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activities. You might also know these views as ''neoliberalism'', an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profits. On the surface that doesn't sound bad, until you realise that the benefit will go to the people who are already in the group which Coles refers to as the ''mega-rich'' and the losers will be working people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570813</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHow We Change Our Minds|author= Erin Moore|title= That's Not EnglishJessica Nordell|rating= 4.5

|summary=It's Anyone who is not clear who first coined an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the expression ''divided by a common language'' about Brits and Americans, but as this highly entertaining book demonstrates, extent to which they suffer from it: it isn't our language that divides us. On the contrary the language s simply reflects the divisions that exist. We tend to watch a lot part of TV at home, but rarely find anything that totally engrosses useveryday life. As a result we tend to talk over a lot of TV White men will always come first. We play games with some of what we watchThe able will come before the disabled. One Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of those games is spotting anachronismsthe white man. Another is "would she ever have got the job" – particularly fun with crime programmes that think it's ok for lab techs to have long free-flowing locks Even when doing evidence analysis or have Detective Sergeants those who frankly wouldn't have passed pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their CV submissionviews are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. A long-running one involves spotting It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the spread receiving end of British English in American TV shows. Erin Moore explains why. Not directly, indeed Ithe bias but it'm s not sure she even makes just the connection – but the fact that there individuals who are a lot more Brits in the higher echelons of US TV-making might just explain why CSI, NCIS, Law and Order and a whole host of other shows will slip in words like wallet, handbag, boot (of a car), pavement…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701912</amazonuk>negatively impacted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris McIvor1529148251|title=The World is ElsewhereMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=As a Country Director''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, Chris McIvor has worked for a number of years at Save yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the Childrentruth whilst simultaneously running away from it. 'The World is Elsewhere' covers his time there and, his journeys across  Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a number certain frame of countriesmind. It is You're not going to read a beautiful mix book of autobiography and travelessays or a self-help book. It also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the good and television industry at the bad with a very easy, conversational writing style that makes Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book truly captivating. I read from cover but you need to ''listen'' to cover the words as though you're in a single sitting, unusual for a reviewer. Such was the draw as he laid himself barelecture theatre. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Bikont0008350388|title= The Crime and the Silence|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brother, your mother, your uncle? These are the questions Anna Bikont struggles to ask during her investigation into a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941. The Crime and the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story of a community torn apart by hatred and intolerance. It is also a moving testament We Need to the dedication of Bikont, who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Kate Harrad|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in BritainOtegha Uwagba

|summary=Before reading Kate Harrad's thought provoking insight into bisexuality in Britain I have 'To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to confess be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to being as guilty of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone elseTalk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0. It is only when you read this collection 7% of essays and anecdotes, you realise the prejudice they face on English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a daily basis. The very nature writer of bisexuality is widely misunderstood colour while only 7% study a book by the heterosexual and gay communities alike. As a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised, or, in the worst-case scenario, completely ostracisedwoman. Far from having, ''the best of both worlds ''The Bookseller'', they are considered 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to be sitting on the fenceUK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, unable to come to terms with their true sexualityher father joining them later. ''Purple Prose'' tackles these myths and ill The family was hard-informed ideas head onworking, principled and in determined that their children would have the process shows best education possible. There was always a community that does have many issues, just painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the ones that are being laid family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at their doorNew College, Oxford. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0996460160</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wade GrahamRichard Brook|title=Dream CitiesUnderstanding Human Nature: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldA User's Guide to Life

|genre= HistoryLifestyle|summary=Between 1950 I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and 2014 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 worldway 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 Bookbag's urban population increased from 746 million to 3u.s.9 billionp. The urbanising trend is set to continue with the United Nations predicting that by the middle of the century 66% of us will be city dwellerspeople chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried predisposition towards expecting to cope with like the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The Worldbook, Wade Grahameven if it doesn't always turn out that way''s excellent field guide ] – but also because it is a book I needed to the modern worldread, right now. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T J Coles1787332098|title=Britain's Secret WarsHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance

|summary= Britain's Secret Wars is a chilling 'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and disturbing book to readso on. With all four corners of the globe hell-bent And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on conflictsofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, oppression and injusticemillions of wild animals stay out there, our sanitised media portrays Britain''somewhere, as a nation, responding '' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to harrowing global eventsargue. What is chilling I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in T J Coles book, is the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the political establishment, through sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the military company of humans and intelligence community appear to be complicit in instigating many the company of themanimals, I would probably choose the animals. What is disturbing is I insisted that the majority of information he has used I read this book: no one was trying to form his analysis stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and conclusion is freely available fish and in I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the public domaindecision would not be comfortable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570783</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lightburn1523092734|title=An Annoyance of Neighbours: Life is Never Dull When You Have Neighbours!A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=4.5

|summary=You can choose your friends. You can't choose your relatives, but you can 'She brings a hug- usually kick- put some physical distance between you thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and them, but you can't choose your neighbours again and once youagain.'re '(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) 'there'' it can be very expensive or even impossible To claim space is to break live the linklife of choosing unapologetically and bravely. Now, I can't give It is to live the life you any advice on this thorny subject as it's more than thirty years since I've been in a position to have anything to complain about, but Angela Lightburn knows all there is to knowalways wanted. She's spent years collating all the different problems which people have with their neighbours and ways of improving the situation which don't involve a lengthy prison sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892029</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna|title= Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance |rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=Here we are, world, in the midst of a new Renaissance. What will it be, to flounder or to flourish?

The central aim of this discourse is to highlight our current position, and Sometimes the fact that there is a choice to be made. The authors date 1990 as the dawn of reviewing gods are generous: at a new, and our present, Renaissance. As with the last, this time warrants when violence against women is much in a whole host of risks, but it also offers the opportunity to reap the benefits of the changes occurring across the globe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147293637X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Xinrannews, Esther Tyldesley and David Dobson|title= Buy Me The Sky|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''These single-sprout children are more precious than goldA Women's Guide to Claiming Space'', says by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a Chinese woman 'how to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's like something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to grow up as be about how women can be ''goldprotected'' through Xinran. I's conversations with ten adults from the first generation of Chinave always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don's only childrent need protection, people who claim their own space. In the highly informative introduction If all women did this, she tells the story of a 22 year old male student those few men who, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his car, and then was so fearful of the consequences are violent to women would realise that he brutally murdered her. He was tried and executed in a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as we are not just an evil perpetrator and others, a victimeasy target to be used to prove that they are big men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom BowerPolly Barton|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefully, sure that there was going to be a change from the tired, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been suffering. The Blairs' entry into Downing Street the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air and (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before I discovered that the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for the event. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what the 'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high and there's a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this way. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Popham |title=The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomFifty Sounds

|summary=Barely Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a day passes without Islamic militancy making headlines somewhere in while and if the worldhadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, and yet it can be a hard subject but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to grasp. The sudden rise the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of Islamic State and their campaign of shocking violence both the question in the Middle East and further afield has left many confused and fearful, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political response. In "The New Threat From Islamic Militancy"first essay, Jason Burke, a journalist with two decades of experience reporting which is on the Islamic worldsound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, attempts to correct the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism sound of ''every party where you have to give a true understanding of the threat we now faceintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benedict RogersStephen Fabes|title= Burma: A Nation at the CrossroadsSigns of Life|rating= 3.5|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist I was brought up on maps and journalist with an expert insight into Burma, gathered first-hand on journeys person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to regions off strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the beaten trackrequisite 'bottle'. Burma is a country under In order words I'm not the iron rule sort of person who will get on a succession of military regimes, struggling with over half bike outside a century of suffering, much unknown to the wider international audienceLondon hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Scruton1504321383|title= FoolsSingle, Again, and Again, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New LeftAgain|author=Louisa Pateman|rating= 34.5|genre= Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=''Thinkers of the New LeftYou can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man' first came out in 1985, under Thatcher's government. British left-wing intellectuals gave  This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it savage reviews. The publisher was threatened with a boycott and simply the book was withdrawn from bookshops. Roger Scruton feels this caused his university career adults in her life advising her as to declinewhat they thought would be best for her. In It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the introduction, he says he girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without''reluctant to return to the scene of such expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a disaster.belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that '' However, this a belief is a subject he is clearly passionate about, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe and seen the destructive reality behind the fashionable choice''leftist ways of thinking.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>