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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew d'AnconaClaire Dederer|title=Post-TruthMonsters: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=3.5
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|summary=Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''Our own post-truth era is what happens when society relaxes its defence biography of values that underpin cohesionthe audience'' in a deconstructed, namely veracitythoroughly nitpicked, honesty and accountability.exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of contemporary ''cancel culture' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells you. I've been suspicious for a decade or more, but itDederer's become difficult to ignore work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the change in political attitudes since Brexit thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the election of Donald Trumppage. With regard to In particular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the latterdirector Roman Polanski, when Trump was challenged on a statement he'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrectan artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his response was actions. This model of ''Who cares if I got it wrong?monstrous men'' He was able to tap to as she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the fading concept likes of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who were used to waiting patiently in line Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and who had found themselves overtaken by ''womenmaintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, immigrants and public sector workers''a personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen MossVirginie Despentes|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeKing Kong Theory|rating= 4|genre= Animals and WildlifeAutobiography |summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it ''King Kong Theory'' is an unfortunate bya hard-product of human population growthhitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in French, the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests is a few ways collection of essays in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the human way complex prism of her varied life: we from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the book can co-exist with naturefeel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of their original form as independent essays. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Clegg1009473085|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The political landscape is changing rapidly at the momentConservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. A little more than two years ago we were facing If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the end of inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the UKbook for you. If that's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would see anotherwhat 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. Instead we saw It's a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw the end of one Prime Minister compelling read and another elected by a few members of parliamentshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. As I write we're facing another general election, with a 'The Conservative landslide predictedEffect'' is an entirely different beast. In two years weIt've seen 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 follows the Liberal Democrats collapse well-established format: a series of experts from being part various fields review the state of the ruling nation when the coalition to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in a decent-sized car2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess PhillipsAlastair Humphreys|title= Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the TruthLocal|rating=3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=''Everywoman'' announces itself proudlyAlastair 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, with a chapter named the book is an attempt ''The Truth to share what I have learnt about Speaking up''some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Jess Phillips Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardleyfood system, tells us many times that she is rewilding…''gobby 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' and , that she has every upside is likely to have a loud voice. Her voice does come through, clear downside for somebody and urgent. Using her journey to Westminster and her experiences in Parliament, Phillips teaches the reader the truths she's learned on her journeythat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786330776</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tormod V BurkeyEdel Rodriguez|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre= Animals and WildlifeGraphic Novels|summary= Burkey argues that manWe're in childhood, and we's current practices are outside the realms re in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of nature. He is no longer part as a saviour of the ecosystemcountry, but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is has proven himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industrya Communist, money and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all the pollution that comes with them. The natural worldWell, Burkey arguesthose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, no longer exists for man because an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he has altered it by would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such things. Indeedas Angola) and the father being watched and watched, global warming has caused climate changeand not liked for his successful photography business, which, if it continues, will make success being frowned upon. The mother gets the world unrecognisable. For couple jobs with the world party to become fullerease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, for it to be a world that seeks to provide for remains the needs kind of heat forcing you out of every living thing, then it needs to change. the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella BlumSarah Wilson|title= The Future of Violence - Robots This One Wild and Germs, Hackers and DronesPrecious Life: Confronting the New Age of Threatpath back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Looking back over 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 line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this month, April 2017, .'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the news has been full of terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone individualsway I want to. A suicide bombing on the St Petersburg Metro killed 15 people and injured 64 more Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In Stockholm, Sweden, a hijacked truck steered into a pedestrian shopping area and department store. Most recently, a shooting in Paris just two days ago, claimed her book that takes Oliver's 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 of a police officer and injured several othersthat we could be living. Whilst it Her answer is true that governments have access to impressivean unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, cutting-edge technology to combat terrorismshe thinks you (we, it is also a I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that these resources we are becoming increasingly available to individualsnot. At what cost?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445655934</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn Knight1785633457|title= The Button BoxCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 45|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= Buttons are Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the underdogs idea of exploring the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements edges of clothingEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, falling into the same dustbin category with zips and shoe laces, they tend to it should be seen as necessary a pleasant holiday for keeping clothes on, rather than contributors to style. But Lynn Knight is set to prove that the opposite is true. We think nothing of lacing discussions about clothing Clive and feminism with headscarves, bikinishis wife, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on the pedestal of gender discussionJoan, too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Flynn1529153050|title= Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 54|genre= History Humour|summary=The last 30 years have seen a tidal wave of change sweep Seeking some light relief from the country with regards current political turmoil which is coming to how gay people are perceived seem more and accepted. In 1984more like an adrenaline sport, the pulsing electronic beats of I was nudged towards ''Smalltown BoyBritain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022'' became an anthem to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate of panic and fear across the nation, and marginalising a community who were already ostracised. 30 years later though, the long road to gay equality would reach a climax with the legalistion of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones Sharp eyes will have noted that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Young, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smith. This is the story of Britainwe's brothers, sons, cousins, fathers and husbands. Of public outrage and personal loss, re not yet through the (not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and year: the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be as Good As You. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Aylwin ThomasB0B7289HKQ|title= Blades Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of GrassAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyTravel|summary= Any book Kari (that has me in tears at rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the end has been worth my period between two jobs seemed like a good timeto do it. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently The decision was made to ride the way I know Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it must is worth the reading- in 2015. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the world – that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, recommended time - but there is a common humanity were factors which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and the time. Blades pointed this up as more of Grass is one such book. It's a forgotten story, an unknown story to challenge that it would be for most peoplewho considered taking it on. It is one that should be told – Merv Loya was 75 years old and reflected uponhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Preston1739593901|title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the EstablishmentStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=True CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others''Our future will be more complex than we expected. He was flamboyant Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and gregarious but could give the impression that meeting someone had made his dayautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. He never seemed I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to forget read a name few stories and he was witty, charismatic and very charmingthen forget to return to the book. He appeared There's got to be a decent man, with views very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment and membership of the Common Market, as the European Union was then knownworld-building. For this was It's human beings who fascinate me: the nineteen sixties technology and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age of thirty and by 1967 he would be party leaderworld scape are purely incidental. On the surface he was So, what did I think of a man who had everything going for himbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973740</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah BakewellJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= At The Existentialist CaféBook of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics and Society |summary= The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsThe Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=42
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)1398508632|title=The Benn Diaries: The Definitive CollectionWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|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>
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{{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>
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald NaismithMatthieu Aikins|title=A Bradford ApprenticeshipThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5
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|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
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{{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>
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{{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
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris McIvor1529148251|title=The World is ElsewhereMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
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|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 travel. It also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both the good and the bad with essays or a very easy, conversational writing style that makes the self-help book truly captivating. I You're going to read from cover writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to cover in a single sitting, unusual for a reviewer. Such was professionals within the television industry at the draw as he laid himself bareEdinburgh TV Festival. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Bikont|title= The Crime and You might be ''reading'' 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 book but you need to ''listen'' to ask during her investigation into a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community words as though you're in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941lecture theatre. The Crime disjointedness will fade away and the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story of you'll be carried on a community torn apart by hatred and intolerance. It is also a moving testament to the dedication cloud 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 pastexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Harrad0008350388|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in BritainWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wade GrahamRichard Brook|title=Dream CitiesUnderstanding Human Nature: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldA User's Guide to Life
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T J Coles1787332098|title=Britain's Secret WarsHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
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|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>
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{{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
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|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 Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this discourse book is not a 'how to highlight our current positiondisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, and but discussion at the fact that there is a choice moment seems to be madeabout how women can be ''protected''. The authors date 1990 as the dawn of a new I've always thought that women need to rise above this, and our presentto be people who don't need protection, Renaissancepeople who claim their own space. As with the last, If all women did this time warrants in a whole host of risks, but it also offers the opportunity those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to reap the benefits of the changes occurring across the globeprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147293637X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David DobsonPolly Barton|title= Buy Me The SkyFifty Sounds|rating= 34.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''These single-sprout children are more precious than goldWhy Japan?'', says Japan has been on my radar for a Chinese woman to while and if the authorworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. Buy Me The Sky asks what itAnd like Barton, I don's like t know the answer to grow up as the question ''goldwhy Japan?'' through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first generation of Chinaessay, which is on the sound ''giro' ''s only children. In the highly informative introduction, – which she tells the story of a 22 year old male student whodescribes as being, in 2010among other things, ran over a female migrant worker in his car, and then was so fearful the sound of the consequences that he brutally murdered her. He was tried and executed in a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator and others, a victim''every party where you have to introduce yourself''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom BowerStephen Fabes|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy Signs of PowerLife|rating=45|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefullyI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, sure that there I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was going the guts to be a change from the tired, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingsimply go out and do it. The BlairsI also didn' entry into Downing Street t inherit the following day - through crowds kind of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and (perhaps fortunately) it basic practicality that would have meant that I would be years before have survived if I discovered that the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for gifted with the event. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what the 'New Labourrequisite ' government could achieve were unreasonably high and therebottle's a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this way. In order words I've often wondered quite how history m not the sort of person who will see Blair: Afghanistan get on a bike outside a London hospital and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership not come home 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?six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 1504321383|title=The Lady Single, Again, and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi Again, and Burma's Struggle for FreedomAgain|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was released from house arrest after spending 15 of brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the previous 21 years adults in her life advising her as a prisoner of Burmato what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's military juntausually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Political reforms soon followed, culminating with Suu (as she prefers Few girls are lucky enough to be known) being elected to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and tourists poured in; and Suu entered the pantheon of modern-day political heroeshave children. Burma It was a burgeoning democracy, belief and Suu was it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a saint. In reality, as Peter Popham argues in choice'The Lady and the Generals', the situation was far more complex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>
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