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Copper Lady: Life in the Met and Lords
Plodding plod account of rising through the police ranks
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PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
BILLED as the book that reveals the corruption, racism and heavy drinking rife in the Metropolitan Police, Copper Lady is a ponderous potted history of Jenny Hilton, potentially a pioneering police officer, that could have been so much more.
There has been fundamental change during her tenure at the Met, although it takes seven chapters before we even get to her joining the force.
Her journey starts in the 1950s, when women made up just 1 per cent of the service and were left to deal with prostitutes, teenagers and neglected children and ends with her elevation to the peerage in the 1990s, when she spoke out against the Iraq war.
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