Scottish Literature, Borders & the Environmental Imagination
By Julia Ditter
Examining the relationship between #borders & the #environment in #Scottish#literature from the 19th century to the present. For a preview, see Julia Ditter’s article “Reading Scotland’s Borders Through the Environment” – part of the DEBATABLE LANDS issue of THE BOTTLE IMP, May 2022
The Republic of Congo has granted more than 22,000 hectares of agricultural land to Rwanda for a period of 25 years. An agreement that is starting to face increasing criticism from Congolese citizens. Dave Mafoula, an unsuccessful candidate in the 2021 presidential election, calls on his fellow citizens not to accept "things...
when Brexit border checks, charges & subsequent import 'friction' met government IT procurement, the likelihood of further delays at the birder for perishable imports was always high; and so it has come to pass.
The Govt. is claiming these are teething problems, but we can assume it will only be a short time before they attempt to shift the blame to importers & freight firms claiming they were insufficiently prepared
"The insistence that #refugees might be left to drown is the kind of thing that used to be confined to the meeting rooms of dodgy pubs & white supremacist marches where the police always outnumbered the protesters."
Want to see atmospheric yet often really mundane border photos? My online 🇨🇭🇫🇷 walking journal is moving here, as I’m enjoying this new online atmosphere. (I’m freezing new posts on Twatter & just ‘name-holding’ my account.)
Link to last post on one of the longer earlier threads: https://twitter.com/julietjfall/status/1571476764269871104?s=46&t=9RfIT2qARWZk8ZBEIES9Vw
Well, well, well, now the Tories are saying they won't 'turn on' health & safety checks at the borders when the new post-Brexit border controls finally come into force in 12 days time.... causing more confusion, more disruption (as people now don't know when they will be 'turned on')...
the whole things is a classic example of what happens when idiocy meets reality - and these people are (in their at least) running the country.
El Paso, Texas, US
The shadow of razor wire falls on the face of Alejandra, 32, of Venezuela, as she and others prepare to breach a fence into the US from the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso
A coalition of opposition forces in Myanmar has taken control of the busiest border crossing into Thailand. The military regime which seized power in Myanmar three years ago has suffered another big defeat, this time on the eastern border with Thailand. Troops had suffered weeks of attacks by ethnic Karen insurgents, allied with...
George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) – author, historian, journalist, screenwriter – was born #OTD, 2 April, 1925
“His dedication to strongly researched stories, built firmly on a bedrock of historical fact, but always with an eye to the humour of a situation, was the core of what appealed to me”
Historical novelist Michael Jecks discusses George MacDonald Fraser’s writing for the Royal Literary Fund:
“At one moment when President Richard Nixon was taking part in his inauguration ceremony, he appeared flanked by Lyndon Johnson and Billy Graham […] it was one of those historical coincidences which send a little shudder through the mind…”
– George MacDonald Fraser, THE STEEL BONNETS (1971)
In Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Congolese protest following Sassou Nguesso's ceding of part of their land to Rwanda. (www.digitalcongo.net)
The Republic of Congo has granted more than 22,000 hectares of agricultural land to Rwanda for a period of 25 years. An agreement that is starting to face increasing criticism from Congolese citizens. Dave Mafoula, an unsuccessful candidate in the 2021 presidential election, calls on his fellow citizens not to accept "things...
Myanmar military loses border town in another big defeat (www.bbc.com)
A coalition of opposition forces in Myanmar has taken control of the busiest border crossing into Thailand. The military regime which seized power in Myanmar three years ago has suffered another big defeat, this time on the eastern border with Thailand. Troops had suffered weeks of attacks by ethnic Karen insurgents, allied with...