The emperor’s new wall
Open Democracy
President Donald Trump will continue trying to fund his border wall. If he succeeds, the human cost will make the final price tag much higher than $5.7 billion.
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The Destructive Nihilism of Trump and the GOP
The New Republic
It’s long been clear that President Donald Trump won’t get anything resembling the border wall that he promised his supporters on the campaign trail. The government-funding deal struck between Democratic and Republican lawmakers earlier this week only confirms it.
10 things you need to know today: February 13, 2019
The Week
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President Trump on Tuesday said he was "not happy" about the tentative deal lawmakers negotiated to avoid another government shutdown. While sources reportedly told CNN Trump intends to sign the deal...
10 things you need to know today: February 12, 2019
The Week
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Republican and Democratic congressional negotiators late Monday agreed in principle to a border security deal that could avoid another partial government shutdown. With a Friday deadline looming...
Shilpa T-Hyland on making a Miss Julie for the #MeToo generation
Living by the Sword
If an exciting new generation of young women theatre directors is beginning to emerge in Scotland, then Shilpa T-Hyland seems likely to play a leading role in that movement. She is the first-ever winner of the Cross Trust Young Director Award...
“The atmosphere’s brilliant” - freeride ski champ Katie Small on the appeal of the Scottish Freedom Series
Living by the Sword
By my count the Scottish Freedom Series turns five this year, so on Saturday, as the nation’s best backcountry skiers and snowboarders prepare to take turns launching themselves down a gnarly slab of unpisted mountainside somewhere on the north shore of Loch Tay for the 2019 Lawers of Gravity event...
Book review: The Freedom Artist, by Ben Okri
Living by the Sword
Dystopian fiction is in fashion. John Lanchester has just published The Wall, a post-Brexit dystopia, it seems. Now Ben Okri offers The Freedom Artist, a meditation on the threat to freedom represented by the emergence of what is already called “a post-truth society.” So...
Book review: Time Song - Searching for Doggerland, by Julia Blackburn
Living by the Sword
This is not a book about Brexit. However, given that it concerns itself with the once-inhabited landscape that for many millennia linked the east coast of England to the west coast of continental Europe ...
Scotland is poorer for the passing of Dr Adam Watson, but his wonderful writing lives on
Living by the Sword
Scotland’s mountain-going community was united in sadness at the end of last month, following the death of the great ecologist and mountaineer Dr Adam Watson, who passed away after a short illness at the age of 89.
When Jews Ruled the Fencing World
Tablet
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the women’s fencing medal ceremony witnessed three medal winners with Jewish backgrounds. Ilona Elek, a Hungarian, won the gold medal. Helene Mayer, a German, won the silver.
Book review: Golden Child, by Claire Adam
Living by the Sword
Golden Child is the story of a family from Trinidad – the native land of author Clare Adam, who left her home country to be educated in the US and now lives in London. The Deyalsingh family consists of 13-year-old twins Paul and Peter and their parents Clyde and Joy.
Book review: The Redeemed, by Tim Pears
Living by the Sword
With The Redeemed Tim Pears brings his remarkable West Country trilogy to a triumphant conclusion. All the novels have been daring, this last perhaps most of all, for it strikes off in new unexpected directions...
Challenge International des Hauts-de-Seine 2019
Escrime Info
L'édition 2019 du Challenge international des Hauts-de-Seine – Circuit Elite Bourg-la-Reine aura lieu les 16 et 17 février 2019 au gymnase des Bas Coquarts.
Elle réunira les meilleurs fleurettistes français, hommes et femmes, et de grands noms de l’escrime mondiale.
A salute to George Stewart, Scotland’s oldest skier
Living by the Sword
We are all, apparently, in spite of the stresses of Brexit and the proliferation of Krispy Kreme outlets, living longer than ever before. According to the Office for National Statistics, by the year 2066...
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