'Borderland' now just £8 at Waterstones and Amazon. My royalty goes to Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) 🧡 Kent Refugees Action Network so please buy it: as endorsed by Gareth E. Rees Danny Dorling News Alastair Bonnett, Patrick Wright et al, it's about the edge of England, the death of EU & the end of the world.

On the morning of the 8th, police officers opened fire with CS gas grenades on a boat of exiles people who were trying to reach the United Kingdom, setting it ablaze. The police chased exiles with ATV vehicles and broke the finger of an 18 year old with a baton round #Calais

A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect records both KEEKLEGS and KITES LEGS as names given to the orchid Orchis Mascula.
(image from wikipedia)

Only city-wide rent controls can end the cycle of insecurity trapping London's 3 million renters.

Labour needs to commit to devolve power over rents to the Mayor of London.

📢 Read what we had to say in The Standard: standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

Beyond the rings of new-build Fisher Price palaces that are garroting Ashford is a hinterland of shit and litter and something that used to be rural Kent

Reading Will Burns not too many writers get Southern England and rurality spot on, but these do

Peabody when will you talk to the residents about refurbishing the Lesnes estate and filling up empty homes? insidehousing openDemocracy Real Media Reel News 

News Shopper Murky Depths

Novara Media Corporate Watch

New paper out from Dr Bonnie Buyuklieva, Thomas Oléron Evans, Nick Bailey and myself where we look at where (socially and spatially) the biggest challenges for transitioning the UK's building stock to net-zero exist - frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… - work funded & facilitated by Ordnance Survey

Borderland Manchester University Press written 3-4 years ago, came out 2022 but I am afraid all the issues it raises about exclusionary nationalism still apply. Discussion of the bordering that maintains the Garden of England as sacrosanct landscape, 20 May 1800 Urban Salon InvisibleCities

Our front page tomorrow The Independent

‘The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force Israel to end its war. It has to stop.’

#TomorrowsPapersToday

Spotted Wood End / Bell Green Coventry in BBC This Town: I recall a Cov colleague taking students there for a bit of poverty porn after the '92 riots and kids threw fireworks and rocks at the Uni minibus, which I felt was appropriate and quite justified.

Margetta last night.

Shocking to hear that the number of these obnoxious screens is set to TRIPLE over the next decade 😱 Blocking pavements, degrading public space, attracting anti-social behaviour - these ads have no place on our streets.
marketing-beat.co.uk/2024/03/27/bt-…

I was able to legitimately inflict The Fall on my students King's Geography in a lecture on Manchester music in Urban Cultural Geography. They didn't look impressed but I was able to tell them that 40 years ago this is precisely what students King's College London wanted. Only £1.60 too

Anti-Stalinist Communist, intellectual figure of May 68, Henri Lefebvre is re-read today as an ecosocialist thinker. His political quest for a balance between radicalism and mass movement is as relevant today as his thought, which is resistant to dogmatism.

37 HEIs facing significant redundancies at moment qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Off to Margate tmrw to hear Gareth E. Rees on his new book. Lovely stuff on folk memories of climate change and a nice Bowie joke on page 32 to boot.

Time for solidarity, and also for some govt action else big swathes of UK losing provision in key subjects: many HE providers now in race to bottom, shedding jobs in 'marginal' subjects whilst hoping to pile non existent students into business studies, psychology, criminology

I just opened a book to find a letter from a journal inside reminding me I was supposed to review it. How late do you think a review can be before a journal considers it too late? Is 15 years late acceptable? 🫤

This morning's reading. A real pot porri of a book but some nice material to put alongside accounts from Isaac Rose