Borders Book Festival 2026
11–14 June, Melrose

Tickets are available for the 2026 Borders Book Festival, which celebrates the arts and literature in Scotland and beyond.

https://bordersbookfestival.org/programme-2026/

#Scottish #literature #bookfestival #Borders #Melrose

Programme 2026 - Borders Book Festival

2026 event programme All the fun of the festival listed day-by-day… Borders Book Festival 2026 Events below are listed by day and time order, click on date headings to show/hide events.

Borders Book Festival
Africa: Botswana Has Not Cut Off Electricity Supply or Closed Borders Amid Anti-Migrant Action in South Africa: [Africa Check] Botswana has not cut off electricity supply or closed borders amid anti-migrant action in South Africa http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSRQF6 #Botswana #SouthAfrica #Migration #ElectricitySupply #Borders
Negotiating #Borders Through Art @bologna 15-17 maggio pv Convegno internazionale, spettacoli, performance, proiezioni, workshop https://site.unibo.it/damslab/it/eventi/negotiating-borders-through-art
Negotiating Borders Through Art

Convegno internazionale, spettacoli, performance, proiezioni, workshop

DAMSLab | La Soffitta
Ein Rausschmiss beim Koalitions-Umtrunk und was Siemens-CEO Busch dem Kanzler rät

Die versprochene Wirtschaftswende stockt, das Wachstum liegt bei mageren 0,6 %. Gordon Repinski hat am Rande des CDU-Wirtschaftstages den Siemens-Vorstandsvorsitzenden Roland Busch getroffen. Im -G…

POLITICO
Keir Starmer braces for his week from hell

Local and national elections pose the biggest test yet to the British prime minister’s battered authority.

POLITICO

Defense officials and lawmakers fear the next two years could provide Russia with the perfect chance to test the West’s commitment to NATO, according to three EU politicians with direct knowledge of the discussions...

#Putin #Trump #Russianaggression #Europe #NATO #EU
#BalticSea #Baltics #Borders #EuropeanDefense #USA
#Transatlanticrelations
#WarinUkraine #Putinswar #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-fears-valdimir-putin-window-opportunity-nato-test/

Europe’s nagging fear: Putin’s ‘window of opportunity’ is now

The next two years could provide Russia with the perfect chance to test the West’s commitment to NATO. But some governments, and the alliance itself, consider the threat overblown.

POLITICO
Europe’s nagging fear: Putin’s ‘window of opportunity’ is now

The next two years could provide Russia with the perfect chance to test the West’s commitment to NATO. But some governments, and the alliance itself, consider the threat overblown.

POLITICO

The 'Edinburgh of the Seven Seas' village on the world's most remote island - and it has a pub

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/edinburgh-seven-seas-village-found-37093411

What was I going to do in a #world that truly has no #borders? Defending #humanity seemed like the #only choice even though humanity will never be there for you. Goes with the territory. Can't let #gravity take hold of you. #passport to the world .

Washington Post: Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site. This link goes to an MSN-syndicated article which has no paywall. “In Arizona, construction crews ran heavy machinery through and destroyed a roughly 60-to-70-foot swath of an intaglio, a more than 200-foot-long ground etching that looks like a fish and is thought to be at least 1,000 years old, said Richard […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/washington-post-trumps-border-wall-expansion-just-bulldozed-an-ancient-tribal-site/