Borders and byways
Lewis BastonBorders and borderlands, and some thoughts that don't quite fit - essays and thoughts to accompany my book Borderlines
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Bellwethers
‘Bellwether’ is an electoral term derived from sheep farming. A wether is a castrated ram, and it is (or was) the practice of shepherds to place a bell round the neck of one of them so that the sound when the wether moved would indicate to...
Memento Mori
I have vivid memories of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does not seem very long ago at all in retrospect, even though five years once seemed an eternity. It takes me back to a time when I was researching what became my book Borderli...
Can the decline of two-party politics be reversed?
This essay first appeared as a guest post on Sam and Lawrence Freedman’s excellent Comment is Freed on 31 January 2025. I’m grateful to them for allowing me to publish it now free of charge. It was an interesting piece to write; the process...
A small town called Oświęcim
Like most people who know that there is a town at Auschwitz, I always wondered what it was like and what sort of people lived there. What must it be like to be confronted with that every day? How can you avoid feeling crushed by the thought...
The borderland metropolis
(Image from Silesian Museum photo via LSB)
Between 1846 and 1916, three great empires – Russia, Austria (Austria-Hungary) and Prussia (Germany) – met at a fork in the river Przemsza between the towns of Sosnowiec and Myslowitz. As they did...
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Disillusioned political analyst, optimistic and curious traveller. Author of 'Borderlines' (Hodder, 2024)
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