Well, wouldn't you know it? I've done it again. I picked up and read a book. And so now you have to listen to me talk for the next little while. Minus Hussein and Milo, neither of whom reads, mostly because Hussein only reads manga. And Milo has the attention span of what you guys keep telling me I should replace him

with. Usually it's a tropical fish, a small dog, a shop, I think someone said. What else was

the most recent one? It was a nice plate of meat and cheeses, which actually since we started

recording at the studio, is an element

of Trash Future, the podcast about how the slogan is not something I say anymore on a

regular basis, because I'm going to keep it as a treat for everyone.

It's not not a regular feature anymore, the luxury food, because the studio is not my house,

and my house is close to the nice nice

shops will say and the studio is not it's got a co-op nearby so usually we might have a

couple of beers which explains why it's so coherent all the time anyway let's talk let's talk

books why not because it's Riley's comedy book club.

Hello and welcome. I'm the Riley from the title that I just said. And this is my book club.

So we are this month, we've read violent bordersugees and the Right to Move, which is Out on Verso.

It is by Reese Jones, who is a geographer at the University of Hawaii.

I strongly recommend you pick it up.

I think the e-book is either it was for a while pretty heavily discounted.

It's really worth a read. It's not super long. It's a sort of forensic and historical discussion

of the growth of the border regime globally. We start looking, well, I mean, we look especially at the European Union and the States,

we sort of little delves into Australia, into even like the developing worlds, the relationship

between Bangladesh and India and, you know, Myanmar and Bangladesh and so on and so forth.

So, yeah, it's very good.

What struck me about it was that, like, a lot of, like, more sort of academic socialist literature. It's really, really, really good at

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