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e1f2bc0e-37c7-4418-bef4-d508cb9af32b | Either way, most of the writing in the first section of this book is eloquent enough to speak for itself. | SUBJ |
48342b62-788d-4c39-b6fe-57285ea86152 | “Maybe, but I don’t think they are that stupid. | OBJ |
c3fe9970-68c9-474a-9397-8fefd55d8caf | It caused a full-blown emergency, resulting in the National Guard being deployed to remove the migrants. | OBJ |
0ff1ab19-5059-4fb7-9cda-ea42788f7cee | In bridging those spaces so often demarcated by class, all understood, like McGarvey does, that authenticity is a performance, a tool, a weapon. | SUBJ |
693985db-8f31-4624-b835-997aff5c5a23 | Instead, the town-fathers and citizens whined about the strain on their resources and the disorder caused by unvetted illegal aliens swarming their town. | SUBJ |
d4b47f6e-bd23-4fea-8c81-378150cdf6fb | Inverting that statement would land closer to the mark, but doing so would require a shift of emphasis away from the cultural markers of class and towards the dominant material project of British politics over the past three decades: the creation of security for asset-owning classes at the expense of any other form of ... | SUBJ |
3a157d0b-63d0-4887-9f61-708e2d8c9c4d | The problem was they never came up with specifics about how to sort them out from criminals and deadbeats. | SUBJ |
38cf030c-e97d-4b0e-a424-21bb5a85d485 | With an outstanding record, DeSantis has turned a state that was considered “purple” into a solid “red” state. | SUBJ |
1e60efd5-9253-4d6e-a1cc-2fb252aa9411 | McGarvey acknowledges at the outset that the Scottishness of much of the material is the result of restrictions in place due to the pandemic—his original intent was to travel more widely across the UK. | OBJ |
27de8a15-b23e-4557-959b-e29d315c8d23 | This is $46 million more than President Trump has collected and a shocking $159 million more than the amount raised by former Vice President Mike Pence. | OBJ |
f2f01cef-b77e-406d-85aa-a014b44c709b | Despite this, the people of Pakistan are paying a deadly price for a crisis which is not their fault but has been created in the Global North through centuries of fossil fuel extraction. | SUBJ |
82f706a0-e6f5-4e65-98a8-090d400f6cea | It’s an impressive feat. | SUBJ |
18e9ba1f-cbcd-4a5d-94bd-19e25d8265d7 | Martha’s Vineyard’s complaints are also particularly shameless, claiming a “housing crisis” in a community with thousands of empty rooms. | SUBJ |
bcede141-be07-40eb-b263-8a034230683b | Darren McGarvey has made a career out of excoriating middle-class wankers, then getting those self-same middle-class wankers to pay him for the privilege. | SUBJ |
1ce51d0d-5593-41cd-ab2e-4126e1112fb8 | This is partly because the remit of the Scottish Parliament is constrained, but mainly because middle Scotland likes things the way they are. | SUBJ |
07cba0ea-fcd1-4866-9106-91c1ce022e64 | Crucially, this finance should be delivered in grants, not loans. | SUBJ |
505e73f9-0c52-48a4-9bfd-91412ecbdc98 | What has changed? | OBJ |
36da38d8-94c6-4a08-abbf-aafb0a117e6f | There’s an old argument that all Scots writing prose in English translate themselves to some degree. | OBJ |
a7115f1f-7573-4116-8a65-5ba1aabb6dfb | “Have a look on Google to see what he’s been doing to priests and nuns.” On Tuesday, Silas Malafaia, the radical televangelist who Bolsonaro took to London for the Queen’s funeral, shared his ally’s offer to shelter Nicaragua’s embattled clerics on Twitter, claiming Nicaragua “was supported by Lula”. | OBJ |
a2043b28-98cb-4cb3-b41d-f3c349b649fb | In the United States Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a deal maker who is constantly abandoning conservative legislation to please his friends on the “other side of the aisle.” | SUBJ |
e112cc62-1868-4588-b198-45c8b3624b3a | As for illegal aliens, they parroted activist lies like “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” So too today, the champions of open borders and sanctuary cities are massively ignorant about the conditions in communities swamped by unvetted migrants, let alone the complex diversity of every ethnicity. | SUBJ |
36dfa717-9e5a-4679-8631-69f44593dbdc | On Tuesday Bolsonaro hammered home his message at the UN general assembly, declaring: “I want to announce that Brazil will open its doors to receive the Catholic priests and nuns who have suffered persecution under Nicaragua’s dictatorial regime.” | OBJ |
2b42aba9-e269-41d1-8314-54e9981dd3ce | Instead, the mayor called in the National Guard to ship all those “diverse” victims of callous Republicans to a military base on Cape Cod, an act of NIMBY Pharasism. | SUBJ |
6da4dce7-c924-4259-be2f-21a2b7e4a571 | This shift reflects the assimilation that is happening despite the illiberal identity politics that permeates our culture, especially in schools and universities. | SUBJ |
aa4b5daf-5fd2-4970-96de-f42b9abf720e | And because of that ignorance, they support policies that make things worse for everybody else except the cognitive elites of all ethnicities who congregate in tony enclaves where the only Latinos they know, apart from fellow credentialed elites, make their beds and mow their lawns. | SUBJ |
414166d9-6e51-48a7-b506-4d78150cd151 | Attempts to break out from its constraints and compromises, to add intellectual heft and analysis to the more passive acts of giving voice and witnessing, are to be welcomed. | SUBJ |
45bdc4c1-3c9b-4303-8bbb-c9ef4752bcfb | The flood in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. | OBJ |
c7a95603-4568-44fe-98fb-5d6fdc797183 | Bolsonaro has repeatedly cited Ortega’s anti-clergy offensive in the run-up to Brazil’s 2 October vote, hoping to convince God-fearing voters Lula’s return to power would result in similar persecution. | OBJ |
514ab9c2-dbd7-467e-9224-df449f8863a5 | But such well-founded points sit alongside a reluctance to really consider who holds power: ‘thin-skinned idealists’ are lumped in with corporate elites as equally out of touch. | SUBJ |
8a6d25dc-77ac-4ee2-a4c6-9d457688646f | McGarvey’s issue here isn’t so much one of style (he knows how to use language as a leveller) but rather position: he is constantly moving between the role of writer and translator. | SUBJ |
18fdb24a-5eec-4b05-9ee3-76d46567f29f | This year’s monsoon season started earlier and has lasted longer, as heavy torrents have added relentlessly to the build-up of excess water. | OBJ |
45434991-a012-473b-a294-61d7cae66566 | The weaponisation of Nicaragua is a rehash of Bolsonaro’s 2018 campaign when he used the collapse of Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela to make spurious claims about what might happen were Lula’s Worker’s party (PT) to win power. | SUBJ |
32374e30-fda2-4abf-9543-239406b6d921 | The latest polls suggest support for Lula is actually increasing among Catholic voters, rising from 52% to 53% this week according to the pollster Ipec. | OBJ |
cf645520-21b1-4dcc-ac33-adcde74945ea | “If Jair Bolsonaro leaves power, Brazil won’t become an Argentina or a Venezuela – it’ll go straight to Nicaragua,” congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro tweeted last month. | OBJ |
0afb3222-195b-4325-9eb9-69abaf58ed67 | McGarvey muses, ‘As much as I loathe inequality, blaming rich individuals for it has never made much sense to me.’ We are warned against cathartic ‘billionaire-baiting’ then later told that ‘The Left’s central preoccupation must always be class politics.’ | OBJ |
dbd7863a-a3f1-44c8-b16a-65660ac40373 | The result is a morally preening political rhetoric that worsens problems like uncontrolled illegal immigration by proscribing obvious common-sense solutions such as upgrading border security, including building a wall; keeping those claiming asylum in Mexico; and Title 42, which allowed for increased expulsions. | SUBJ |
b6798127-5106-40e0-8140-e90eb2ad833b | According to established narratives, elitism in Scotland is generally frowned upon and the hardscrabble rise of the ‘lad o pairts’ celebrated. | OBJ |
7c03c841-7582-4ae6-bfce-6ca35e366185 | This means that by the time we get to a final menu of perfectly decent ideas for reform, the material or community basis for the kind of movement that could drive these is no longer present. | SUBJ |
84e4b37a-9c2e-4c5f-b3a5-f81e19cccc8b | International Monetary Fund loans have been used for years to make interest payments to reckless lenders—a further $1.1 billion was released this week—while the debt has continued to grow. | SUBJ |
d90f8912-8556-455b-94b7-8e6c427989c0 | I learned this from the experience of growing up in an environment exactly the opposite of Martha’s Vineyard. | OBJ |
b9ba8ddb-9206-40ed-941e-588e2e5ffd24 | The country faces both the immediate challenges of immense displacement, homelessness, hunger, and the spread of water-borne diseases as well as the longer-term costs of rebuilding and reconstruction. | OBJ |
0196b66a-bac8-411d-8755-3d46812b470f | Perhaps there are people from all walks of life who need to hear about these intuitive treatments for social ills, but they can add up to a form of class politics that is curiously apolitical. | SUBJ |
13b775ad-409e-43d7-a977-b549c9e137c3 | To oppose these destructive policies and the powerful forces in the Deep State, the media, special interest groups, Hollywood, our universities, and labor unions that provide financial and political support, the GOP must have especially strong leaders to fight back. | SUBJ |
66152662-738d-4df5-b0f7-7e7cecfd61a6 | He doesn’t marshal his considerable polemical powers to demonstrate that the rentier-class are. | SUBJ |
16d5be2b-b1ce-4ef9-be8d-ce5365e8abf4 | There are various points in The Social Distance Between Us where the author has anticipated the critic: pointed reflections on his elevation to the big-league make you wary of being seen to demand a working-class writer stay in his lane. | OBJ |
979fcd95-c7d2-490f-b8c1-e65137017bc2 | Republicans are doing well in Florida thanks to his popularity and his ability to effectively communicate with the voters of his state. | OBJ |
feeb9d3f-f23a-42b6-a5c7-afc7a02bfd70 | I think they’re just saying that because they want to legitimise or justify authoritarian behaviour.” However dubious the claim, it is one Bolsonaro and his allies continue to peddle, primarily in the hope of winning over evangelical voters, who represent almost a third of Brazil’s 156 million-strong electorate. | SUBJ |
2ea2ddfc-e164-4f77-8922-547e4866b706 | Even though Warren sued the Governor and wanted to be reinstated, DeSantis refused to retreat. | OBJ |
7f091b1e-fb5b-4ff8-ba6e-6a554fef1534 | Clear-sighted memoir and reportage jostle for space with compelling observations about the resilience of class in contemporary Britain. | OBJ |
48680ef4-bcba-4088-86ca-7d723a91b8ef | McGarvey asks, finally. | SUBJ |
e3c62031-963e-437a-b413-12f4339af2b6 | When attacked by the left or the media, he fights back. | OBJ |
e547245c-6139-41f2-b640-90b11b4f5d2c | Perhaps it’s included for the benefit of listeners to Radio 4’s Book of the Week. | OBJ |
2f7bbc45-f899-451a-b7ba-52ad84b038ac | Pakistan has over 7,000 glaciers, the largest number outside the polar region. | OBJ |
e8fd8a96-942f-4968-b3dd-a8796c30c9d3 | Scotland’s lauded Violence Reduction Unit, recently emulated by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, employed McGarvey as rapper-in-residence. | OBJ |
33cc9e23-3620-4158-927b-d0d0e1be00ee | But I’ve heard things aren’t going well there,” Lula said last year, urging Ortega not to “abandon democracy”. | OBJ |
7fa037e2-eaea-48d4-957e-0ed13c75013f | A significant marker of that sector is a tendency, initiated by Scotland’s former Chief Medical Officer Harry Burns, to view the social consequences of deindustrialisation through the lens of public health policy. | SUBJ |
ec3021a0-5e5d-41ac-84b7-1bfe6ade7913 | You therefore can’t understand the rise of McGarvey without considering an age-old hunger for organic intellectuals in Scotland. | SUBJ |
6f9a9908-1bfc-41c3-ad79-49645bb1fac9 | The debt crisis has been exacerbated by the economic fallout of the pandemic as well as soaring food and energy prices driven by the war in Ukraine and speculation on commodities in financial markets. | OBJ |
0b1e113d-8aba-47d5-87e1-935d38331eb5 | The Biden administration, along with Democratic majorities in Congress, is pursuing the most radical agenda in the history of our nation. | SUBJ |
09278a21-9827-4ee8-889f-87504f886213 | Unless wealthy creditors such as the International Monetary Fund, rich governments, and Western banks and hedge funds take concrete action on large-scale debt cancellation, debt will continue to act as an accelerator of climate chaos. | SUBJ |
0eafcc16-167d-450a-a04a-b81f72ea0350 | These contradictory instructions feel a bit like they’re designed to distract from a weak central argument: that Britain’s problems primarily stem from ‘proximity gaps’ rather than a fundamentally unjust distribution of wealth and power. | SUBJ |
4c6be61f-c39b-4fb9-8fdf-06eccaef5f03 | Together, Bolsonaro and his three sons boast nearly 16 million followers on Twitter and 20 million on Facebook. | OBJ |
ab864875-6271-40ac-addf-cdde351e98e8 | But like most of the virtue-signaling Left, this playground of the economic elite has exposed itself as full of posers unwilling to actually do anything about their vaunted “principles”––a long tradition among Western leftists. | SUBJ |
7f4af6f2-117d-491b-a260-01324baea480 | His politician sons, Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro, have been warning millions of social media followers over the supposed threat of a Nicaragua-style future under Lula. | OBJ |
75454414-222d-4914-b5a6-0581bbe07675 | Such figures have the nous to defy humble origins and tangle with the big ideas of their day. | SUBJ |
2e2876aa-cf23-4242-afc6-f34886a58cbc | Unfortunately, for President Trump, the attacks never ended, and he rarely received the support he needed in the United States Congress. | SUBJ |
a9e24d83-68a9-4de0-b885-df400f112a32 | There are cautionary notes against demonising Tories. | OBJ |
a959f8bd-265c-49d5-97de-3b4c27834b9c | Or they just slander as “xenophobic” and “racist” the mostly working-class people, including Mexican-Americans, blacks, and Asians as well as whites, who have to live with the crime and disorder. | SUBJ |
0ab5c3fd-59e9-408b-a4a1-58e0cea3ecdf | All of these three in turn became skilled communicators, at ease on both the shop and the studio floor; the community and the lecture hall. | OBJ |
38fe992e-7c3d-4a72-9389-1106fa20f026 | Finally, the issue is not immigration per se, as the open-borders people claim with their Emma Lazarus clichés like “we’re all immigrants.” This tactic serves to deflect from the real problem: our broken immigration system that needs reforming. | SUBJ |
2db531db-10c3-4594-8826-28de2975a13c | Then the rich denizens of Martha’s Vineyard started a GoFundMe fundraiser to panhandle ordinary Americans for money to handle this “humanitarian crisis” that’s already been resolved simply by kicking the migrants out of town. | SUBJ |
75dfbe17-4967-4b46-80fd-32f49c18110f | “It’s been 10 years since I last had contact with Nicaragua. | OBJ |
98a40a9a-0747-4950-9c15-d7107e805207 | It was a brilliant way to expose the hypocrisy of the left. | SUBJ |
2384ce3a-0cfc-48ea-832a-f210146ae529 | Of course, I never met one who had actually lived among minorities, especially the poor or working class of any ethnicity. | OBJ |
f3483f74-73f9-469b-9ad7-bab0d59d281c | Much of the credit must be given to Ron DeSantis. | SUBJ |
97611b95-267a-4374-83f6-e3e8186e04ba | His TV documentaries on class and addiction mix biographical candour and provocation with a persistent commitment to exposing the systemic roots of social sickness. | OBJ |
375ce6f7-d753-49df-881b-92ea805f9223 | I know this because I’ve watched it happen over my 44 years of teaching in a Latino-majority university. | OBJ |
3da445f1-3f73-4cb0-813d-09164b71d93a | This may not be the result of sheer malevolence or hatred of the poor. | SUBJ |
7a3509d3-ddfa-4658-a77f-6800790e8af0 | McGarvey is aware that much of his readership is well-off and he is wary of catering to voyeuristic tastes with an excess of ‘harrowing’ or ‘brutal’ output. | OBJ |
2e39c944-b196-47a3-9039-a94ca9bec07e | DeSantis is showing the Republican Party how to lead, and voters, as well as donors, are enthusiastically responding. | SUBJ |
9e8d9e58-37df-4641-8bf6-a6e8b6ccf991 | “There is just zero evidence in his governing that he would ever behave like dictators in Nicaragua and Venezuela. | OBJ |
615a18de-fac7-4a9f-b708-3f1f0af6c025 | It is best understood as a book packaged for export, stamped with the lived experience of working-class people in the West of Scotland but actually offering up many of the core ideas that dominate mainstream Scottish politics. | SUBJ |
ed2f9f9b-2d6a-4964-ac7c-f2b357fa4ed9 | I don’t know what’s happening in Nicaragua. | OBJ |
752f5b81-686b-41d4-b197-24d92337aa8a | What’s puzzling about this is the fact that McGarvey himself is very much at home within Scotland’s roomy social sector. | SUBJ |
725bd335-498a-4983-8484-60b16b463b6c | This is not a matter of aid or charity, but of compensation and reparations for centuries of fossil fuel extraction and carbon emissions of rich governments and corporations. | SUBJ |
bafa3f56-e9c8-4e9c-a3e7-d207215f1fea | “Family unification” policies should stop. | SUBJ |
165f8e86-67d0-4af7-b0dd-c78222994c8e | Entire towns, vital infrastructure, homes, farmlands, and crops are being washed away. | OBJ |
8640339d-6ff5-4c85-860e-836cd1ebb222 | This dangerous policy comes cheap for both cohorts, since the impact of millions of illegal aliens will not be felt by the cognitive and economic elites who promote unfettered immigration. | SUBJ |
67c1d310-c447-4312-bdb3-f308078aa393 | Without urgent action to tackle the debt crisis, Pakistan will continue to take on more debt to meet the huge economic costs of both the debt crisis and the damage created by the floods, while still making repayments to its wealthy creditors. | SUBJ |
b49f14e9-dc10-4ac8-a1c1-33545942987c | The most effective political leader in the country today is Florida’s Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis. | SUBJ |
8fb0a277-0d3f-49fb-96ed-7ffde79c42a0 | Then maybe they’ll start rethinking their disastrous immigration policies. | SUBJ |
65a94f7d-6a89-4aba-beec-932f4242c565 | They talk, like D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, about a “growing humanitarian crisis” as if it were something new rather than a problem that border-states have been dealing with for decades. | SUBJ |
10a268ea-7c68-4aeb-a1f5-495f532b9af2 | That fact is what makes the relocation programs of border-state governors like DeSantis, Arizona’s Doug Ducey, and Texas’s Greg Abbot so politically brilliant–-now “sanctuary” mayors and governors and their citizens can experience first-hand the costs of their lofty principles they’ve been flaunting on the cheap. | SUBJ |
30770c00-b493-443c-a656-60d1246d7f3a | Texas border-town Del Rio has had 15,000 enter in just one day. | OBJ |
258da86b-8aba-4b39-9df1-986931341f99 | But Lula’s evangelical vote share this week rose from 31% to 32%. | OBJ |
08f35e0e-a76a-4b61-8be3-0fc022031319 | There’s polemic directed at the ‘The Left,’ particularly its approach to trying to leverage crisis amongst communities that have seen constant waves of disruption and chaos. | OBJ |
930c956b-fceb-4cc8-ab3e-daf45ec94bfa | There are two ‘Acts’ to this book, but it reads like two separate works: the first presents crumbling social systems from the perspectives of working-class people, the second offers take-downs of various factions within British politics. | SUBJ |
2e0e10cc-4bb9-4805-9985-3b9d0198b134 | But the hypocrisy of the Left and progressives is nothing new. | SUBJ |
e719b9b1-0d45-4a21-bf8c-eafe8dafd152 | That debt should be cancelled. | SUBJ |
a6799710-aae4-4a5a-9b4f-a29a78a479e4 | More than three decades later such scare tactics have been turbo-charged by social media. | SUBJ |
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