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8745d4da-91c9-4538-acee-b0e7b1c413fd	Who will redistribute the hoarded wealth that has exploded beyond all reason in the author’s lifetime?
43de04ad-d0ac-4852-9b4e-cf0bca066188	What we don’t need is the indiscriminate influxes that include criminals, drug-traffickers, deadbeats, and terrorists.
e00b66ee-720a-47e3-a0fb-0e2445b89af6	The Social Distance Between Us shows every sign of emulating the critical and popular success of Poverty Safari.
0b95d635-f821-45dd-9f33-b05d63629195	History shows that McCarthy and McConnell, like so many Republican leaders, collapse after demands from the left.
5ba3117b-3ef9-4815-acb4-a263d3c816bc	So while it’s not hard to reach a banal point of agreement that Tory politicians are not inherently evil, this should not distract from the extreme ideological assumption that governs Britain and is shared by many: exploitation is, in fact, virtuous.
9b8e52e6-7b46-4d1f-86f7-1dbd05bc1f0e	We can never forget that when the pressure was on in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, protests in the U.S. Capitol, McCarthy was recorded on a phone call agreeing that President Trump should resign and criticizing his actions on that day.
b77ca544-f648-4826-a5b0-5e415b085bcf	Over the past few decades, very few real fighters have been in positions of power in the Republican Party.
118029dd-02c0-4e7f-b36c-9899b44b073d	I just find it a ridiculous argument,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard University Latin America specialist and the author of How Democracies Die.
4d4ca193-1e45-40bc-90c4-e43eec20f78c	Meanwhile, the radical political project of marketising every conceivable aspect of life in contemporary Britain continues.
54c95e90-9c05-49ff-a38b-38694106a9c2	Their posh communities don’t have to deal with the drug and sex trafficking, overdoses, crime, and daily disorder.
b271fa02-d780-4800-933b-3fbc172800be	It’s only when you have fifty illegal aliens end up in a very wealthy, rich sanctuary enclave that he decides to scramble.” Due to his successful policies in Florida, donations are flowing into this campaign coffers.
13ea05f2-b22e-4ebe-ac38-e7d8ee1fab10	DeSantis believes in freedom and is constantly fighting the “woke” left on a range of issues.
27000e85-0554-4e50-a0a8-197b5fd14c58	While salvos are fired at the Scottish Government too, there is nothing in this book that would be out of place in Holyrood Magazine, the in-house journal of the Scottish political establishment, which has featured the author on its front cover.
74506e44-6d22-4f19-aee3-1b5c3f566284	Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan illegal aliens to the tony enclave, reasoning that if its citizens are serious about their compassion for migrants and their love of diversity, they’d jump at the chance to prove it by actually spending some money on them.
8369f798-629d-409c-9590-453bc9007e49	Lax standards for illegals who were on the path to citizenship, such a allowing offenses like DUIs or other misdemeanors, didn’t bespeak a serious effort to thoroughly vet preconditions for citizenship.
b016acca-7d46-4c96-9220-3155c79d65c9	This is, primarily, a book about individuals.
5f1815ce-34c6-4012-a8af-5860061ace31	Even with multiple warnings from experts and scientists to leave fossil fuels in the ground, new gas and oil projects continue to be approved in countries like the UK and the US, with fatal consequences for places like Pakistan that are most exposed to the dangers of the climate emergency.
857b5178-79aa-44bd-b8f6-666b567dd6a6	Some of them talked a lot about racism and bigotry, or waxed lyrical about the poor.
b95e92e7-620e-46c8-9b42-f9761e2cfafc	The logic that has informed The Social Distance Between Us sees previously political problems become medicalised: ‘Social connection strengthens the immune system, helps us to recover from illness faster and can even lengthen our lifespans.’
ff376756-2e3c-46b8-8e09-a4bd20d50baa	Instead of hiring legions of IRS auditors, that money should go to hiring more border-patrol agents.
f941b093-3b4f-46db-9f79-f6e60cfdc85f	This is what is in noticeably short supply among the ranks of GOP politicians, resolute leaders with a backbone.
66c2cceb-cdf9-422d-a596-72a00654b8aa	Pakistan needs its debt repayments suspended with immediate effect to ensure that much needed resources are not sent out of the country to repay wealthy lenders at this crucial time.
d143ee87-7c80-420e-a0a0-ed7a8e92ecc9	“Don’t forget, he’s a friend of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega,” Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator for Rio, wrote of Lula.
d205cd1b-8a9d-44fa-a87e-7f6d8f9416ef	Evangelicals still prefer Bolsonaro, with 48% of them supporting his presidential bid.
8ab3c62a-c138-4a31-baf6-62b638902682	In the U.S. House of Representatives, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is more conservative than McConnell, but he is not as aggressive as needed to combat the horrific agenda of the Democratic Party.
9ddb1476-5463-402d-8956-e36f0d8a2dd4	And all they knew about Mexicans was that they were noble farmworkers abused by corporate agriculture, forced to slave away on land stolen from their ancestors by greedy gringos.
340a4d75-2600-4ae2-8fd0-ccbcc19bad29	Rich countries promised finance to help lower-income countries deal with the impacts of climate change as a recognition of its responsibility for historic carbon emissions.
63812ca2-6f5a-4a2a-8bb7-7bd50f92361c	He said, “I also was a little bit perplexed when I heard that the president is scrambling to get his Cabinet together to try to address the fact that you have governors who are helping to relocate illegal aliens to sanctuary cities.
093e795c-d010-40db-8024-eb7e5183b1b5	What if the poor aren’t the problem?
678fa551-1ad8-4727-a200-e84eef6bfb82	DeSantis is on course to win a strong re-election after barely defeating an extreme leftist four years ago.
5d74327f-beaa-4915-90c6-c19ffce9963e	Though older generations of working-class Scots radicals coalesced around social movements, communities and still living traditions of working class self-reliance and mutual aid, McGarvey cuts a lone figure.
9f338e5f-c357-4b08-b533-fe7474c1ddc1	Often, his news conferences are sparring sessions with progressive reporters who are editorializing and not acting like objective journalists.
5c333ea3-a721-479f-900a-2a08ba2cd335	The proceeds, however, will not go to the expelled migrants, but to “building up a reserve to assist situations like this in the future.”
3dc6f90d-958b-43ae-8539-fd8620d93c97	Early chapters on the degradations of labour in call centres, or the psychological abuse inflicted on welfare claimants, give way to general, broadly familiar observations about the rise of Thatcherism and New Labour.
c8cd5091-8d0a-401f-a1fc-8482f97fae92	Worsening global economic conditions had already pushed Pakistan to the brink of economic collapse.
025a2178-cc26-474d-aa46-2c0a42286b88	The Social Distance Between Us also slams the growth of the ‘poverty industry’—the range of initiatives that emerged following deindustrialisation to manage social problems in working-class communities.
e41bbf7b-bcea-419e-9d63-013018b04a75	While the author attends to the power of community and connection half way through, these do not go on to become the building blocks of the confusing political manifesto that closes the book.
e2827c69-bd5e-4c47-b67c-aa1786f823b1	These factors make Pakistan the eighth most climate vulnerable country in the world—and yet it is responsible for less than one percent of global carbon emissions.
a0eb5fb6-54cb-4f79-bd8a-f17745fb02b8	Warming global temperatures are making them melt faster and earlier, creating glacial lakes and adding vast amounts of water to rivers and streams.
4d95f4ff-b85a-4018-8f9a-5e4341cb4058	This means first securing the border, as Donald Trump had made a good start at doing.
a94559de-b137-4304-83d4-823b914ed8e6	Private lenders have long used these shamelessly predatory actions to profiteer at every turn.
162cd32e-0f63-4d11-b2c2-ef3801453422	But it is the result of individuals who believe that the pursuit of rational self-interest offers by far the greatest boon for the rest of society.
04577eb0-b2da-4335-b662-23218d2e983f	The author would go on to bag an Orwell Prize.
53d51215-dc44-4c64-bf3b-01ca43d69fac	Making policy happen at Holyrood is framed as a targeted, evidence-based, consensus-driven process, that often does incorporate lived experience and a wider range of voices than at Westminster.
e488b839-3c96-467a-8a0c-a8ad3e88b83a	According to DeSantis, Biden did not “scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had Americans that were victimized by criminal aliens that he let across the border.
44a3a130-3774-4ec1-a267-a90e918ae982	Those numbers are a real “humanitarian crisis.” There are many reasons for the bipartisan de facto open-borders policy.
73805bd5-3ced-4002-abb9-030f71122eac	Overall, the leftist boasts a 16-point lead over Bolsonaro with less than two weeks until the election.
a6afdb82-49b8-4541-8dd3-ce6ef0c49c60	In late-twentieth-century Scotland figures like Jimmy Reid, Jim Sillars, and Tommy Sheridan would all claim the inheritance of a proud, defiant, masculine, working-class politics.
f003e5c6-6826-4f92-be3e-a24fd1b58a3e	Ortega’s re-election followed a six-month crackdown on Nicaragua’s opposition which saw all of the former rebel’s main challengers detained or forced into exile.
bb329cca-2a24-4dc1-9693-8f0b4e7f3abd	If they are repaid in full, they are set to rake in huge profits.
5beb5acc-7d89-400b-a021-39adbbba0713	Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s minister for climate change, issued a stark warning that Pakistan is ‘at the ground zero’ of ‘flash foods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, heatwaves and now the monster monsoon of the decade.’
855968e7-ec6c-4be2-bfda-8df8b73df8a7	Who, you wonder, is supposed to be surprised at the combination of authenticity and articulacy?
e5321308-7bad-4494-936c-1d72fdd46e37	More challenging follow-up questions go unasked.
17dfe341-a891-4c59-9aed-566612516be0	These are just a few of Donald Trump’s policies that substantially reduced illegal border-crossings that under the Biden administration have swelled to 4.9 million, according to FAIR.
1db706b2-6847-4d14-989a-1af2da0724b6	The Democrats’ decades-long dream of creating a “permanent majority” coalition of college-educated whites and minorities requires letting in more and more migrants, legal or not, to increase the number of dependents on government largesse.
9f63b7e3-2ed6-4f0d-91e4-19ecc96941c9	Pakistan is not an isolated case: 54 countries are currently in debt crisis, and many of these countries are also on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
0b0ed991-b18b-4fff-a381-d899411e46fd	Pakistan was already in a debt crisis before the flash floods unleashed widespread destruction—with $12.5 billion of debt repayments due this year alone.
c73d9d4d-9b03-49e5-834f-e52242b3a772	Whether it’s rate of intermarriage, tastes in fashion, and now political preferences, students of Latino heritage are not as culturally distinct as they were when I was growing up.
5f9062a0-6ef3-4ee5-ae67-3719727c0666	Amazingly, he was calling for President Trump’s resignation even though he clearly urged his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” during their protest.
0c819317-aa6e-4a59-95c2-c1b1676cc5db	With his successful policies, people are flocking to Florida to participate in their booming economy.
70854ef6-76aa-4926-89fe-561ee45a8df8	Pakistan causes less than 1% of global carbon emissions, but a third of it is now underwater – and rebuilding is going to be hamstrung by its $12.5 billion in debt repayments due this year alone.
4bb1c22f-d905-4575-9bc6-07f98f9f1d58	Its aim, based on rhetoric popularised by Burns, is to treat the cycle of violent crime as though it were a disease.
33c5ef7b-c7fe-4624-9b73-b510786b867a	Exceptions to this rule were tremendous leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump who were accomplished and effective in their roles.
6d5cf639-6b90-4b5e-b2d3-e4cae0213b49	In day-to-day life, as explored in one of the book’s most compelling passages, the capacity to modulate vocal chords and swap out vocabulary for different contexts is a matter of great social significance here; this can come across on the page too.
b0109f48-836d-4baf-b8dd-9c633e1fd2bb	For now, border-state governors like Ron De Santis and Greg Abbot have done the country a great service by exposing the hypocrisy of open-borders Democrats, as well as giving their constituents some first-hand experience of the dangers and disorder of an unfettered immigration they haven’t had to experience first-hand.
36497f8b-aa77-4366-9491-f2b64f099a21	Over the years the promoters and leadership of leftist movements have been mainly middle-class and affluent, like today’s cognitive elite “woke,” “parlor pinks” and “limousine liberals” who espouse the principles that they can afford and that fit their upscale life-styles, making them superior to Middle America’s hoi polloi.
79f3c246-5eb5-42c6-aa22-ed6968baa1dc	The 2013 bipartisan “Gang of Eight” Republican champions of a “path to citizenship,” then, were not entirely wrong about the conservative inclinations of Latinos.
ce042ff4-5185-4f6b-9bbf-2e2e684b936b	Throughout America, our major urban areas have been destroyed by dangerous left-wing policies enacted by Democratic Mayors.
d0956ba7-ba3d-45f4-ac90-1a076e6d6bce	And most important, the vetting process must not just sift out the unwanted, but identify those who can contribute to the well-being and success of this country.
d4c6663a-3875-4099-8719-f6c8e3f2e43a	‘It is only because Conservative politicians are unaffected by the consequences of their policies […] that they persist with their bombardment of the poor and the vulnerable.’
14b65c64-453f-4069-aa4e-bd507d710046	So far the scaremongering appears to be failing, however, with Lula launching a charm offensive to reassure Brazilian Christians.
744a54b7-ad6f-4c4d-8b5f-dbce087b9352	With a third of the land under water, 33 million people affected, and the death toll over a thousand and rising, the human and economic cost is set to be astronomical.
bc9c0c8c-69d5-46f7-9b79-3f8ddd87f6e9	Most were working class or poor, including the white Dust Bowl migrants––the vast majority of whom showed no signs of enjoying “white privilege.”
a5e3ca74-d0b9-437d-9bf7-10f4d67848be	Currently the rate of illegal entries in El Paso has been 1300 a day, while Yuma, Arizona this year has seen its population of about 100,000 more than double to 250,000.
d44d778c-68c3-4b21-8886-2ed6feedfe3f	You didn’t see him scramble to get his Cabinet together when we hit record fentanyl deaths, which, that fentanyl is coming across his open border.
97afd40d-d5bc-4ac8-8bdb-919a8cf7cef3	The biggest insult, though, of this hypocrisy is the fundamental ignorance that underlies it.
74020065-0378-4b54-9da6-7a3b603d4133	When Hillsborough County District Attorney Andrew Warren claimed he would not enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban, and refuse to prosecute certain crimes, while supporting gender transition treatments for minors, the Governor removed him from his office.
27255909-5b2c-4cb7-9ef4-c7b3f5a4df40	All they had were leftist clichés and Dickensian melodramas.
ffd25e37-3178-4d56-8967-342e935c65d4	According to DeSantis, “Prosecutors have a duty to enforce the law, not pick and choose which laws they agree with.”
bbe27add-1a14-45fc-9a72-e6877a1834f7	The two crises of climate and debt are inextricably connected.
ab1b39ab-f8aa-4295-b59c-b90e0626a63a	The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain, McGarvey’s difficult second volume, contains some of those winning ingredients.
dedfb154-90d3-4939-9720-85c3d45b730a	Pakistan’s Floods Show the Climate Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis
143f8a96-f047-4311-bc53-771b6cb4cad1	A veteran of many rap battles, you can’t review McGarvey without anticipating a counter-strike.
fac12946-98a4-4c48-b1a7-6a4ce4012b98	Now, he didn’t scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had millions of people illegally pouring across the southern border.”
08b3e5ba-20b6-4c55-8ba7-ff0c8e1018b5	For a writer with their ear to the ground in Scotland, the reality of a largely middle-class, anglicised readership is always problematic.
829e7072-98b0-418f-9498-8bba9887f8fe	However, the long-standing holy trinity of cheap energy, cheap food, and cheap money that has kept the lid on a long-simmering social crisis across Britain is about to expire.
19238042-9711-4914-886c-faed50cbbe0e	Lula has been facing groundless allegations that he would attack Christianity since the first of his six presidential campaigns in 1989.
540d7b8a-7a10-4a4f-b9fe-a1f61f9a78dc	DeSantis also observed that Biden paid more attention to what he and Texas Governor Greg Abbott did instead of the worsening crisis caused by the open border.
bf116bda-3fe1-47ba-82a4-6b843abc76a1	More than 4,000km and an ideological abyss separate the capitals of Nicaragua and Brazil, where an acrimonious race for the presidency is under way.
10f66e07-bbbc-41e1-8e47-0b014ca536ef	The rise of these interventionist projects, argues McGarvey, has created a kind of inverted culture of dependency, in which many organisations employing university-educated workers on good salaries require the ‘fuel’ of impoverished people to justify their existence.
4e5cdd06-d84e-4bfa-a5c2-df02d630e2b8	“Do these guys really believe that, having lived in Brazil for eight years under Lula, that Lula would suddenly turn Brazil into Nicaragua?” Levitsky wondered.
933a16a7-16ff-4bb8-b5c6-032bb2780aee	Given all of these impending shocks, and the desperate need to defend the conditions for life everywhere against endlessly expanding markets, is it really such an indulgence to demand surgery instead of treatment?
36f81f9e-8bcc-4179-9fb8-fd2166fa10f6	One silver lining of this mess is the growing number of Latinos who are breaking away from the Democrat plantation.
ad50208c-3ad2-4470-89ef-73b0081c77d6	But the target of $100 billion a year of climate finance by 2020 has never been reached, nor is it anywhere near the trillions of dollars needed to meet the scale of the crisis.
07b49741-c736-4f13-802d-71f89a8376ae	This is not the type of leadership the Republican Party or the country needs during this critical juncture.
97b11e07-4819-45a1-b478-45d41c8e2c0c	This did not display much of a caring attitude from leftists who love to tout that they support “sanctuary cities.”
78e5ecd4-fe10-42fb-9612-2dfa670f2ada	But the Central American country has found itself at the centre of Brazil’s election debate as its far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro seeks to weaponise Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian crackdown on the Catholic church to attack his leftist challenger, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
15c6e9d2-0c23-4983-83c5-381bc6fe2a56	After the migrants arrived in the progressive playground, community leaders were outraged.
1d000667-75ab-4958-b8b8-ab961f2895b7	Both Scotland’s First Minister and the nation’s most prominent billionaire, at odds on so many issues, agreed on the book’s merits.
fdfca429-9818-4153-a646-1c7e8f38dde2	This anxiety speaks to two decades of Scotland being run by moderate centre-left devolved governments still shaped by New Labour’s founding assumptions and influenced by the rise of the ‘professional managerial class,’ a group increasingly framed as at the source of the nation’s ills by certain quarters of the Scottish left.

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Who will redistribute the hoarded wealth that has exploded beyond all reason in the author’s lifetime?

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What we don’t need is the indiscriminate influxes that include criminals, drug-traffickers, deadbeats, and terrorists.

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The Social Distance Between Us shows every sign of emulating the critical and popular success of Poverty Safari.

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History shows that McCarthy and McConnell, like so many Republican leaders, collapse after demands from the left.

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So while it’s not hard to reach a banal point of agreement that Tory politicians are not inherently evil, this should not distract from the extreme ideological assumption that governs Britain and is shared by many: exploitation is, in fact, virtuous.

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We can never forget that when the pressure was on in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, protests in the U.S. Capitol, McCarthy was recorded on a phone call agreeing that President Trump should resign and criticizing his actions on that day.

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Over the past few decades, very few real fighters have been in positions of power in the Republican Party.

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I just find it a ridiculous argument,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard University Latin America specialist and the author of How Democracies Die.

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Meanwhile, the radical political project of marketising every conceivable aspect of life in contemporary Britain continues.

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Their posh communities don’t have to deal with the drug and sex trafficking, overdoses, crime, and daily disorder.

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It’s only when you have fifty illegal aliens end up in a very wealthy, rich sanctuary enclave that he decides to scramble.” Due to his successful policies in Florida, donations are flowing into this campaign coffers.

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DeSantis believes in freedom and is constantly fighting the “woke” left on a range of issues.

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While salvos are fired at the Scottish Government too, there is nothing in this book that would be out of place in Holyrood Magazine, the in-house journal of the Scottish political establishment, which has featured the author on its front cover.

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Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan illegal aliens to the tony enclave, reasoning that if its citizens are serious about their compassion for migrants and their love of diversity, they’d jump at the chance to prove it by actually spending some money on them.

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Lax standards for illegals who were on the path to citizenship, such a allowing offenses like DUIs or other misdemeanors, didn’t bespeak a serious effort to thoroughly vet preconditions for citizenship.

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This is, primarily, a book about individuals.

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Even with multiple warnings from experts and scientists to leave fossil fuels in the ground, new gas and oil projects continue to be approved in countries like the UK and the US, with fatal consequences for places like Pakistan that are most exposed to the dangers of the climate emergency.

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Some of them talked a lot about racism and bigotry, or waxed lyrical about the poor.

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The logic that has informed The Social Distance Between Us sees previously political problems become medicalised: ‘Social connection strengthens the immune system, helps us to recover from illness faster and can even lengthen our lifespans.’

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Instead of hiring legions of IRS auditors, that money should go to hiring more border-patrol agents.

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This is what is in noticeably short supply among the ranks of GOP politicians, resolute leaders with a backbone.

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Pakistan needs its debt repayments suspended with immediate effect to ensure that much needed resources are not sent out of the country to repay wealthy lenders at this crucial time.

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“Don’t forget, he’s a friend of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega,” Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator for Rio, wrote of Lula.

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Evangelicals still prefer Bolsonaro, with 48% of them supporting his presidential bid.

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In the U.S. House of Representatives, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is more conservative than McConnell, but he is not as aggressive as needed to combat the horrific agenda of the Democratic Party.

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And all they knew about Mexicans was that they were noble farmworkers abused by corporate agriculture, forced to slave away on land stolen from their ancestors by greedy gringos.

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Rich countries promised finance to help lower-income countries deal with the impacts of climate change as a recognition of its responsibility for historic carbon emissions.

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He said, “I also was a little bit perplexed when I heard that the president is scrambling to get his Cabinet together to try to address the fact that you have governors who are helping to relocate illegal aliens to sanctuary cities.

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What if the poor aren’t the problem?

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DeSantis is on course to win a strong re-election after barely defeating an extreme leftist four years ago.

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Though older generations of working-class Scots radicals coalesced around social movements, communities and still living traditions of working class self-reliance and mutual aid, McGarvey cuts a lone figure.

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Often, his news conferences are sparring sessions with progressive reporters who are editorializing and not acting like objective journalists.

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The proceeds, however, will not go to the expelled migrants, but to “building up a reserve to assist situations like this in the future.”

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Early chapters on the degradations of labour in call centres, or the psychological abuse inflicted on welfare claimants, give way to general, broadly familiar observations about the rise of Thatcherism and New Labour.

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Worsening global economic conditions had already pushed Pakistan to the brink of economic collapse.

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The Social Distance Between Us also slams the growth of the ‘poverty industry’—the range of initiatives that emerged following deindustrialisation to manage social problems in working-class communities.

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While the author attends to the power of community and connection half way through, these do not go on to become the building blocks of the confusing political manifesto that closes the book.

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These factors make Pakistan the eighth most climate vulnerable country in the world—and yet it is responsible for less than one percent of global carbon emissions.

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Warming global temperatures are making them melt faster and earlier, creating glacial lakes and adding vast amounts of water to rivers and streams.

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This means first securing the border, as Donald Trump had made a good start at doing.

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Private lenders have long used these shamelessly predatory actions to profiteer at every turn.

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But it is the result of individuals who believe that the pursuit of rational self-interest offers by far the greatest boon for the rest of society.

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The author would go on to bag an Orwell Prize.

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Making policy happen at Holyrood is framed as a targeted, evidence-based, consensus-driven process, that often does incorporate lived experience and a wider range of voices than at Westminster.

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According to DeSantis, Biden did not “scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had Americans that were victimized by criminal aliens that he let across the border.

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Those numbers are a real “humanitarian crisis.” There are many reasons for the bipartisan de facto open-borders policy.

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Overall, the leftist boasts a 16-point lead over Bolsonaro with less than two weeks until the election.

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In late-twentieth-century Scotland figures like Jimmy Reid, Jim Sillars, and Tommy Sheridan would all claim the inheritance of a proud, defiant, masculine, working-class politics.

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Ortega’s re-election followed a six-month crackdown on Nicaragua’s opposition which saw all of the former rebel’s main challengers detained or forced into exile.

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If they are repaid in full, they are set to rake in huge profits.

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Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s minister for climate change, issued a stark warning that Pakistan is ‘at the ground zero’ of ‘flash foods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, heatwaves and now the monster monsoon of the decade.’

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Who, you wonder, is supposed to be surprised at the combination of authenticity and articulacy?

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More challenging follow-up questions go unasked.

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These are just a few of Donald Trump’s policies that substantially reduced illegal border-crossings that under the Biden administration have swelled to 4.9 million, according to FAIR.

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The Democrats’ decades-long dream of creating a “permanent majority” coalition of college-educated whites and minorities requires letting in more and more migrants, legal or not, to increase the number of dependents on government largesse.

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Pakistan is not an isolated case: 54 countries are currently in debt crisis, and many of these countries are also on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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Pakistan was already in a debt crisis before the flash floods unleashed widespread destruction—with $12.5 billion of debt repayments due this year alone.

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Whether it’s rate of intermarriage, tastes in fashion, and now political preferences, students of Latino heritage are not as culturally distinct as they were when I was growing up.

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Amazingly, he was calling for President Trump’s resignation even though he clearly urged his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” during their protest.

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With his successful policies, people are flocking to Florida to participate in their booming economy.

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Pakistan causes less than 1% of global carbon emissions, but a third of it is now underwater – and rebuilding is going to be hamstrung by its $12.5 billion in debt repayments due this year alone.

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Its aim, based on rhetoric popularised by Burns, is to treat the cycle of violent crime as though it were a disease.

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Exceptions to this rule were tremendous leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump who were accomplished and effective in their roles.

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In day-to-day life, as explored in one of the book’s most compelling passages, the capacity to modulate vocal chords and swap out vocabulary for different contexts is a matter of great social significance here; this can come across on the page too.

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For now, border-state governors like Ron De Santis and Greg Abbot have done the country a great service by exposing the hypocrisy of open-borders Democrats, as well as giving their constituents some first-hand experience of the dangers and disorder of an unfettered immigration they haven’t had to experience first-hand.

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Over the years the promoters and leadership of leftist movements have been mainly middle-class and affluent, like today’s cognitive elite “woke,” “parlor pinks” and “limousine liberals” who espouse the principles that they can afford and that fit their upscale life-styles, making them superior to Middle America’s hoi polloi.

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The 2013 bipartisan “Gang of Eight” Republican champions of a “path to citizenship,” then, were not entirely wrong about the conservative inclinations of Latinos.

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Throughout America, our major urban areas have been destroyed by dangerous left-wing policies enacted by Democratic Mayors.

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And most important, the vetting process must not just sift out the unwanted, but identify those who can contribute to the well-being and success of this country.

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‘It is only because Conservative politicians are unaffected by the consequences of their policies […] that they persist with their bombardment of the poor and the vulnerable.’

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So far the scaremongering appears to be failing, however, with Lula launching a charm offensive to reassure Brazilian Christians.

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With a third of the land under water, 33 million people affected, and the death toll over a thousand and rising, the human and economic cost is set to be astronomical.

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Most were working class or poor, including the white Dust Bowl migrants––the vast majority of whom showed no signs of enjoying “white privilege.”

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Currently the rate of illegal entries in El Paso has been 1300 a day, while Yuma, Arizona this year has seen its population of about 100,000 more than double to 250,000.

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You didn’t see him scramble to get his Cabinet together when we hit record fentanyl deaths, which, that fentanyl is coming across his open border.

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The biggest insult, though, of this hypocrisy is the fundamental ignorance that underlies it.

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When Hillsborough County District Attorney Andrew Warren claimed he would not enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban, and refuse to prosecute certain crimes, while supporting gender transition treatments for minors, the Governor removed him from his office.

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All they had were leftist clichés and Dickensian melodramas.

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According to DeSantis, “Prosecutors have a duty to enforce the law, not pick and choose which laws they agree with.”

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The two crises of climate and debt are inextricably connected.

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The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain, McGarvey’s difficult second volume, contains some of those winning ingredients.

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Pakistan’s Floods Show the Climate Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis

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A veteran of many rap battles, you can’t review McGarvey without anticipating a counter-strike.

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Now, he didn’t scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had millions of people illegally pouring across the southern border.”

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For a writer with their ear to the ground in Scotland, the reality of a largely middle-class, anglicised readership is always problematic.

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However, the long-standing holy trinity of cheap energy, cheap food, and cheap money that has kept the lid on a long-simmering social crisis across Britain is about to expire.

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Lula has been facing groundless allegations that he would attack Christianity since the first of his six presidential campaigns in 1989.

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DeSantis also observed that Biden paid more attention to what he and Texas Governor Greg Abbott did instead of the worsening crisis caused by the open border.

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More than 4,000km and an ideological abyss separate the capitals of Nicaragua and Brazil, where an acrimonious race for the presidency is under way.

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The rise of these interventionist projects, argues McGarvey, has created a kind of inverted culture of dependency, in which many organisations employing university-educated workers on good salaries require the ‘fuel’ of impoverished people to justify their existence.

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“Do these guys really believe that, having lived in Brazil for eight years under Lula, that Lula would suddenly turn Brazil into Nicaragua?” Levitsky wondered.

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Given all of these impending shocks, and the desperate need to defend the conditions for life everywhere against endlessly expanding markets, is it really such an indulgence to demand surgery instead of treatment?

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One silver lining of this mess is the growing number of Latinos who are breaking away from the Democrat plantation.

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But the target of $100 billion a year of climate finance by 2020 has never been reached, nor is it anywhere near the trillions of dollars needed to meet the scale of the crisis.

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This is not the type of leadership the Republican Party or the country needs during this critical juncture.

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This did not display much of a caring attitude from leftists who love to tout that they support “sanctuary cities.”

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But the Central American country has found itself at the centre of Brazil’s election debate as its far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro seeks to weaponise Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian crackdown on the Catholic church to attack his leftist challenger, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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After the migrants arrived in the progressive playground, community leaders were outraged.

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Both Scotland’s First Minister and the nation’s most prominent billionaire, at odds on so many issues, agreed on the book’s merits.

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This anxiety speaks to two decades of Scotland being run by moderate centre-left devolved governments still shaped by New Labour’s founding assumptions and influenced by the rise of the ‘professional managerial class,’ a group increasingly framed as at the source of the nation’s ills by certain quarters of the Scottish left.

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