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sentence_id	sentence	label	solved_conflict
ab677701-ae20-42b4-89f2-ddf1eb71b8b7	(It’s also true that Alien Nation was “a masterpiece of precision,” but that’s by the way.)	SUBJ	False
56164d11-a7f5-4ac5-8dde-681e6f3436e1	It’s all justified in the name of racial “equity.” But it’s nothing more than a nice way of saying they want to destroy the Historic American Nation.	SUBJ	False
676d7dfd-f9d9-42fd-9b00-2165f4576cd7	These issues include punishing Sanctuary Cities and increasing deportations.	OBJ	False
f3c8718e-d553-4730-89d5-5077c96de10a	Only 20 percent of voters support it, while a third aren’t quite sure what it is [Poll: Nearly Half of Registered Voters Oppose Teaching of Critical Race Theory, by Susan Berry, Breitbart, November 16, 2021].	OBJ	False
10cb731a-0d62-4e85-b101-a51b48a20219	In contrast, in 2017 fewer than half of Republicans said minorities are favored over whites.	OBJ	False
61f81c00-d0c9-4a7f-a938-281d53ad912d	In part this is because the deleterious situation surrounding housing in the UK—a common feature of these columns—plays such a large, oversized role in economic and social life.	SUBJ	False
4ff56ac5-f712-46ad-96dc-b54e2e89b0ab	The Immigration Invasion symbolizes a lot about the present state of the immigration debate.	SUBJ	False
44ceea32-d8f3-40f2-8239-a76154cd0677	For half a century, household expenditure on gas and electricity has, in real terms, hovered around the £1,000 mark.	OBJ	False
c84a41ab-86c3-4294-8c0d-c670906d788d	This always reminds me of something I read in Patrick O’Brian’s book Desolation Island, set at the time of the War of 1812, where the British spymaster compares an American woman spy to Aphra Behn, who had lived several generations before.	OBJ	False
d36f2e07-810e-4092-be1c-a38755080521	But the party must do more than talk.	SUBJ	False
254c3baa-b2ef-4337-9b5e-05310a3d71d8	The GOP is reluctantly embracing White Identity politics—because it wins elections.	SUBJ	False
e485f164-36b3-492d-b999-7f5bcafa1db4	He died in 2019.	OBJ	False
6edaafad-75bf-41ef-9b6f-1752aadd2c2d	Not least in our immediate moment, as normal life is plunged into an extended period of national mourning.	SUBJ	False
a27a99cb-1a03-424c-b30b-3d53187e4841	"According to Gelbaum himself: ""I did tell [Sierra Club Executive Director] Carl Pope in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they would never get a dollar from me"" [The Man Behind the Land by Kenneth R. Weiss, LA Times, October 17, 2004]."	OBJ	False
06ccdd0d-ed22-45f6-b693-99c8499c6974	Of course, what we’re still living with is a disease “brought here by immigration”—and we’re still being called racist for saying so.]	SUBJ	False
36ecd6c8-6c66-400b-830b-46b97fd194fa	In June 2020, Wing wrote: “I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions.” Wing was misusing the Left’s insane lexicon here, for “folx,” as Merriam-Webster, which is now as woke as everyone else, tells us is a spelling that is “used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized.”	OBJ	False
ac06dad3-20fa-4a8a-a141-2d2dda09127f	Despite the title, its demographic section, while strong, is quite short—a surprise because Leon Bouvier has written several excellent detailed pamphlets on the impact of immigration on the population of key states.	SUBJ	False
a54c8442-d2fd-438c-811a-9aecdec52018	A November poll found that nearly half of American voters want the CRT anti-white curricula banned.	OBJ	True
f996fb20-ac93-463a-b6e7-7c0589ef437a	But in a broader sense, even were we absent this phenomenon entirely, the ongoing crisis of housing afflicting the UK should be seen in a similar light.	SUBJ	False
e5d06c08-ecc9-4ec4-a3a5-bae5914731b7	However, getting annoyed at the language in which Bouvier and Grant's message is couched is not the same as establishing that it has no content at all.	SUBJ	False
270acb32-71eb-4e5b-aef1-bc5b92f8f578	Nevertheless, they have also brought with them massive organized crime, rooted in history and fertilized by heroin.	SUBJ	True
c8164136-243f-476b-894b-37a35cc3ea8e	Apparently, you’re simply expected to accept all this.	SUBJ	False
4de73031-86d8-4c9a-8783-314799e99ed8	As has been pointed out elsewhere, the cost of rent is considerably greater than even the spiralling cost of energy bills.	OBJ	False
0b755e86-89c0-4cb5-9deb-c2de5add69f7	"But the book does go wrong, of course, because it never thinks to question what a ""Hispanic"" is anyway."	SUBJ	False
222f4cc8-1915-48b5-960f-d7222c39a263	Wing likes that “Karen” moniker, which became popular in the early COVID-19 days referring to a certain type of self-righteous busybody.	SUBJ	False
ee93750d-1d8d-41d0-8707-cbdbd505cda4	The constituent parts—a lack of tenant protections, absence of rent controls, a dismantling of social housing provision—predate this current crisis and are not accidents of history but foundational pieces in the deliberate building of a housing regime conducive to maximum rent extraction.	SUBJ	False
a54c28bd-bd04-40b9-b9e1-325b806d9b99	In Denmark, the government, alongside supporting parties, has announced a cap on rent increases in the private rented sector of 4% over the coming two years.	OBJ	False
fe3bcbca-bdb9-403e-be0c-e96da6d9c349	Campaigning against anti-white discrimination is a good sign.	SUBJ	False
50b02b91-1016-44a9-b178-7462567d1d18	About as dull and conventional as you would expect, this is a more or less digestible mass of Census data washed down with drafts of pious hogwash.	SUBJ	False
c5c2a9e6-9af8-4844-b91e-34b6100b5b8c	Dr. Tanton came out of the environmental movement—there's a lot of environment around his home in Petoskey, up at the northern end of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.	OBJ	False
bc50ea04-847f-4ffe-b325-3885d6b85cdb	[W]ill you really feel good at the end of the race when you look back and see others fighting obstacles that you didn’t even have?”	OBJ	False
7d43f1e4-cc11-4015-8de0-c881f970d90a	Wing is also the co-author of several Leftist indoctrination books for children, including one entitled What Is White Privilege?	OBJ	False
15cdcb8d-416d-42bc-a937-36cc7636a1dc	But Biden’s FDA recommended it, and according to Politico above, Biden’s CDC head Rochelle Walensky defended it.	OBJ	False
4d87c1ea-9983-41c9-bae3-0b34a98f8036	Funny thing: the MSM is at least partly right.	SUBJ	False
d954e14c-cfcd-4d1c-a323-c1989aedaa26	"(""Between April 1, 1985, and December 31, 1992, the number of foreign-born inmates in New York [jails] rose 194 per cent."" Hmmm. Original base? Proportion of total? State, city, or federal jails?)"	OBJ	False
57221b29-dbf7-4ec8-b6c0-865da935d192	Instead, it is distracted by fantasies of racial discrimination and victimhood propaganda.	SUBJ	False
9f04cac5-4551-4edb-8da2-328d992c0a73	But of course, that didn’t mean 300 million Americans—immigrants account for about 13.7% of the US population, and about a quarter of those are illegal (Key findings about U.S. immigrants, Pew Research Foundation, August 26, 2020).]	OBJ	False
076cb9ee-37a0-495b-8087-65ec6e1a0fb3	They shriek over attempts to ban Critical Race Theory.	SUBJ	False
ec350fa5-44b8-45a2-b6d7-b867af8220e6	Here, existing government guidance, laughably, merely notes that rent increases must be ‘fair and realistic’.	SUBJ	False
1cd330e6-3aab-4302-b0d0-236b210defdd	It might be laughable if it wasn't pushing hundreds of thousands into debt and poverty.	SUBJ	False
34214b6e-4313-4846-b86b-c775db7ede67	And they really don’t like complaints about President Biden’s crass promise that his first nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court must be a black woman, especially embarrassing because Affirmative Action is now on SCOTUS’ docket.	SUBJ	False
5b909e36-4806-45e5-9c6d-6b096c030169	On current projections, absent government action, it would have been rapidly heading towards £6,000.	OBJ	False
883d3cb5-49b5-481a-8b53-ae8d42080d35	The most recent figures point to close to 500,000 households falling behind on rent, the highest numbers in over a decade.	OBJ	False
cf44ced5-0b2b-48d0-aec6-91b5443076a6	Unravelling this Thatcherite model of housing—neither YIMBY fantasies nor ever-growing varieties of nominally ‘affordable’ housing are serious responses—is the prerequisite to meaningful change in this sphere of economic and social life.	SUBJ	False
8b6116a9-b844-4219-a45d-178528cf6e53	But it is absurd to claim that housework is as difficult and dangerous as fighting a fire or walking a beat, unless things are ordered very differently in the Roberts household.	SUBJ	False
82a155d1-80b1-4c3c-a373-8b8e0c4142f6	Thus it may be untrue that some super AIDS virus is even now incubating in the vast human Petri dishes that the Third World's sprawling cities constitute, and will be brought here by immigration.	SUBJ	True
d30b2906-4fc9-468e-af83-ab845c3c1543	Assuming, that is, that environmentalists want to influence non-progressives.	OBJ	False
aba10cee-2ea5-41b7-bd69-9aebf436947e	But here's what it looks like in practice.	OBJ	False
d4f7778d-0e72-455b-9d95-92de6d989578	[JF: Which emphatically turned out not to be the case.	OBJ	False
80ecdb77-283d-44f3-9b41-00af7ddfa629	They must adopt and champion an immigration moratorium, an end to birthright citizenship, and more forcefully, challenge the erasure of American heritage.	SUBJ	False
944cd3d5-ecd5-4f68-bf10-cc2bc09e37e1	That’s because the Sierra Club was bribed by a globalist billionaire named David Gelbaum who gave $100 million dollars to the organization, and used that leverage to stop them backing patriotic and ecologically beneficial immigration policies.	SUBJ	True
e645d739-2952-4b0a-906a-13193136e567	All of this amid falling pay: the most recent labour market statistics show the average weekly wage is £25 less this year than it was last year, while staggeringly, real weekly wages are still below the levels of 2008.	OBJ	False
9efbc35e-4d1c-46fe-a40a-64d13012d523	A careful reader of Who We Are can also trace the national demographic tipping resulting from immigration.	SUBJ	False
499b8a2b-af35-49b6-a645-40d7eaab4895	At a rally in January, Trump said that whites face discrimination that puts them in the back of the line.	OBJ	False
66eb9c75-28a6-45fb-8d30-8b3e48e4c2dc	A brief interregnum—as the Conservative Party membership decided who should run the country—followed by a secondary interregnum—as matters monarchical are attended to—may well precipitate a fallacious sense that all is well and rosy in Albion.	SUBJ	False
3119b7f8-09c0-44f1-a698-02923972705e	Americans at the grassroots are organizing in opposition to immigration, around and increasingly across traditional political battle lines.	OBJ	False
baa210af-4dc2-4b29-a8da-88987d361377	The last line of this NR piece was “Mr. Brimelow's book Alien Nation: Common Sense about America's Immigration Disaster will be published by Random House in February.”	OBJ	False
da207201-40ce-4ce5-a06a-70e89f29a0f9	Chinese crime, like Chinese cuisine, varies according to regional origin.	SUBJ	True
fb6c6565-36f1-4868-8714-5edf27b4c261	Of course, trying to corral a recalcitrant two-year-old at bedtime is certainly harrowing.	SUBJ	False
df08760f-d914-4a62-9a25-6b6ebfeed87f	Ohio Senate candidate J.D.	OBJ	False
aeaf21fb-6a10-4258-95ee-9806ed17f57a	It's hard for this book to go completely wrong, given the rich data provided by the Census.	OBJ	False
52a8fc30-405c-49e0-921a-d159f4f844cc	Donald Trump, says Wing, is the “whole [almost certainly autocorrect for white] boy version of a Karen” and former education secretary Betsy DeVos as “the queen of Karens.”	OBJ	False
2264ff7c-170d-4417-9aa8-bb8793c0d2f6	“If another Karen tells me about her feelings,” she exclaimed in one tweet, “I might lose it.”	OBJ	False
2e133cb4-21c7-4876-ad00-6e35b5d5b137	This is well-known, and when not denying, the MSM either justifies it or encourages it—see a partial list of our coverage below:  The third bemoans Trump’s attack on progressive prosecutors—many of whom are black—who spend more time on his business dealings than on crime.	SUBJ	False
b78168bc-031d-47c2-bc04-22130a6dc0f8	As an excellent recent Tribune column from Florence Wildblood shows, tenants are finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place: ‘either trying to find somewhere to live, competing with dozens of interested parties, or clinging on to what they have, swallowing hefty rent increases and putting up with substandard living conditions’.	SUBJ	False
7b7085cb-a71c-44b7-8cc0-1823ec89ca05	It’s also true that mass immigration, which was out of control already in the 90s, is more out of control today, because the American governments of the last 25 years did nothing about it.	SUBJ	False
579a0038-2956-4107-b3fa-0f6c996619fd	At least a dozen GOP-controlled state legislatures are aiming to ban CRT in schools.	OBJ	False
7a9bcc31-cb2e-4154-be98-8bf7294f7dd6	"But it will probably just claim that housewives (""homemakers"") are an oppressed minority deserving a federal program to protect their rights."	SUBJ	False
c585cac5-c985-41f2-9596-a9f1ecc51ea0	But it needs to go much further.	SUBJ	True
1b422f02-948f-43c0-a39e-6ec6afe1ac4f	"For example, Chinese immigrants no doubt deserve the ""model minority"" title pressed on them by the media and vote-hungry Republican politicians, at least in contrast to other recent arrivals."	SUBJ	False
aeb7173a-bf12-46be-b57f-63b738d30869	Portugal has announced rent caps—landlords can increase rent by only 2% in the coming year.	OBJ	False
7ac3a20c-f729-4aff-ae3a-1d1390beca4e	It “directs…education programs for school-age children of Department of Defense personnel” and “provides support and resources to Local Educational Agencies throughout the United States that serve children of military families.”	OBJ	False
8de179e0-b0af-4ad5-8fa2-567c5d499d1e	The mission of the Defense Department is to defend the United States from military threats.	OBJ	False
39af49f6-9e14-4156-87c4-eab3dff0d615	It may or may not be true that Mrs. Behn warned the British government, but it is certainly true that De Ruyter came and burned a lot of ships in the Medway in 1667.	OBJ	False
227c6969-fdde-43fe-bc30-946a2206979b	Which means that How Many Americans?, like Lutton and Tanton's book, has a significance beyond its content.	OBJ	False
b7326980-b3e0-4157-bb5a-85b3676925af	They wring their hands about Republican candidates and lawmakers who mention anti-white racism.	SUBJ	True
a7694e1b-0cf4-43f8-b0d7-6079dccaa707	Anti-white hatred defines the Democratic coalition.	SUBJ	False
4332344b-4218-4854-84b5-0aee517d5b85	They fret that Republicans are—gasp—embracing White Identity Politics.	SUBJ	False
e9f3fd62-9913-4179-8dbb-02bf9c59fc86	The anti-CRT messaging turned them out in record numbers.	OBJ	False
a4bc4e3b-4fb7-4c7a-a6ad-72ea82b7f4fe	It must explicitly act for the benefit of white Americans.	SUBJ	False
791e618d-9c49-424e-9b91-452b6dec68ff	[JF: Roberts updated this in 2004 with Who We Are Now—The Changing Face Of America In The 21st Century, and chapter 11 was titled “Our Changing Complexion.” Sample quote: “No single group changed the face of America more in the 1990s than immigrants.	OBJ	False
a3f45c37-8d34-4942-9a09-7e8d71902e4b	Several states have already done so, to the acclaim of voters [GOP sees ‘huge red wave’ potential by targeting critical race theory, by Liz Crampton, Politico, January 5, 2022].	OBJ	False
e29e52f6-4357-46c4-8400-3cb6da397b88	Especially after the famous victory that Julian Simon, the celebrated economist and immigration enthusiast, scored over Paul Ehrlich, the equally celebrated scientist and ecological doomster, by winning a bet that the prices of allegedly scarce commodities would fall over the next decade.	OBJ	False
28e733af-2883-44ff-8d55-dab820e42ccd	A quick survey of the terrain regarding housing shows the seriousness of the situation.	OBJ	False
94da768a-37bb-4685-bbec-0736886983a7	On nearly every issue dealing with immigration, voters were more likely to vote for Vance knowing that he is an immigration patriot.	OBJ	False
8d6bf3e4-b30f-4037-ad45-77dd23cdac9d	It’s the smart and natural thing to do.	SUBJ	False
b8d81c56-d881-4731-888b-58fe8101d3d4	A strong majority of Trump voters also believe that non-whites are favored over whites.	OBJ	False
b6e0fce3-6f14-4f94-896f-ca9b383088ce	Which is a benefit of multicultural diversity that you will not read about in the New York Times—or on the Wall Street Journal editorial page for that matter.	SUBJ	False
f87774e0-5778-4026-827f-1cc3a84d8f91	Population growth puts far and away the greatest pressure on the environment, particularly from the perspective of those, like Dr. Tanton, who value wilderness for its own sake, as an amenity, rather than wailing on about imminent economic or ecological collapse.	OBJ	False
98140624-0d54-4ccf-b759-2352e4c09191	A sample of what the Lügenpresse thinks is a fire bell in the night:  The first two articles attacked Republicans for bringing attention to the various states that prioritize non-whites for virus treatment.	OBJ	True
1ccb946b-24a5-4d85-82e7-e0816b81011a	He is simultaneously a practicing eye surgeon and a formidable political entrepreneur who helped organize both the Federation for Immigration Reform and U.S. English (and more recently English Language Advocates, its harder-line rival).	SUBJ	False
a71349f9-de76-446c-81bb-db5a0b6dbacb	And in the U.S., population growth is increasingly driven by immigrants and their descendants.	OBJ	False
fb0da41c-a5ac-48b5-9d75-fee1b2587942	They publish Dem Talking Point “fact checks” about truthful claims that Democrat states discriminate against whites in distributing treatment for the China Virus.	SUBJ	False
6959f024-2f3e-4a07-8a05-9cc249456c7c	Scotland, too, has now joined the ranks of nations intervening in the private rented sector, announcing a rent freeze and moratorium on evictions, due to run through March 2023.	OBJ	False
d46cc831-3ad0-41df-a698-7ee7c3be44c0	"The blurb describes it as an ""unflinching, progressive voice,"" and it is."	SUBJ	False
442cbe44-4db9-4da0-825c-0602df6a4d9e	In another tweet, Wing complained that “this lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too…I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS…we are not the majority, we don’t have power.”	OBJ	False
be67e8bb-aaeb-4f49-b39b-1bcdc3a4d0e4	It is true that we did nothing about it, and that the ships were burnt; but the report itself was a masterpiece of precision. Yes, yes.’”	OBJ	False
1e6bf869-72c6-4e0e-8c55-e1d658470ff9	Like the entire political class, and unlike the other authors under review, he seems serenely unaware that this is entirely the result of public policy—and undebated policy at that.	SUBJ	False
e880f0f6-7e20-4596-ad2b-1f854904fc65	DoDEA director Thomas Brady said: “Kelisa Wing is exactly the right person to lead our efforts in building on the foundational work done to support meaningful change in our organization.”  Yes, she is.	SUBJ	False
233c3b2d-b31f-43c9-809e-d3905944dc09	Wing frequently expressed exasperation with how insolently white people dared to behave in her presence.	OBJ	False
91ca2a5d-1ca8-4252-b7a2-91a1d538e46e	A remarkable 200,000 copies of this book are reportedly already in circulation, thanks to various anti-immigration groups.	OBJ	False
7636d762-d89f-4e40-b802-9ff9686ed265	With over half of social housing residents relying on credit or buy-now, pay-later services to cover their monthly essential needs, such an increase will no doubt bring greater hardship to a group whose incomes are already 40% below that of the median.	OBJ	False
85622c2f-5d16-4b34-a129-352b88467fa3	All of this reflects the political economy of housing—the political economy of renting, and of rentiers—that so shapes the contemporary UK economy: particularly so in England.	OBJ	False
9469f505-5265-4b69-a783-f20176d622f2	Earlier: Ariz. GOP Senate Candidate Blake Masters Appears To Be Running As An Immigration Patriot	SUBJ	False
47ae6294-fab1-42d5-b23b-28ac7b4ee1fe	We may have faith that human inventiveness will prevail in the long run.	SUBJ	True
d2d1d03a-a0e3-4465-96af-3322fbfbfd3e	Much of the book does indeed wail on about imminent economic and ecological collapse, complete with admiring quotations from Vice President Al Gore. (Anyone asked him about immigration?)	SUBJ	False
0c9b6914-522b-4bf5-bee7-09474de9217f	Those over 65 now own almost 50% of housing wealth; rents, as I discussed in a previous column, hover around 40% of income.	OBJ	False
ef0d3898-7dde-4f77-a2ee-a62c5ea2e547	And during no other decade in the nation's history have foreigners so profoundly altered the country's complexion in so many ways.” The 2004 book also contains a favorable reference to the “browning” of America, which is totally not a racist thing to say if you’re in favor of it.]	OBJ	False
d62fce6c-0d07-48e1-96dd-afde866d48d8	Mostly it is because Establishment conservatives and liberals are uniquely allied in their complacency and complaisance.	SUBJ	False
8540179a-cde4-4441-ae04-bd94273a660b	Amidst this backdrop the house price unaffordability bonanza continues: as Ed Conway of Sky News recently noted, where the average individual was paid £32,000 over the last year, the average house increased in value by £39,000.	OBJ	False
4bdab720-c753-4ff7-a4e3-25fe2ee0b375	"Here Mr. Roberts's reproduction of the conventional wisdom is useful, if unsettling: ""The sheer volume of newcomers,"" he says, ""may demand that if assimilation remains a goal [emphasis added] it will require more give and less take by the nation's non-immigrants than has been customary."""	SUBJ	False
94b23e07-4978-4d12-9efe-9fcdcd59b1d1	The single issue that overcame all others: Mr. Buchanan's criticism of immigration.	SUBJ	True
4e4d7ffa-aeed-4dd7-b1df-5ec9c091fee7	By learning more about White privilege we can work to spend it.	SUBJ	False
e880f523-f826-4128-b3c9-da98747af8d6	Once her rancid Twitter feed started to get media attention, Wing protected her tweets, but the cat was already out of the bag.	SUBJ	False
03f131a1-518f-422e-a6c8-6e1a26d9c167	No similar edification can be derived from Who We Are: A Portrait of America Based on the Latest U.S. Census, by Sam Roberts, an urban-affairs reporter at the New York Times.	OBJ	False
d2e86ec8-b81d-4cfb-a2ec-b562fed6bd90	As is often the case, when assessing political economic phenomena affecting and afflicting the UK, particularly in the sphere of housing, one doesn’t have to venture too far to find alternative approaches.	SUBJ	True
ea2600e0-a670-46bb-a9be-fe98289e2473	Cucky pundits claimed non-whites made Youngkin governor, but the Republican candidate received unprecedented support from rural whites.	OBJ	False
4b236b0d-34e8-4f0c-9a95-df7a461b53c7	"My favorite: Mr. Roberts's throw-away line that housework (""or homemaking, as it is now known"") is ""as demanding a job as any outside the home."""	SUBJ	False
33ed60dc-13b5-44f7-b682-e86eae34ec66	The likelihood of anything similar occurring in England presently seems slim.	SUBJ	False
9a7e4005-8a78-4fad-abbf-cb6781813008	Yet this strange anti-nation seems fated, if immigration continues, to be by early next decade the largest minority in the United States.	SUBJ	False
78fce583-32bb-46ce-95f0-e2302c9c0ee3	Even a Liz ‘no to handouts, yes to tax cuts’ Truss ministry, whether willingly or otherwise, has been forced to cover a serious chunk of this difference.	SUBJ	False
32b1e713-da4b-4790-8a78-f3f5803c4fc4	Now that the baffling, elongated, hyperreal coronation has occurred—no, not that one—and Liz Truss has become Prime Minister, a degree of intervention and action on energy bills has emerged, ahead of the looming socioeconomic catastrophe facing the country this winter.	SUBJ	False
45cc76ba-932f-4dcb-ab93-84612c459005	Though the devil is in the detail—as campaigners from Living Rent have been vigilant in stressing—this represents a hugely positive development.	SUBJ	False
89e4da1b-3fc8-4fd2-91b1-b10b92dff484	The fourth focused on Republican criticism of Biden’s excluding whites from the pool of candidates to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.	OBJ	False
47c97b8e-1821-4b8c-87b1-19251971d6ca	While other countries bring in rent freezes and caps to help people face winter, guidance in England just says rent hikes should be 'fair and realistic'.	SUBJ	False
872972cf-62d7-4d4d-bc59-76aad046fcfd	Privilege is like extra money in your pocket that you didn’t earn.”	OBJ	False
2cb2181f-f64d-497f-b83d-13487ea6b0a2	Amid all this, having as it does such a decisive impact on the UK economy, time should be spent looking at the way the cost of living crisis interacts with, and is exacerbated by, the political economy of housing in the contemporary UK.	SUBJ	False
413b57cf-3daa-4389-ac83-448163316f07	For intelligence, there is nothing like a keen-witted, handsome woman.	SUBJ	False
fdceff6c-c4e4-47cb-ac4a-4e20a03d9bc4	The book doesn’t just cast white folks (not folx, remember) into the outer darkness where they will weep and gnash their teeth.	SUBJ	False
e95cf9ea-ab4b-402b-829a-00f7f629c118	Republicans can hope for big victories if they oppose anti-white racism in the classroom and in public policy.	SUBJ	False
8c9be5e2-fccf-4697-b773-ea8c8f825f96	But in fact it was intensely rational.	SUBJ	True
9d5f50fd-3ea4-43b1-a03e-384226c0bac8	The “Sailer Strategy,” named for VDARE.com’s great Steve Sailer, is a proven political winner.	OBJ	False
c273aaad-2ddb-40c9-b22f-b4d062aa1ea0	Partly this is because of deeply deceptive advertising for the 1965 Immigration Act, which ended the forty-year immigration lull and began effective discrimination in favor of Third World immigrants.	SUBJ	False
87a12dc8-ed82-479c-bb05-0feadb886f3d	A lot of subsequent unpleasantness could have been avoided if people had listened—or if Republicans had listened to their constituents—see Ed Rubenstein’s How A 1992 Moratorium Could Have Helped Preserve the Historic American Majority.	SUBJ	True
a415a267-9fc0-43c9-b5d4-a6a27b2b1c1a	Some on the Right spin Trumpism as Moynihanian ends by Buchananite means.	OBJ	False
ecea61ac-bccd-4ceb-9be7-67e220b65ede	If you are White you might feel bad about hurting others or you might feel afraid to lose this privilege….Overcoming White privilege is a job that must start with the White community….	SUBJ	False
8f14010b-fff9-4964-9020-77b81ca75195	We would have been happy to buy them.]	OBJ	False
3303f472-4a24-4f40-a267-014b6a5afc11	The fight, however, continues.	OBJ	False
c7ecb649-8ff0-41ed-96e2-954fb64e72b9	Beyond all the double talk and cant, that’s what “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are all about.	SUBJ	True
d44715c7-1af7-4058-ba8c-ad469a4c152e	[JF: Originally this said “(Copies of the latter are available from the former)” with the phone number of US INC. Tanton’s organization.	OBJ	False
35d399d8-136d-45f1-8025-31aad9816b4d	Logically, however, environmentalists cannot be among them.	SUBJ	False
bab9d639-c9f8-4fd0-831f-ba85db258a46	So Americans can now savor Cantonese (vice and extortion), Taiwanese (fraud, money laundering), and Fukienese (violence).	OBJ	False
39e1167b-7132-448b-9daf-2822e8ffef75	[JF: They were declared the largest minority on January 22, 2003, by the U.S. Census.]	OBJ	False
603156df-c01c-4d9a-888b-7335793475f8	“If you're a white guy, tough luck,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said of Biden’s message on his Supreme Court pick.	OBJ	False
a0c896de-d710-43da-9021-1e4492acdd76	The Leftist Mainstream Media is worried about a GOP/GAP wave this election cycle.	OBJ	False
96b6f3cc-f385-421f-8334-8ac8bd484231	“I had some of her Antwerp reports in my hands not a week since, when we were looking through the Privy Council files, and they were brilliant, Maturin, brilliant.	OBJ	False
37a6f1fa-c4ce-4666-84c1-931da3b0ee06	They want white kids to learn to hate themselves, to put whites at the back of the line for health treatment, to discriminate against them in employment, and to open the borders to replace them.	SUBJ	False
653560f1-9724-4b19-9b54-5a629c70f988	Here's a larger version of that chart above:  Eight-four percent of Trump voters say discrimination against whites is real and will greatly increase.	OBJ	False
bf729f15-b7f7-423a-a941-7ed40185b905	But it is not a logical impossibility.	OBJ	False
49397391-65ac-4573-9d98-73806488671d	Peter Brimelow remembers him here: “A Citizen Who Took Up Arms For His Country,” December 26, 2019.]	OBJ	False
8cf115b3-7889-46ec-a9a9-923e63c947fe	The publication by the Sierra Club of this explicit account of the inexorable relationship between immigration, population growth, and environmental stress certainly suggests that the other hiking boot is about to drop, and that this most powerful of liberal lobbies is about to act on the immigration issue. At last.	SUBJ	False
7ac985bd-238a-4478-a37e-7d8fd2362f0c	In this capacity, he is editor and publisher of The Social Contract, the definitely unfrantic scholarly quarterly magazine that sponsored the book.	SUBJ	True
efb0b395-f6b3-4493-84e5-7500d1ab040e	Republicans are prioritizing Critical Race Theory as one of their prime midterm issues, and some have had the courage to say it’s nothing more than anti-white racism [Blake Masters: You Have To Be Able To Say “Critical Race Theory Is Anti-White Racism,” by Tim Hains, RealClearPolitics, January 23, 2022].	OBJ	False
b0520ed4-2d1a-461c-ad1a-99ed9b0d2cba	John Tanton himself exemplifies both the ferment and the fluidity Out There, beyond the Beltway.	OBJ	False
9c6e272b-039b-42ef-8d5f-ff6c5275845c	When a critic took issue with Wing’s claim that “racism is ingrained in the very fabric of our country,” the diversity, equity, and inclusion chief’s response was succinct: “Bye Karen.”	OBJ	False
0a4e3373-4e5f-4201-bf65-195e49b8f028	Population growth has its blind boosters, on whom it has not yet dawned that quality is infinitely more important that quantity.	SUBJ	False
f134434a-bef3-4f82-9638-249d4309a2a8	What all this indicates is how far from such a model of renting, still relatively widespread across much of Europe, the English private rented sector has moved.	OBJ	False
f489a801-a1a6-44d4-8593-87c860db04c1	[JF: Well, this, combined with Peter’s 1992 National Review cover story Time To Rethink Immigration, and the book Alien Nation, which was at this this time just about to come out, represents the start of the (repressed) immigration debate of the 90s.	OBJ	False
28120d7e-4a94-4549-8d1f-e5ff3d1d98c4	Leon F. Bouvier and Lindsey Grant project that the U.S. population will rise to 396 million by 2050 and 492 million by 2100—that is, nearly double today's total of 250 million.	OBJ	False
3e191455-a1a2-4aed-b5fd-79d6e4c44533	And against this backdrop, and with swathes of the media seeming more apoplectic about the comedian Joe Lycett puncturing the cosy consensus than the government consciously sleepwalking through a crisis so as to benefit from action upon Truss’ accession, there is a danger that Truss’ interventions will be treated as the be-all and end-all in terms of the cost of living crisis.	SUBJ	False
08cb2a89-0154-4354-9ac2-d78f02c5e42a	The surveys show it.	OBJ	False
9477599b-f8fa-4db3-9d17-91a26e44df0a	There are indeed cases of societies that have destroyed themselves by triggering ecological catastrophe—notably the Mayans, who exhausted their jungle soil.	OBJ	False
deb21eeb-86a2-4d83-8b72-bb3c74c218ed	[JF: I wrote in March 2020 that “A number of immigrant-borne diseases have struck American since then, and it's always considered racist to mention it.”	SUBJ	False
82eadee0-37f9-4a72-a5a0-1bbc3c1fd3f0	Stephen Maturin, a key character, had only heard of Behn as a playwright, but the spymaster corrects him.	OBJ	False
35616325-be0c-45f5-9d02-307a859f6af2	The fact that the highly professional environmental lobby in Washington has been so silent as immigration has soared is a measure of the extent to which it has been seduced by its liberal allies.	SUBJ	False
c7b74720-b489-4cb2-af8a-adb6b91a08a4	Yet Wing herself, so full of herself and certain of the righteousness of her own views, is the quintessential Karen.	SUBJ	False
f77e3bac-cd88-4edb-9b45-136fc015d096	Wing, who calls herself a “woke administrator,” demonstrated that she would be a perfect person to serve as a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer when she took to Twitter and unleashed her hatred against white people.	SUBJ	False
9ab7260c-07ec-4dc8-9378-01730f192c45	So in just four or five years, Republican voters have awakened to reality [More than half of Republicans think minorities are favored over Whites in the United States, by Philip Bump, Washington Post, June 29, 2021].	SUBJ	False
da0f5ab6-49cf-4238-871c-4b669fb349e8	What could possibly go wrong?	SUBJ	True
4ea360e2-d38e-475d-81c7-17e2e741f785	But, alas, The Social Contract Magazine is no longer published and while its archives are still online, all the physical copies of back issues were destroyed by the new management at US INC, including issues that we more or less wrote ourselves (Spring 2008—A VDARE Reader and Winter 2006-2007 “Mass immigration and the 'National Question'”).	OBJ	False
ecda95fe-2699-478b-b4ef-9d013936f04d	[JF: Obviously, immigration wasn’t stopped: the current population of the United States is 329.5 million—it passed 300 million in 2006.	OBJ	False
96168362-052e-4873-9caa-e3da5bc6e032	This Census category was created by political pressure and reflects neither race, nor culture, nor even language, since many Hispanics can't speak Spanish.	OBJ	False
33dbc95e-e540-4bdf-9896-f4e42088944b	pic.twitter.com/ebaKIycQW5— Joshua Tait (@Joshua_A_Tait) February 7, 2022  While the Leftist MSM mock the idea of anti-white discrimination, the vast majority of Republicans surveyed believe it’s a real problem.	OBJ	False
d785d7a6-c8a3-4675-a84c-a57629f312a3	Yet he reports that in the 1992 presidential primary he voted for Patrick J. Buchanan.	OBJ	False
a8574fea-839c-4785-bf8c-e3cad60c6fca	When Wing got her diversity, equity, and inclusion job at the Department of Defense in December 2021, the Department proudly said that she “has been involved with diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts for students and schools over many years, authoring several books on the topic.”	OBJ	False
836d171f-3262-47d4-9552-447704aebdac	There are indeed cases of societies that have suffered disastrous die-offs because population growth outstripped their technical and institutional capacities—notably Ireland during the potato famine.	OBJ	False
4dde2fd9-844d-4a82-972d-ef475f1735a8	Now, this angry, self-righteous racist oversees diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which, according to a Tuesday Fox News report, “provides K-12 education to the DoD community in the U.S. and all over the world.”	SUBJ	False
56a1c548-f084-465c-a55c-02cb874d079b	It is frankly a handbook, almost a work in progress in its frantic pack-rat compilation of press clippings, the assimilation and accuracy of which left me sometimes uneasy.	SUBJ	False
61568966-3432-41e4-a6ad-c2ae27bca57b	She told us that De Ruyter was coming to burn our ships.	OBJ	False
e3cb5bc6-2ceb-42b9-ad72-cf31395c04a7	Only 38 percent of Trump voters care about the much-hyped discrimination claims of non-whites [84 percent of Trump voters are worried about discrimination against whites, by Maureen Breslin, The Hill, October 8, 2021].	OBJ	False
35ff689f-c26e-40ef-b85b-e0a4ac18eefd	It says reassuringly: “There is hope!	OBJ	False
079a09db-baad-417f-9bfa-35d72bfc3146	But what about the short run?	OBJ	False
1a8992a7-8686-4e96-b4b9-f10fd54e75a9	To paraphrase her hero—in a manner which even the Laffer Curve-loving subsections of her party would in private admit—at this juncture, there really was no alternative.	SUBJ	False
b733cbc2-41ed-4ffd-851e-d22cfe525338	That can happen again.	SUBJ	True
0e29b48c-d622-4286-8cbd-35e667a24b52	The MSM is right to fear that white identity politics will play well for Republicans.	SUBJ	False
b5261758-20c9-4afd-b4ca-cfa26f3418e5	If the New York Times intends to reverse a generation of brainwashing women to despise their traditional roles, that would be nice.	SUBJ	False
24291601-3770-4045-844a-0bfdc3612947	This time around, the immigration issue has just snuck up and mugged the American nation, as opposed to the protracted debate before the last immigration cut-off in the 1920s.	SUBJ	False
a71c5988-63bb-4e60-8cbf-c8c62d3f994e	Demand creates supply, however, and you can now read about this and many other delights in Wayne Lutton and John Tanton's The Immigration Invasion, a treasure trove of facts on the most critical but worst-covered issue in American politics.	SUBJ	False
18cd6eed-3aa4-48fd-b097-afd2fedab550	Where Denmark, Portugal, and France respectively are capping private rent increases at 4, 2, and 3.5%, the UK government thus far has only commented on increases in the social rented sector—and here, they are proposing a 5% increase as their preferred solution.	OBJ	False
03efc279-f1a9-498b-8d38-d5b75e8b6954	Anti-white identity politics is the glue that holds together the Democrat Party’s fringe coalition.	SUBJ	False
af39fe9a-8f61-48ae-942d-cb30e68776b1	She is exactly the right person to do what diversity, equity, and inclusion departments everywhere are designed to do: sow resentment and division and hamstring the actual efforts of the organization foolish enough to establish one.	SUBJ	False
73f16a1f-da16-4e9c-81f0-bc24a5a09753	It’s full of what you would expect: “White privilege hurts a lot of people.	SUBJ	False
a6a8f6f7-7579-4244-a705-80598c6b0128	And in France, too, government action is limiting the ability of landlords to raise rents—in this case, capping any increases to 3.5%.	OBJ	False
c49e2d7b-6bd0-4d41-8931-4a95c80861e6	In 2016, American voters elected a President who ran on a platform of patriotic immigration reform.	OBJ	True
edf70da3-91ff-4754-80e6-db1a992ad03a	And wouldn't it be (secretly) reassuring if, as John Tanton likes to ask mordantly, the theorists of innovation had ever actually invented anything themselves?	SUBJ	False
60420f5b-f44b-4676-a749-d8a1bad77a87	But the MSM does have a point about GOP rhetoric finally targeting anti-white racism.	OBJ	False
eac1267d-c8c2-494c-879d-0837f12c4783	Vance’s pollster found that the issues that most animate GOP primary voters deal with race and culture [J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race, by Alex Isenstadt, Politico, February 7, 2022].	OBJ	False
9d05cec9-9f0f-4aac-8702-e694cb6ef2d1	The plain fact is that the GOP base wants white identity politics.	OBJ	False
93db29d7-05c1-4bee-acc4-969ebc681a8b	If you’re a patriotic American, black, white, or whatever, who believes in the equality of dignity and rights of all people, regardless of race, Kelisa Wing, the Department of Defense’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, hates you.	SUBJ	False
d3a7c906-fbbb-4987-afc2-778e7079389b	"For example, by reading carefully you can pick up enough signs of social pathology among Hispanics to refute the hopeful neoconservative contention that their ""family values"" are worth importing."	SUBJ	False
0ff59567-45ef-41fd-a74e-622283a4d658	The GOP must do much more to show it’s the party of white Americans aka the party of the Historic American Nation.	SUBJ	False
41eccebb-1efc-437d-9358-aef8d38c6645	To put this into perspective, this is almost 100,000 households more than fell into arrears during the first year of the pandemic.	OBJ	False
78cb4484-2683-422a-8340-074ba1efe456	“CAUdacity” is “Caucasian audacity,” and you can see how marginalized poor Wing really is: she had to stop the session and lecture this uppity white woman about how powerless black folx such as Wing herself actually are. Indeed.	SUBJ	False
6df9d06c-5ac4-4bd7-87e7-c33626f7e6e8	Anti-CRT rhetoric won the Virginia gubernatorial race for Glenn Youngkin.	OBJ	False
17bb1ca0-2a4b-4415-b31c-3ac8d7df0c1d	He had links with Planned Parenthood and with the campaign to legalize abortion in Michigan (before the Supreme Court deprived Americans of the right to decide the question, a development of which he creditably disapproves).	OBJ	False
e74aa315-54ac-42e4-824a-daa4037c08b7	Yet no environmentalist hoping to influence non-progressives can afford to ignore this economic point.	SUBJ	True
93559357-4aa9-462b-a02f-5956e9649de8	[JF: Dr. John Tanton was, of course, the great American immigration patriot who can be credited (or blamed and demonized by the Treason Lobby) for founding the modern immigration control movement.	OBJ	True
dc63dbc4-2f4e-4ffe-9081-0480ff34a72e	In this sense, listening to the wails of Mr. Bouvier and Mr. Grant may be a sort of spiritual and intellectual discipline.	SUBJ	False
0d0c5c78-1533-4424-bbcf-56ec6f6fa666	And this wailing betrays the fatal tendency of non-economists: to view resources as absolutes and ignore the market's ingenuity in rationing by price and finding substitutes.	SUBJ	False
82936e71-748b-4506-a788-2e2acad34065	"Thus, while the word ""illegitimacy"" is now apparently banned, nearly 30 per cent of Hispanic households are headed by a single parent, compared to less than 19 per cent among whites. (The black rate tops 58 per cent.)"	OBJ	False
7ee9e66a-ca34-405b-9105-3d6d852b1b33	A 2020 think tank study of Trump voters found that they were primarily defined by their opposition to immigration and political correctness and their affinity for white identity [The National Populist Illusion: Why Culture, Not Economics, Drives American Politics, by George Hawley and Richard Hanania, CSPI, November 30, 2020].	OBJ	False
80219740-e549-4307-8160-520d63953ec6	But if immigration is stopped—even as late as the year 2000, by which time another 10 to 15 million immigrants will have arrived—Americans seem likely to stabilize their numbers voluntarily in the 300-million range.	SUBJ	False
c38d69a8-3ad2-4b0b-aad5-4d7b26b0e9fe	Yes, the feted rise in energy bills—now partially offset by belated, albeit welcome, government intervention—would have represented a cataclysmic economic shock.	SUBJ	False
48bbaf14-d23a-49ec-a565-4baf9acd1b75	But in the kingdom of the blind, or deliberately unseeing, the one-eyed pack rat is king—or at any rate can keep his snout pointed in the right direction.	SUBJ	False
ba789da0-801c-43ce-9d77-f5aac5d6c4aa	The cost of living crisis is exacerbated by our long-running, ever-worsening cost of renting crisis—but this has not arisen newly in the way the energy crisis relatively has.	SUBJ	False
6348acc1-d8a3-419d-a132-a0fd02959e4b	She doesn’t seem ever to have demonstrated a level of self-awareness that would have enabled her to realize that.	SUBJ	False
3053c77c-238f-470e-a3ae-af27b8ff4db6	So the exhausting white people in Wing’s meetings couldn’t have been “folx,” but Wing has more than enough racist anti-white tweets to maintain her woke bona fides.	SUBJ	False
d2fff27d-5159-4d75-8960-8a69dc9fb4a0	Dr. Tanton's choice may seem astounding viewed from the perspective of Washington's ritualized Left-Right trench warfare.	SUBJ	False
5d061713-5eaf-43ff-aa26-60c3e7ee1338	In every sector of policy—education, immigration, health care, even foreign affairs—Democrats emphasize that their policies will shaft whitey in favor of the great POC coalition.	OBJ	False
8745d4da-91c9-4538-acee-b0e7b1c413fd	Who will redistribute the hoarded wealth that has exploded beyond all reason in the author’s lifetime?	SUBJ
43de04ad-d0ac-4852-9b4e-cf0bca066188	What we don’t need is the indiscriminate influxes that include criminals, drug-traffickers, deadbeats, and terrorists.	SUBJ
e00b66ee-720a-47e3-a0fb-0e2445b89af6	The Social Distance Between Us shows every sign of emulating the critical and popular success of Poverty Safari.	OBJ
0b95d635-f821-45dd-9f33-b05d63629195	History shows that McCarthy and McConnell, like so many Republican leaders, collapse after demands from the left.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
b77ca544-f648-4826-a5b0-5e415b085bcf	Over the past few decades, very few real fighters have been in positions of power in the Republican Party.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
4d4ca193-1e45-40bc-90c4-e43eec20f78c	Meanwhile, the radical political project of marketising every conceivable aspect of life in contemporary Britain continues.	SUBJ
54c95e90-9c05-49ff-a38b-38694106a9c2	Their posh communities don’t have to deal with the drug and sex trafficking, overdoses, crime, and daily disorder.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
13ea05f2-b22e-4ebe-ac38-e7d8ee1fab10	DeSantis believes in freedom and is constantly fighting the “woke” left on a range of issues.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
b016acca-7d46-4c96-9220-3155c79d65c9	This is, primarily, a book about individuals.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
857b5178-79aa-44bd-b8f6-666b567dd6a6	Some of them talked a lot about racism and bigotry, or waxed lyrical about the poor.	SUBJ
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.’	OBJ
ff376756-2e3c-46b8-8e09-a4bd20d50baa	Instead of hiring legions of IRS auditors, that money should go to hiring more border-patrol agents.	SUBJ
f941b093-3b4f-46db-9f79-f6e60cfdc85f	This is what is in noticeably short supply among the ranks of GOP politicians, resolute leaders with a backbone.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
d205cd1b-8a9d-44fa-a87e-7f6d8f9416ef	Evangelicals still prefer Bolsonaro, with 48% of them supporting his presidential bid.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
093e795c-d010-40db-8024-eb7e5183b1b5	What if the poor aren’t the problem?	SUBJ
678fa551-1ad8-4727-a200-e84eef6bfb82	DeSantis is on course to win a strong re-election after barely defeating an extreme leftist four years ago.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
9f338e5f-c357-4b08-b533-fe7474c1ddc1	Often, his news conferences are sparring sessions with progressive reporters who are editorializing and not acting like objective journalists.	SUBJ
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.”	OBJ
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.	OBJ
c8cd5091-8d0a-401f-a1fc-8482f97fae92	Worsening global economic conditions had already pushed Pakistan to the brink of economic collapse.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
4d95f4ff-b85a-4018-8f9a-5e4341cb4058	This means first securing the border, as Donald Trump had made a good start at doing.	SUBJ
a94559de-b137-4304-83d4-823b914ed8e6	Private lenders have long used these shamelessly predatory actions to profiteer at every turn.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
04577eb0-b2da-4335-b662-23218d2e983f	The author would go on to bag an Orwell Prize.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
44a3a130-3774-4ec1-a267-a90e918ae982	Those numbers are a real “humanitarian crisis.”  There are many reasons for the bipartisan de facto open-borders policy.	SUBJ
73805bd5-3ced-4002-abb9-030f71122eac	Overall, the leftist boasts a 16-point lead over Bolsonaro with less than two weeks until the election.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
bb329cca-2a24-4dc1-9693-8f0b4e7f3abd	If they are repaid in full, they are set to rake in huge profits.	OBJ
5beb5acc-7d89-400b-a021-39adbbba0713	Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s minister for climate change, issued a stark warning that Pakistan isat the ground zero’ of ‘flash foods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, heatwaves and now the monster monsoon of the decade.’	OBJ
855968e7-ec6c-4be2-bfda-8df8b73df8a7	Who, you wonder, is supposed to be surprised at the combination of authenticity and articulacy?	SUBJ
e5321308-7bad-4494-936c-1d72fdd46e37	More challenging follow-up questions go unasked.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
0c819317-aa6e-4a59-95c2-c1b1676cc5db	With his successful policies, people are flocking to Florida to participate in their booming economy.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
ce042ff4-5185-4f6b-9bbf-2e2e684b936b	Throughout America, our major urban areas have been destroyed by dangerous left-wing policies enacted by Democratic Mayors.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.’	OBJ
14b65c64-453f-4069-aa4e-bd507d710046	So far the scaremongering appears to be failing, however, with Lula launching a charm offensive to reassure Brazilian Christians.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.”	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
97afd40d-d5bc-4ac8-8bdb-919a8cf7cef3	The biggest insult, though, of this hypocrisy is the fundamental ignorance that underlies it.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
27255909-5b2c-4cb7-9ef4-c7b3f5a4df40	All they had were leftist clichés and Dickensian melodramas.	SUBJ
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.”	OBJ
bbe27add-1a14-45fc-9a72-e6877a1834f7	The two crises of climate and debt are inextricably connected.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
dedfb154-90d3-4939-9720-85c3d45b730a	Pakistan’s Floods Show the Climate Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis	OBJ
143f8a96-f047-4311-bc53-771b6cb4cad1	A veteran of many rap battles, you can’t review McGarvey without anticipating a counter-strike.	SUBJ
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.”	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	OBJ
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?	SUBJ
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.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
07b49741-c736-4f13-802d-71f89a8376ae	This is not the type of leadership the Republican Party or the country needs during this critical juncture.	SUBJ
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.”	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
15c6e9d2-0c23-4983-83c5-381bc6fe2a56	After the migrants arrived in the progressive playground, community leaders were outraged.	SUBJ
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.	OBJ
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.	SUBJ
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 social stability.	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
5ae82be2-a1d0-4e35-a9f7-8514fcd28d1a	The book creates its own kind of distance, building out from the immediate and tangible to the remote and vague.	SUBJ
f74a48a1-030f-427e-ba0a-a7cbac387da4	Meanwhile corporate plutocrats want lax immigration protocols in order to stock the pool of cheap labor.	OBJ
5c262d4b-8717-4492-951f-4bcd31a9285e	But debt repayments to wealthy creditors should never be prioritised over human need—a fact even more true in the face of this extreme catastrophe.	SUBJ
a920e3b1-60a5-40db-b85c-aa9ae1650def	It is estimated that the extensive damage to the country will cost at least $10 billion.	OBJ
5b5d8783-5a31-48c2-94af-f22f5260c917	Trump never called for an overthrow of the government, an insurrection, or any type of violence.	OBJ
b6c152e1-cb30-48bc-8c7b-fa7fa7e6723a	Instead, there are lots of apolitical homilies in the second half, entitled ‘Fucked, Left, Right and Centre’—as though the author is glancing back nervously at his readership’s disparate political leanings.	SUBJ
68dd0b86-75a0-45f6-aec2-aae46f01df91	To make matters even worse, the finance that has been delivered has mostly been in the form of loans, not grants.	SUBJ
95bf5656-39a0-45ae-8eec-7961b6dc6630	It goes back to the beginning of Marxism.	OBJ
dc4ad712-6ce8-4de9-9493-5c0f768d0e11	Today, the GOP is saddled with unimpressive and docile leadership in Congress, considering the massive problems that are facing our country.	SUBJ
140e00eb-8bdf-471b-92c7-5185c541fc8c	Still, the author remains a creation of his home nation’s sometimes confusing approach to class.	SUBJ
1a583603-ee01-4e67-830e-a7c2bc875bff	He should take lessons from the stalwart members of the House Freedom Caucus.	SUBJ
51923e5c-d3ce-49df-ae00-a0bf1c316f55	Self-proclaimed “sanctuary city” Martha’s Vineyard, one of the richest and whitest communities in the country, has turned out to be not much of a sanctuary for the illegal aliens they claim to care so much about.	SUBJ
2dde34d9-60d3-46d2-a463-1d0d6524ce21	Then again, as a middle-class wanker (certified as such by working-class family members), I would say that.	SUBJ
1862ff1a-cf7a-4b04-b0b2-f940c5ae4069	And rich, polluting governments should also set up a fund for loss and damage to enable lower-income countries to fund rebuilding and reconstruction following climate disasters.	SUBJ
c1fa1b06-9174-4ba5-9348-92e29777956e	DeSantis noted the irony of President Joe Biden criticizing his decision to transport migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.	OBJ
44d5910c-8ccb-498e-bdcf-d1ef600caf4b	Most of us know that given our declining birth-rates, we need immigrants.	SUBJ
dd6d349e-378a-4615-9756-e968d5a672be	Barack Obama, who frequently lectures “bitter clingers” about their xenophobia towards “people who are not like them,” owns a huge, 29-acre estate in Martha’s Vineyard that could easily accommodate all 50 Venezuelans.	SUBJ
e0a3de7c-adb7-4145-b811-8eed6ca69457	‘I possess a frame of reference which a university-educated arts worker may not,’ he notes, before explaining that his work with young offenders is informed by his own lived experience of violence.	OBJ
b3ba5acc-4aa6-4e05-ab03-1dd94fb511a7	Rich governments also need to stop shirking their responsibilities and scale up the climate funding required to the tune of trillions of dollars.	SUBJ
a375ebc0-2244-4e48-b55a-a49d6061bb0c	As both a candidate and President, Trump was especially successful as a counter puncher, responding in kind when he was attacked.	SUBJ
a30709e5-5226-4410-9f82-7b028161f66d	Karl Marx came from the upper-middle class, and his financier and collaborator Friedrich Engels was the scion of a wealthy Prussian textiles industrialist.	OBJ
3cc2ce94-2d92-423b-8e86-d16b055728c5	This decision was met with howls of protest from Warren’s Democratic supporters, but it was also greeted by staunch support from the state’s law enforcement leaders.	OBJ
a104488a-0ddf-43f2-9f45-443ce725fa8b	About 80% of the people living around our ranch were so-called “people of color,” mostly ethnic Mexicans, the vast majority legal.	OBJ
18c1d485-e004-44ee-8348-140f157dd842	“I don’t think anyone has ever taken such care and ensured the freedom to open churches and practice one’s faith as I did,” Lula told a rally of evangelical supporters earlier this month.	OBJ
277ff574-23df-47e4-b0e7-31f4a4d87129	It wasn’t until I got to UCLA and started interacting with mostly white, mostly affluent professors and students that I started questioning my callow leftism.	OBJ
8348aa20-a65d-4b3c-b5eb-bc7d3e7cc83f	But the main problem with The Social Distance Between Us is structural.	SUBJ
a591988e-9264-41d7-a122-c06ce37fc82a	But authenticity has its limits.	SUBJ
22fbfc4b-9c74-4f60-a362-a707fda0ac75	These lenders include Western banks and bondholders that have purchased bonds at knock-down prices.	OBJ
dbaa3b3e-ad1d-44a8-bd81-713176e75a9a	A longer-term solution would involve cancelling Pakistan’s debts down to a sustainable level to enable the government to put people’s needs before the profits of wealthy creditors.	OBJ
470e1a74-f945-40b4-8df5-777415ab332c	Lula has sought to neutralize Bolsonaro’s attacks by distancing himself from Ortega, a revolutionary hero turned authoritarian who has governed continuously since 2007 and secured a fourth consecutive term last year through elections opponents called a sham.	OBJ
cc4b50e5-5df4-469f-96f8-bea3b5b88f45	The debt crisis has meant that Pakistan continues to make its debt repayments to foreign creditors, even though this involves essential resources being diverted away from building climate resilience and investing in essential public services, leaving the country at the mercy of climate disasters.	OBJ
60d1af09-d5f9-443b-a614-7c8a078dc6fb	Since January 2019, DeSantis, along with his political action committee, has raised an astounding $177.4 million.	OBJ
6be17e0a-c359-4d36-b249-84158c60f149	Today, one person stands out as the type of politician the Republican Party needs.	OBJ
6b01c721-8c87-4404-b8f8-be774d7e664a	Meanwhile, documentary film maker Ken Burns by implication called De Santis Hitler, and Hillary Clinton directly called him a “human trafficker.”	OBJ
946b293e-9f9e-42c5-8948-4889f6b4b8ef	We need to get serious about immigration, which means specific reforms and ending blue-state nullification policies like sanctuary cities, as well as not letting corporate interests override national interests and security.	SUBJ
a2ee6c4f-8860-4daa-a7b9-0f473fa2f483	In one recent television interview Bolsonaro appeared with the word Nicaragua written on the palm of his hand.	OBJ
ce449e36-1a4b-410d-a000-1c829bdfe146	Experts describe the Bolsonarian allegation that Lula – a moderate two-term president from 2003 to 2010 who enjoyed good relations with both Catholic and Protestant leaders – would close churches and jail clergy as ludicrous.	OBJ
181e1769-a7f3-4cd8-be91-d0d793471dbb	Then there’s the hysteria over relocating illegal border-crossers, something Biden’s Feds have been doing for months––an estimated 10,000 just to New York.	SUBJ
62cff7b0-e459-4cbe-b534-6a814a50302e	The poverty memoir is an old, popular, well-established genre.	OBJ
dfd1bc2d-5419-46fd-84a1-ac4d2ee2138d	It doesn’t tinker with the underlying social settlement, however.	SUBJ
e398e3aa-2af1-45d4-9672-d709d50b6aed	Asylum claimants must be kept in Mexico while their claims are adjudicated.	OBJ
7db63c04-f58e-4b77-93d4-d1e22fb7a376	Another example was the Governor’s move last week to fly fifty illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.	OBJ
1f703ae9-0468-4b33-ae3e-fc3368f334a4	Pakistan faces a deepening debt crisis to pay the costs of a climate catastrophe it did not cause.	OBJ