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Bonnie Greer on how Trump, Farage and Johnson have been able to channel the anger of the disaffected

Looking at this tweet which just went out the other day, I was reminded of that undoubtedly hot night just this past August in Mississippi, when Nigel Farage strode out on to the stage of a Donald Trump rally. https://twitter.com/prweekuknews/status/775295684178247680 This was one of modern politics’ most beautifully symmetrical moments. Here they were – the […]

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Writer and pundit Bonnie Greer gives her searing take on the passions stirring change across our contradictory landscape

The hottest book in America right now is a memoir by Silicon Valley executive J. D. Vance. It’s called: Hillbilly Elegy. It is the poignant and eye-opening memoir of a son of what are called in the US ‘white trash’; ‘rednecks’; ‘hillbillies’. They are the descendants of the Scotch/Irish-people who came to America as indentured […]