Article 6WQVV It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman

It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman

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Phillip Inman
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Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk

Steve Coogan wants people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.

The film's central character - a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina - rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it's possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider.

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