In 19 84, even going to university for anybody in the ke at that time was something of a rarity. My dadad and left school at 14, gone into the mine ns didn't have any qualifications whatever. Continually lost his job in the mines as one closed down after another. We were living on the poverty line, you know, the working poor. And it was highly improbable that i would then find,. you know, something a to do with myself.
Foreign policy and national security expert Fiona Hill is a go-to voice in Washington for understanding the longstanding tensions between the US and Russia. Her latest book, There Is Nothing For You Here, is part memoir, part reflection on how factors ranging from deindustrialisation to disenfranchisement over the course of decades have left a swathe of voters in nations such as the US, UK and Russia, open to populist policies and strongman leaders.
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