It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman
19-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com

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

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, Cooga
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