Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.
Irvine WelshThese days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.
Irvine WelshI think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.
Irvine WelshIn America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.
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