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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Norway raises billions taxing the wealthiest. Mexico slashes poverty by raising the minimum wage. The world takes a major step closer to an International Panel to tackle inequality. All in less than two minutes. Welcome back to the Public Good News

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Poignant that Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while she was in the hallowed site where the 1945-1946 Nuremberg Tribunal took place. Now, with the institutions & the very idea of international justice threatened, the prize sends a vital message that hope can prevail.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Unfortunately, there’s just no money.”

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone with a phone can search for themselves Rafah on google maps and click satellite view and zoom in…

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The loud banging of one country crashing out; the quiet rise of others.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the awful thing is that this is not even a failure for Milei, but a success

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hate speech doesn’t end with words.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Multilateralism is not idealism. It is a necessity. Lula, Costa, Ruto and Carney are right. 🔗 www.ft.com/content/d9e6...

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I may have spent a load of my life in international conferences, I might have been better persuading people to join local organisations in my own area.”

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brazil’s forests, London kids’ lungs, China’s solar, and global hunger reduction. All in two minutes! Welcome back to the Public Good News.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

John Cena is perfect as the ACME corporation’s lawyer in Coyote vs ACME: “The law's completely on our side here, cause we wrote the law.”

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ones who remember … The 70+ were the age group who provided the *least* support to the AFD in their victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage cheers on his supporters as they physically assault a protestor who dared to challenge his multi-million dollar bribes.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The commonly used Mercator map inaccurately shrinks the size of Africa. African countries have just organised a vote at the UN for a shift to an accurate map instead. These was the tally of votes. Can you guess who voted against?

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.” - Gloria Steinem

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Israel’s National Security Minister made this AI video featuring himself. It’s titled “we promised - we delivered”. How to describe this video?

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

He’s right, and it’s great to see a major British leader say it. Part of getting Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities ready for inevitable change is saying it out loud. More political, faith, cultural and community leaders need to do so.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is from this week. Without googling, can you correctly guess the country this is happening in?

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is an absolutely extraordinary breadth and depth of support for a policy call that the President and his financiers have prioritised preventing.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is an absolutely extraordinary breadth and depth of support for a policy call that the President and his financiers have prioritised preventing.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This kind of message discipline is rare & special. This vid was made by mazemoore to criticise Bernie but honestly it slaps. He kept on highlighting the harm caused by intensification of oligarchy, &, at last, what was once “left field” is now central to the public conversation.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

These can feel like desperate times - literally, times of despair. But I insist on hope. At the end of this conversation with Dave Gill on Causes Show (📺 www.causes.show/episodes/ben...) I tried to set out in two minutes a case for hope. Do you agree? What would you add?

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I came across just now in Berlin, and my first thought was “I gotta post this on socials” 😉

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Politics is not about facts. That’s one of the hardest lessons for progessive wonks to face. Watch the Causes Show episode on making change and changing the narrative 📺 ➡️ www.causes.show/episodes/ben... Here’s my two minute answer to the host Dave Gill on why being right is not enough:

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Transformational political shifts don’t start with a new policy, they start with a new story. ODI Global’s Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou asked me to summarise how narratives have set the contours of politics in the past 80 years - in two minutes! Did I manage it? My answer is here:

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Europe is gonna stand up for Oman against this threat any moment now. Any moment now. It’s coming. Of course they will defend international law. Just wait. Wait, it’s coming. Don’t rush them they are getting ready.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If it wouldn’t work they wouldn’t be spending so much to stop it 😊

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is beautiful: see the reactions of Pakistanis when offered money to burn the Indian flag.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“The people united will never be defeated” is an utterly beautiful chant, and *not true*! When defeat is so common, why should we not give up on organising for a more equal world? Here’s my take… 📺 Watch or 📻 listen to Causes Show: www.causes.show/episodes/ben... Watch this 1 minute clip: wdyt?

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

With *this* 2026 Telegraph piece that declares: “Climate change is real, but Britain can do almost nothing about it. The war against global warming has been lost. It’s time to accept this sobering reality and learn to cope with, and even enjoy, a warmer, climate.”

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Compare *this* 2007 Telegraph piece that declares: “Too many journalists & scientists built careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful & ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How do organisations working to advance international cooperation need to change the way they work so they’ll be able to win the battle of narratives? Below are Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou’s question to me on this & my answer. Would love to hear your thoughts on what you think is needed. @odi.global

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shocking new research shows conventional measures of pandemic preparedness don’t work in the real world as inequality undermines countries ability to fight pandemics. 💻 bsky.app/profile/benp... Headlines from Japan, Nigeria, South Africa, & Bahrain that illustrate media coverage around the world.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

AFP: Inequality best predicts how nations handle pandemics: study Economic inequality is the clearest way to predict how countries fare in a pandemic, a high-profile panel said, calling for a rethink in how governments prepare for the next global health crisis 🗞️ www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Failing to tackle inequality puts countries in pandemic danger, new research shows New England Journal of Medicine piece @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social 📖 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Background data 📖 www.inequalitycouncil.org/wp-content/u...

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Love everything about this conversation between the new Prime Minister and a care home resident who didn’t realise he was.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This politician in Canada used ChatGPT to write his speech and then just directly read out loud the AI prompt without realising it, announcing to legislators “Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points." Glorious!

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Wall Street Journal having a normal one again 😐

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When countries face an extraordinary emergency, other countries have a role in support. Strengthening cooperation isn’t about dividing the world into “donors” & “recipients” - it’s about building a system to which everyone contributes & from which everyone benefits. Watch Canada thank Mexico:

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is such a clear and beautifully put summary of the absurdity of neoliberal smears on collective action, and how the public good secures a decent life for everyone.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

120 millionaires say “tax us!”

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