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Author, How to Fight Inequality. Comms Director @UNAIDS . Justice is not given, it is won. This is personal.

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Ben Phillips
3 months
At @TheKingCenter Global Summit. Kingian nonviolence: 1) is not soft, it confronts power. 2) is not a history that is past, it is an approach for today. 3) learns from Dr King, but is about what *you* do. 4) is the most effective way of bringing about social change.
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2 years
A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened
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1 year
How to do a media interview while being carried away by police for protest. 10/10, no notes.
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1 year
Just massive kudos for the person who created this Halloween squirrel feeder
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7 years
The best news story today is this little girl called Anu showing her friends her new foot. Watch.
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2 years
We used to “correct” kids who were left-handed - through violence, shame or “guidance” on how to be right handed. And so there seemed to be very few left handers. Then we stopped, & with no shaming there was a seemingly rapid rise. Then a plateau. This is a tweet about trans kids
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5 months
I clicked sort by age. There are 6 pages of these before you get to the one year olds.
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3 years
Just a parrot at the vets pleased about his recovery
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2 years
Ukrainian refugee kids arrive in Italy, and start at local schools. On their first day they enter nervously. You won’t believe what the Italian kids did next …
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1 year
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this
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1 year
German TV news on what is happening in British politics is amazing. No need to understand German, watch to the end
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2 months
This is very good
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4 years
Question. Answer.
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2 years
This is the saddest movie ever made
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3 years
At last, our world has a leader. She is Mia Motley, Prime Minister of Barbados, and *this* is a speech:
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Ben Phillips
10 months
Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊
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6 months
“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”
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4 months
“Lives found ended” is not a phrase in English. This is the first time it has ever been used. The daily coining of new euphemisms. The shame of it.
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Ben Phillips
25 days
This image
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Ben Phillips
4 years
A very large panda eating a very large carrot, very loudly
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4 years
Graphs are useful but to really get what that rising curve is, have a look at the obituaries page of this Bergamo daily newspaper, comparing one from February with one from now
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2 years
Once again Barbados PM Mia Mottley has been the one who has delivered the speech the world needed. May she be heard, may we rise. Take 8 minutes to listen to the whole thing. Share the lines that grabbed you most. #COP26
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7 years
There should be an app to watch all Trump interviews like this
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2 years
The mayor of Kyiv shows how to do a TV interview
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4 years
❤️❤️❤️ To beat #Covid19 , listen to this Italian grandma.
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7 years
Every newsroom in America: - Trump has fired the Nazi. - Which Nazi? - The one called Steve. - Which one of the Nazis called Steve?
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2 years
Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people. Model railway dads:
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2 years
This photo of Tuvalu’s virtual address to the Climate Conference says everything that should need to be said. #COP26
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2 years
This is so good. Man wakes up and it is 250 years later.
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5 months
Writers the contest is over: this sentence has been written and you’ll never write a sentence this bad.
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3 years
peak dad has now been reached 👑
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3 years
What if the point is not to beat the others but to make sure everyone makes it?
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2 years
The first two donkeys are all the “I faced hurdles but I got over them” folks; the third donkey is the one we need to be
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2 years
🎤 9 year old Gugulethu Ndzendze from South Afica sings Ave Maria. What a wonderful talent. Happy Christmas all. 🕊
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5 years
Be this girl. *watch till the end*
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10 months
Put her in charge of all things, she’s amazing.
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2 years
When you’re searching for how to say what you feel. 30 seconds of wisdom here, watch till the end.
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2 years
One of the most heartbreaking sentences ever written: “The child was pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox because they did not qualify for free school meals and did not want their friends to know there was no food at home.”
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8 years
Peak #Brexit : UK protestor tries to burn the EU flag, but can't, because of EU regulation on flammable materials
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8 years
Why the Internet was invented.
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2 years
Just so well done. Watch the whole thing.
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Ben Phillips
3 years
“I love you.” In 44 seconds, this is the politics of loving.
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6 years
This is really, really good. Fox News vs North Korean State TV.
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Ben Phillips
4 years
What makes this photo so amazing is that it looks so ordinary. The man in the shorts waiting in line in this shop in Portugal is the President.
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8 years
London Mayor Sadiq Khan breaks Eid fast with the Archbishop and the Chief Rabbi. I love this picture so much.
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2 years
I feel sick
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Folks it’s not that complicated
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2 years
No one is self-made
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2 years
Finally, the answer to the question “if you help a sloth cross the road, will they be grateful?”
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2 years
Superb
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Ben Phillips
4 years
OMG now the mothers’ group are singing “hands up please don’t shoot me” in the style of a lullaby. Impossible to watch and not cry.
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4 years
This is a desperately low point for any politician to get to. A mother died of starvation; her baby, who she was holding when she died, was mercifully found. The minister in charge of welfare is invited repeatedly merely to express sympathy. And cannot ...
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2 years
This video. Wow. Asking Siri what the time is in Palestine.
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Ben Phillips
3 years
I love this clip of Mike Gravel recounting reading the Pentagon Papers into the Senate record, because of what it teaches about courage. He was not excited, not confident; he was “frightened to death”, scared of going to prison; he was overcome with emotion. And *that* is bravery
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4 years
Truly extraordinary times indeed. Question Time has just allowed on a person who knew what they were talking about. Kudos to Richard Horton here, the editor of the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet, speaking facts to power.
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2 years
All in under one minute: Trickle down economics brilliantly explained, by the @Exploding_Heads
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2 years
This is so good.
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1 year
This is such a poignant conversation with such a wonderful man. Blue Peter interviews Anne Frank’s father Otto in 1979
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8 years
Greek statues dressed as hipsters.
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4 years
Which one are you?
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1 year
I don’t know who needs to hear this but when Paul Robeson, the great American movie star, singer, and activist, met with British miners, and he sang Joe Hill, it went like this ...
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6 months
In 1919, seeing children from the defeated Austrian empire starve, Eglantyne Jebb established Save the Children. Many asked "How can you help enemy children?" One of Jebb's supporters, the great George Bernard Shaw, replied, "I have no enemies under six."
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3 years
🤦🏻‍♂️
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2 months
So there are western politicians who didn’t want to sanction Apartheid South Africa for defying international law, but do want to sanction democratic South Africa for upholding international law. 😐
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BREAKING: US congress introduces bill to review relations with South Africa following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case
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Ben Phillips
3 years
This new anti-protest law is being proposed in Britain this Tuesday. This bill is so draconian it says that if your action *or inaction* means *anyone* is *at risk of serious annoyance* (yes, that’s the bar!) you can be jailed *for a decade*. Crushing the vigil was just the start
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3 years
No your country hasn’t taken most of the refugees from Afghanistan. Not even close.
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1 year
Amazing
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7 years
Pointless but brilliant hobby of bookstore employees, via @GreggDCaruso
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2 years
Cats’ reactions to the cat face filter are superb
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4 years
Two of the three people below are famous, well paid, right wing intellectuals, who get to work from the safety and comfort of home. The third is a nurse.
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4 years
“How much time do you want me to wait for your progress?” The great James Baldwin would be 96 today, and his question has still not been answered.
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2 years
Siri, *how* does it “trickle-down”?
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4 years
Wow that went big. So Pls NB this mom’s sign from the protest.They are amazing inspirational women, and also, as they note...
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4 years
I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but this is the bird dance for every option on your phone alarm.
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3 years
@david8hughes The second funniest thing about this superb tweet is Americans denying it can be true because they don’t know that there are time zones
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2 years
This is amazing and perfect. Read the whole thing.
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Without comment. Hear, in their own words, what is being said to defend the blocking of life-saving humanitarian assistance.
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4 years
How to be a journalist, in 15 seconds, by Mehdi Hasan.
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2 years
This is Prof. Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. He is global health eminence par excellence. And he just eviscerated global health. 🧵🪡
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4 months
This poem.
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7 years
White folks: If you like to think you'd have rejected white supremacy 60 years ago & defended her rights & dignity, do it now & defend his.
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Statue of slaver Robert Milligan in London taken down: agreed by owner, announced by Mayor, done by authorities. And all the people who’d shouted the toppling of the Bristol slaver’s statue was bad because it was *not* done this way were ... still angry. Maybe they like slavers?
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Progress.
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2 years
The debate about history and social studies lessons explained
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For May Day, would you like to hear how it went when Paul Robeson, the great American movie star, singer, and activist, met with British miners, and he sang Joe Hill? Well, it went like this ...
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To understand inequality, economists & political scientists only take us so far. We need artists & musicians. Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddam is a blunt lesson told to the privileged about their myths & lies. <thread> First, that the radicalism of the oppressed is the problem:
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I didn’t think we’d see anything more moving than the videos of people on their porches and balconies clapping for the heroic doctors and nurses. Then I saw this video of the doctors and nurses applauding the cleaning staff. My heart. 🙏❤️✊
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2 years
These shadows. How beautiful.
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More kids killed in Gaza in 4 months than all wars worldwide in 4 years
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Ali Hasan is a 15 year old refugee from Syria, living in Portugal. Bureaucracy delayed his registration to his football club for 3 years, but this week he finally received it and, well, just watch what that means to him - and what it means for the Portuguese boys in the team.
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10 years
Well done whoever did this. http://t.co/wlbAC8reur
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@aSciEnthusiast That's lovely. Reminds me of this poem you can read top to bottom or bottom to top.
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2 years
Kudos to this person dressed as a pink bunny at the bomb shelter at Kharkiv metro station. ❤️‍🩹
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7 years
Best ever use of "(left)" in a photo caption
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I fixed the Daily Mail headline on today's terrorist attack.
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Watch to the end, comedy gold. Lord Ashcroft, asked about tax dodging, walking around in circles for two minutes until he finds a toilet a hide in. Delightful metaphor. #paradisepapers
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That bit in Love Actually where our hero stands up to a yucky President, sort of just happened...
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In Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, a brilliant, beautiful and brave protest. This woman holds up a *completely blank* sign, and is still taken away by police. Shero.
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