Ben Phillips
@benphillips76.bsky.social
Director of the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as a Director at the UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Fellow at Bellagio, Notre Dame & Bosch. Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Writing a new book.
This is real. They just arrested Santa.
It’s a War on Father Christmas.
🗞️ www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2566053...
It’s a War on Father Christmas.
🗞️ www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2566053...
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is real. They just arrested Santa.
It’s a War on Father Christmas.
🗞️ www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2566053...
It’s a War on Father Christmas.
🗞️ www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2566053...
Great visit to WFP Pavilion in Bangkok. Loved:
Resilience, not rescue: school lunches from farms nearby.
Dignity: Rome (left) saying “people enjoying a meal” (never “beneficiaries receiving food”).
Thais fighting hunger worldwide. “Donor countries” frame is over.
➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/geeta-...
Resilience, not rescue: school lunches from farms nearby.
Dignity: Rome (left) saying “people enjoying a meal” (never “beneficiaries receiving food”).
Thais fighting hunger worldwide. “Donor countries” frame is over.
➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/geeta-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Great visit to WFP Pavilion in Bangkok. Loved:
Resilience, not rescue: school lunches from farms nearby.
Dignity: Rome (left) saying “people enjoying a meal” (never “beneficiaries receiving food”).
Thais fighting hunger worldwide. “Donor countries” frame is over.
➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/geeta-...
Resilience, not rescue: school lunches from farms nearby.
Dignity: Rome (left) saying “people enjoying a meal” (never “beneficiaries receiving food”).
Thais fighting hunger worldwide. “Donor countries” frame is over.
➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/geeta-...
The Crimson Room
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Crimson Room
Such a great movie about friendship, hurt, and love ❤️
Magic!
Magic!
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Such a great movie about friendship, hurt, and love ❤️
Magic!
Magic!
This is so good. Watch to the end!
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is so good. Watch to the end!
Happy Thanksgiving?
ICE keeps detaining indigenous people, even when they show IDs.
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ICE keeps detaining indigenous people, even when they show IDs.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Happy Thanksgiving?
ICE keeps detaining indigenous people, even when they show IDs.
⬇️
ICE keeps detaining indigenous people, even when they show IDs.
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They asked him, “What are your memories of Nigel Farage?”
His reply:
His reply:
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
They asked him, “What are your memories of Nigel Farage?”
His reply:
His reply:
This is brilliant.
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is brilliant.
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
For me these pictures also illustrate the reaction of people when you
(try to) persuade them through data
vs
persuade them through narrative
Tree of My Life, Joseph Stella, 1919
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Tree of My Life, Joseph Stella, 1919
The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
A writing exercise where the candidate is not allowed to use the words “occupy” or “occupies”.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A writing exercise where the candidate is not allowed to use the words “occupy” or “occupies”.
20,000 children
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
20,000 children
The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.
🔍 Zoom in…
🔍 Zoom in…
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.
🔍 Zoom in…
🔍 Zoom in…
🎤 Mic drop:
South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the US administration’s “view of us - or the African continent - is a very dim view, thinking they can just tell us ‘jump’ and we’ll say ‘how high?’
It 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 work that way! “
📺 Sound up 🔊
South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the US administration’s “view of us - or the African continent - is a very dim view, thinking they can just tell us ‘jump’ and we’ll say ‘how high?’
It 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 work that way! “
📺 Sound up 🔊
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🎤 Mic drop:
South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the US administration’s “view of us - or the African continent - is a very dim view, thinking they can just tell us ‘jump’ and we’ll say ‘how high?’
It 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 work that way! “
📺 Sound up 🔊
South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the US administration’s “view of us - or the African continent - is a very dim view, thinking they can just tell us ‘jump’ and we’ll say ‘how high?’
It 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 work that way! “
📺 Sound up 🔊
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, speaking at G20 Summit, welcomes Leaders’ Declaration
🗞️https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2025/november/20251122_g20
🗞️https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2025/november/20251122_g20
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, speaking at G20 Summit, welcomes Leaders’ Declaration
🗞️https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2025/november/20251122_g20
🗞️https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2025/november/20251122_g20
“How well as the UK government polling?” Ahem…
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
“How well as the UK government polling?” Ahem…
This exchange is a classic of the genre.
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This exchange is a classic of the genre.
Brilliant, vital, FT oped
by Lula, Ramaphosa and Sanchez:
We face an inequality emergency
by Lula, Ramaphosa and Sanchez:
We face an inequality emergency
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Brilliant, vital, FT oped
by Lula, Ramaphosa and Sanchez:
We face an inequality emergency
by Lula, Ramaphosa and Sanchez:
We face an inequality emergency
words used to mean things
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
words used to mean things
Monday: UK Labour copies brutal anti-refugee policies of Danish sister party in an attempt to win votes.
Tuesday:
Tuesday:
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Monday: UK Labour copies brutal anti-refugee policies of Danish sister party in an attempt to win votes.
Tuesday:
Tuesday: