Ben Phillips

“We have to humanise security because humanity is being securitised.” My brilliant friend @sanambna.bsky.social, with the wisdom of peacemakers.

“We have to humanise security because humanity is being securitised.” My brilliant friend @sanambna.bsky.social, with the wisdom of peacemakers.

White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Clarity in communications

Clarity in communications

Photo of a doorway created with twigs in a lush green forest

“Passage”, 2007 by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Spring

Rubio says the war started because, having learnt Israel would attack Iran, & knowing this would result in a major Iranian response, the US “had to act” - and acting meant joining in. Sound up: 🔊🔊🔊

Rubio says the war started because, having learnt Israel would attack Iran, & knowing this would result in a major Iranian response, the US “had to act” - and acting meant joining in. Sound up: 🔊🔊🔊

So pleased to be invited by Spain to give this lecture.

Does this war seem to be going well?

Does this war seem to be going well?

And here we are…

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through The Night)

For St David’s Day, Ciaran Jenkins of Channel 4 News and I play the Welsh song Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through The Night). #StDavidsDay

Bright and breezy illustration of three daffodils painted on a simple, grey background

St David's Day
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

Artist: H Woolley (1954)

George Bernard Shaw famously said “I have no enemies under six.”

So too, none of my enemies attend a girls primary school in any country, none of their deaths is ever acceptable collateral damage, and no man who blows them up is a feminist, a liberator, or a decent human being.

George Bernard Shaw famously said “I have no enemies under six.”

So too, none of my enemies attend a girls primary school in any country, none of their deaths is ever acceptable collateral damage, and no man who blows them up is a feminist, a liberator, or a decent human being.

40 years on from his assassination, we are commemorating Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

His social democratic ideas and actions still guide us in today's authoritarian populist world, where the need for progressive values and policies has never been greater.

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A piece of Gaza, a piece of Venezuela, a piece of Iran, a piece of Cuba, a piece of Greenland…

A piece of Gaza, a piece of Venezuela, a piece of Iran, a piece of Cuba, a piece of Greenland…

3 lessons from Manchester seem to be:
1) The politically dominant economic & foreign policy status quo - “Mandelsonism” if you will - is fatally unpopular.
2) This boosts the hard right, but
3) Popular progressivism can beat both neoliberalism AND fascism.

3 lessons from Manchester seem to be:
1) The politically dominant economic & foreign policy status quo - “Mandelsonism” if you will - is fatally unpopular.
2) This boosts the hard right, but
3) Popular progressivism can beat both neoliberalism AND fascism.

"....after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein."

Davos Man

Davos Man