Ruth Taylor

Common Cause is hiring! We're looking for someone to join our small team to help build on our recent successes. There's lots of opportunity for a new member of the team to bring new ideas & perspectives to shape the next phase of our work. Find out more & apply here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber David Graeber on Modern Capitalism

When David Graeber explained why Corporations behave the way they do in modern Capitalism!

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Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained. 🧵

George Lakoff and the Arts on Trump’s inauguration day - CC Foundation On the day of Donald Trump’s most recent inauguration, the veteran campaign strategist and “deep frames” scholar George Lakoff published a 17-point rallying call to resist authoritarianism, co-authore...

"Lakoff is right: we need to support and celebrate the arts for its subversive potential. But this potential is, without question, lost as soon as the arts become valued only for their contribution to economic growth." Read @tomcrompton.bsky.social's latest blog post here:

If you're a journalist or media professional, come and join me, @elsieroderiques.bsky.social and others in your field to talk about the media's cultural values footprint this Thursday! www.tickettailor.com/events/commo...

📢 Narrative & Culture Change Roundup #50 Welcome to Culture Soup, the new home and name for ‘In Other Words’ - the narrative and culture change roundup email, curated by me (Ruth Taylor) from 2020 - 2022.

📢 Narrative & Culture Change Roundup #50

Kicking off my 2025, with a round up of stuff I've been reading and listening to over the last few months. Hope you find some gems in there to help ease you into the new year 💕

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Come and join the Comms team at NEON!

It is a really special role in an amazing team - with a budget to commission messaging research, a training component, rapid response work and working with the Spokes Network & Worker-led Transition programmes.

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We’re here at the beautiful St Ethelburgas for the very first ‘Values in the Media’ conference, where we’re discussing what the UK media can do to take responsibility for its influence on UK values #VIM24

Bridging the values gap: reimagining journalism through human connection - CC Foundation Last month, a friend and colleague shared an article with me that cited a recent study conducted into ‘journalistic values from an audience perspective’ in Chile, the results of which recognised the “...

"Mainstream news has always been shaped by dominant cultural values & the reverse is also true: the media helps shape cultural values. It’s time for the sector to acknowledge the inevitability of this&take responsibility for its “cultural values footprint.” New blog from @elsieroderiques.bsky.social

Oh blimey! Didn't look at Bluesky for 10 days and my followers have doubled. Is the exodus from the-site-that-shall-not-be-named finally here?!!!!

The Big Thing People Miss When Thinking About Values When you hear the word 'values' what do you think of? As a word it has many meanings... some more helpful for systemic change than others.

I've got a new blog out today exploring the common ways that the word 'values' is understood and how perhaps we're missing the transformative power of values for systemic change. open.substack.com/pub/valuesna...

Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush"

Values in the Media: How the mainstream media shapes UK cultural values | LinkedIn An event for all those working within or with the UK news media sector You're invited to our inaugural Values in the Media event on 28th November, an afternoon of talks and workshops focused on how t...

Do you work in the media? Come along to this event on Nov 28th and explore the question of how the mainstream media shapes our cultural values www.linkedin.com/events/value...

The assumptions and beliefs that drive the climate crisis are unlikely to deliver us safely out of the climate crisis. Most people and leaders don't believe that and instead push harder on the same dangerous levers.

📢 Narrative & Culture Change Roundup #49 Welcome to Culture Soup, the new home and name for ‘In Other Words’ - the narrative and culture change roundup email, curated by me (Ruth Taylor) from 2020 - 2022.

The latest Culture Soup roundup has been published! 📢 If you'd like to see the latest writing and thinking in the field of narrative & culture change in one place, you can check it out here: valuesnarrativesculture.substack.com/p/narrative-...

“The plural of incremental change is not system change. The plural of incremental change is failure." - George Monbiot

YouTube video by Common Cause Foundation The importance of cultural values for meaningful change

📣 New animation from the Common Cause Foundation advocating for the need to shift our cultural values in order to meet the social and environmental challenges of our time. Check it out, share and let us know what you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDoD...

a woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above her ALT: a woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above her

Hello 👋 Could this be the place to fill the twitter-shaped hole in my life?