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.
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Ben & Patrick explored these themes in a recent thought-provoking discussion we held about making the case for global solidarity in humanitarianism – watch it back in full now: buff.ly/6rWzYw9 📺
Humanitarian aid at a crossroads: making the case for global solidarity
Join us on Thursday 4 December for the HPG Annual Event 2025.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Ben & Patrick explored these themes in a recent thought-provoking discussion we held about making the case for global solidarity in humanitarianism – watch it back in full now: buff.ly/6rWzYw9 📺
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"Narratives are not merely the words people choose to use. They are the stories that frame how societies understand the world."
Patrick Gathara & @benphillips76.bsky.social explore 🔟 ways to challenge existing narratives and foster a new story for humanitarianism’s future: buff.ly/nEPBoO6
Patrick Gathara & @benphillips76.bsky.social explore 🔟 ways to challenge existing narratives and foster a new story for humanitarianism’s future: buff.ly/nEPBoO6
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Changing the narrative of an aid response system that is often blind to its inherent failings will be hard, but it is essential.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
"Narratives are not merely the words people choose to use. They are the stories that frame how societies understand the world."
Patrick Gathara & @benphillips76.bsky.social explore 🔟 ways to challenge existing narratives and foster a new story for humanitarianism’s future: buff.ly/nEPBoO6
Patrick Gathara & @benphillips76.bsky.social explore 🔟 ways to challenge existing narratives and foster a new story for humanitarianism’s future: buff.ly/nEPBoO6
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Huge fundamental problem, the trickle down is damned up and it almost always has been without strong unions.
Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Huge fundamental problem, the trickle down is damned up and it almost always has been without strong unions.
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Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:
Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:
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Have a good week...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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Hot off the press!
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism | Ben Phillips
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Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
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Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
We wrote to challenge hum...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Hot off the press!
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
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"It is not certain to work. But trying to cling on to global humanitarianism’s imploding status quo is certain not to work. Indeed, the status quo has already stopped working & cannot be saved" www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... @benphillips76.bsky.social
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Changing the narrative of an aid response system that is often blind to its inherent failings will be hard, but it is essential.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
"It is not certain to work. But trying to cling on to global humanitarianism’s imploding status quo is certain not to work. Indeed, the status quo has already stopped working & cannot be saved" www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... @benphillips76.bsky.social
Hot off the press!
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism | Ben Phillips
Hot off the press!
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
https://lnkd.in/ey5K3MDu
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
We wrote to challenge hum...
www.linkedin.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Hot off the press!
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism
Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian
LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...
New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...
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An aid worker killed. An aid worker from the Red Cross. Hussein is the most recent of the more than 500 Palestinians killed since the “Ceasefire”. The total number of people punished for these killings is: 0.
📍 Gaza | We share our heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues, and friends of Hussein Hasan Hussein Al-Sumairy, who was killed today while providing emergency medical service in Khan Yunis.
Medical personnel and humanitarian workers must be able to carry out their work safely.
Medical personnel and humanitarian workers must be able to carry out their work safely.
February 5, 2026 at 1:57 AM
An aid worker killed. An aid worker from the Red Cross. Hussein is the most recent of the more than 500 Palestinians killed since the “Ceasefire”. The total number of people punished for these killings is: 0.
An aid worker killed. An aid worker from the Red Cross. Hussein is the most recent of the more than 500 Palestinians killed since the “Ceasefire”. The total number of people punished for these killings is: 0.
📍 Gaza | We share our heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues, and friends of Hussein Hasan Hussein Al-Sumairy, who was killed today while providing emergency medical service in Khan Yunis.
Medical personnel and humanitarian workers must be able to carry out their work safely.
Medical personnel and humanitarian workers must be able to carry out their work safely.
February 5, 2026 at 1:57 AM
An aid worker killed. An aid worker from the Red Cross. Hussein is the most recent of the more than 500 Palestinians killed since the “Ceasefire”. The total number of people punished for these killings is: 0.
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You all complaining loudly about the cuts Bezos is making to the Washington Post’s entire international coverage but are completely ungrateful for his bankrolling the Melania movie with tens of millions of dollars.
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
You all complaining loudly about the cuts Bezos is making to the Washington Post’s entire international coverage but are completely ungrateful for his bankrolling the Melania movie with tens of millions of dollars.
You all complaining loudly about the cuts Bezos is making to the Washington Post’s entire international coverage but are completely ungrateful for his bankrolling the Melania movie with tens of millions of dollars.
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
You all complaining loudly about the cuts Bezos is making to the Washington Post’s entire international coverage but are completely ungrateful for his bankrolling the Melania movie with tens of millions of dollars.
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When it keeps happening, we must surely see that it is an alarming sign of an economy, a politics and a society that we have allowed to be badly rewired. We must and we can do better than this.
Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
When it keeps happening, we must surely see that it is an alarming sign of an economy, a politics and a society that we have allowed to be badly rewired. We must and we can do better than this.
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Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.
When it keeps happening, we must surely see that it is an alarming sign of an economy, a politics and a society that we have allowed to be badly rewired. We must and we can do better than this.
Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
When it keeps happening, we must surely see that it is an alarming sign of an economy, a politics and a society that we have allowed to be badly rewired. We must and we can do better than this.
Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.
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@clubdemadrid.bsky.social President @laurachinchilla.bsky.social highlights CdM’s partnership with @globpubinvnet.bsky.social and the recent meeting with ambassadors & governments in Madrid as a key step toward making GPI a political reality.
GPI will feature at the 2026 Annual Policy Dialogues.
GPI will feature at the 2026 Annual Policy Dialogues.
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM
@clubdemadrid.bsky.social President @laurachinchilla.bsky.social highlights CdM’s partnership with @globpubinvnet.bsky.social and the recent meeting with ambassadors & governments in Madrid as a key step toward making GPI a political reality.
GPI will feature at the 2026 Annual Policy Dialogues.
GPI will feature at the 2026 Annual Policy Dialogues.
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It has to be about more than just one man(delson). The point cannot only be the end of the career of the individual, Mandelson. This (tenth?) scandal has exposed not just Mandelson (and not even just Mandelson’s political and power-broker circle) but Mandelson-ism.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM
It has to be about more than just one man(delson). The point cannot only be the end of the career of the individual, Mandelson. This (tenth?) scandal has exposed not just Mandelson (and not even just Mandelson’s political and power-broker circle) but Mandelson-ism.
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The celebration of the fusion of unrestrained wealth and unaccountable political power was previously and needs again to be taboo because it is not only morally obscene but dangerous to democracy and to the well-being and safety of us all.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM
The celebration of the fusion of unrestrained wealth and unaccountable political power was previously and needs again to be taboo because it is not only morally obscene but dangerous to democracy and to the well-being and safety of us all.
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His friends throwing him overboard but retaining their system would be no victory for us. But us harnessing this moment to end politics’ inebriation with wealth? That would indeed be, well, priceless.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM
His friends throwing him overboard but retaining their system would be no victory for us. But us harnessing this moment to end politics’ inebriation with wealth? That would indeed be, well, priceless.
His friends throwing him overboard but retaining their system would be no victory for us. But us harnessing this moment to end politics’ inebriation with wealth? That would indeed be, well, priceless.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM
His friends throwing him overboard but retaining their system would be no victory for us. But us harnessing this moment to end politics’ inebriation with wealth? That would indeed be, well, priceless.
The celebration of the fusion of unrestrained wealth and unaccountable political power was previously and needs again to be taboo because it is not only morally obscene but dangerous to democracy and to the well-being and safety of us all.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM
The celebration of the fusion of unrestrained wealth and unaccountable political power was previously and needs again to be taboo because it is not only morally obscene but dangerous to democracy and to the well-being and safety of us all.