Martyn Drake
@martyndrake.bsky.social
Works with some of the UKs most loved charities and social businesses. Consultant, coach, author of The Commercial Charity. www.binleydrake.com
It's that wonderful combination of availability bias and recency bias. It's been the same in the UK with benefit fraud (perceived 40+% actual 0.7%) immigrant crime (broadly similar stats), I could go on. The media, both mainstream and social, has an unimaginable influence.
September 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's that wonderful combination of availability bias and recency bias. It's been the same in the UK with benefit fraud (perceived 40+% actual 0.7%) immigrant crime (broadly similar stats), I could go on. The media, both mainstream and social, has an unimaginable influence.
If that weren't worrying enough, a more subtle effect is that your brain starts to position it as a trusted mentor, so when it tells you you're witty or well informed, you don't just accept it, you actually shift your mental model of yourself, and of the world around you, to fit.
September 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If that weren't worrying enough, a more subtle effect is that your brain starts to position it as a trusted mentor, so when it tells you you're witty or well informed, you don't just accept it, you actually shift your mental model of yourself, and of the world around you, to fit.
TL/DNR: Wedge-issue carnival barkers selling victimhood by the pound put on a dazzling show - just look at the size of this place!
Forget policies and practicalities (you'll get no clicks down that long-forgotten road).
Forget policies and practicalities (you'll get no clicks down that long-forgotten road).
September 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
TL/DNR: Wedge-issue carnival barkers selling victimhood by the pound put on a dazzling show - just look at the size of this place!
Forget policies and practicalities (you'll get no clicks down that long-forgotten road).
Forget policies and practicalities (you'll get no clicks down that long-forgotten road).