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Sep 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
NEWS! I'm so honoured to be guest editor of this week's The Big Issue, UK's wonderful street newspaper. Theme: CYNICISM IS OUT, HOPE IS IN. On the cover: exclusive illustration by the great @charliemackesy! /1 Image
We've got brilliant pieces by @helenlewis and @NesrineMalik on activism and social change. I've interviewed filmmaker Richard Curtis (Love Actually, About Time, etc) about his films, activism and how he's being radicalised by his kids. (Teaser: bigissue.com/latest/richard…) /2
Here's a short version of my own essay about the jaw-dropping generational shift we're seeing right now. If you were young in the 1990s, it was avant-garde to be cynical and nihilistic. Nowadays, activism is the new realism.
bigissue.com/latest/rutger-… /3
Of course we have a piece on the power of universal basic income, or in this case: giving cash to homeless people. An interview with Claire Williams, who's doing an extraordinary experiment in Vancouver with giving money to rough sleepers. /4
Long story short: buy as many copies as you can for everyone you know. Buy from one of the 2,000+ street vendors for just £3, or subscribe, or buy it (if you're not in the UK) in the Big Issue App - you don't want to miss this :)
bigissue.com/magazines/rutg… /5 [the end]

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May 8
Some disasters don't make the news, because they happen every single day. We've become accustomed to these catastrophes, even though they're often (much) worse than even the worst news on the front pages.

Case in point: the tobacco industry. /1
Imagine reading the following news item: 'Jumbo Jet crashes on runway, no survivors'. And imagine that half an hour later the same news item appears - 'Another Boeing 747 crashes, again no survivors' - and thirty minutes later again. /2
Then assume that this nightmare continues all day and night, and that eventually more than fifty planes crash in 24 hours. Finally, imagine that it goes on like this all year long.

That's how many deaths the tobacco industry causes. /3 Image
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Oct 23, 2023
Who are the real wealth creators? The bankers, the corporate lawyers, the marketeers and the CEO's? Or the teachers, nurses, garbage collectors, plumbers, cleaners, care workers, etc.?
Most of the time, wealth isn't created at the top. It's merely devoured there. A huge share of those we hail as “successful” and “innovative” are earning their wealth at the expense of others.
The people getting the biggest handouts are not down around the bottom, but at the very top.
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Sep 6, 2023
This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person. 🧵👇 Image
Let that sink in: $8,277 is more than the value of the cash transfers ($7,500), which means the transfers paid for themselves. It's literally free money.
I find it difficult to exaggerate the implications of this finding. It could revolutionize how we deal with endemic problems like poverty and homelessness. It turns out that, all along, we've had a super effective medicine. It's called 'money'.
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Aug 29, 2023
Dear @richardbranson, thanks for your kind words about my book 'Humankind'. I'm happy to hear that the hopeful message resonates with you. If you really want to take the book's message to heart, here's my suggestion... 🧵👇
/1virgin.com/branson-family…
... stop avoiding your taxes?

I know you've said that you live on your private island in the Caribbean for 'health reasons'. But the British Virgin Islands also happens to be a notorious tax paradise for the super wealthy, with no income tax and no wealth tax. /2 Image
I know you've said you don't mind paying taxes, but recent court filings tell a different story. Your CEO Josh Bayliss wrote in an internal email in April 2020: 'Richard cannot escape the criticism. The truth is he has paid as little tax as possible.'

/3reuters.com/markets/branso…
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Aug 7, 2023
This is the story of one of the most inspiring schools on the planet. It's sometimes described as the 'Hogwarts for do-gooders', and when I visited the school in March of this year, I was absolutely blown away. 🧵👇 Image
You'll find the school on a busy street in west London, in the Kilburn district, opposite a yoga studio and a car garage. At number 253, you'll see a sign that says: Charity Entrepreneurship (CE). /2
Let me start with the school's study guide, because it's easy to summarize. Charity Entrepreneurship is a school for VERY ambitious and VERY idealistic entrepreneurs. /3
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May 25, 2023
Wow, this is such a wonderful project! Every week since August 2020, the folks at @future_crunch have featured one story of someone who is making the world a (much) better place. /1
futurecrunch.com/humankind-what…
'What would it be like,' they wondered, 'to roll back the red carpet and pay less attention to people with great hair, and more to those who are making things better?'
People who work under the rader, sometimes for decades, without a film crew, hashtag or sponsorship deal. /2
Think about a janitor in Florida who cooked a thousand meals a week for the homeless, a Nepalese sherpa who bought groceries for the unemployed, grandparents in India who created a pavement school for kids who couldn’t access online classes - and so, so much more. /3
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