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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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Nov 25
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.

Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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Sep 16
NEW STUDY: A bold cash transfer experiment in Flint, Michigan is showing extraordinary results for babies’ health.

Giving every pregnant woman $1,500 + $500/mo after birth cut preterm births & NICU stays, saving more in healthcare costs than the program spent! Image
In 2024, 'Rx Kids' began giving every expectant mother unconditional cash during pregnancy & infancy. No means testing, truly universal.

Before Rx Kids, Flint had some of the highest risks in the state:
▪️ 15% of births were preterm
▪️ 16% were low birthweight
After Rx Kids launched, researchers compared Flint to matched cities. Results:

--> Preterm births fell by 18%
--> Low birthweight fell by 27%
--> NICU admissions fell by 29%

That’s a big public health impact.
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Sep 13
Devastating new investigation by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant: 15 international doctors report at least 114 Palestinian children with single gunshot wounds to head/chest—injuries forensic experts say are consistent with aimed fire.

(Photo: Mira, 4 years old) Image
Two independent forensic pathologists, asked to review images and X-rays, said the injuries were consistent with bullets (not shrapnel) and likely distance shots to head/neck with military ammunition. Image
'In all likelihood, these are distance shots aimed at the head and/or neck with military ammunition,’ says forensic pathologist Wim Van de Voorde, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven. Image
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Jul 29
The biggest problem in the world isn’t climate change, future pandemics, or democratic collapse.

It’s that far too many of our most brilliant minds are working on *everything but* those problems. 🧵
Millions of talented people end up in careers that don’t make the world better. Some even make it worse. Image
Take a place like Harvard. Every year, thousands of teenagers apply with essays about ending poverty or saving the planet.

Fast forward a few years… and nearly half go to McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, or Kirkland & Ellis. Image
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Jun 27
96 private jets full of corrupt elites and celebs flying into Venice, a city destroyed by tourism, to celebrate the wedding of the world’s most shameless tax dodger: Jeff Bezos.

Well, it's the perfect anecdote for future historians writing about this Second Gilded Age --> 🧵
The location is very fitting. The fall of the Republic of Venice is one of history’s most telling examples of how great civilizations can rot from within—not through external conquest, but through elite decadence and corruption.
At its peak, Venice was a marvel of commerce and innovation. A small city built on a lagoon had become a maritime empire, dominating Mediterranean trade routes for centuries.
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Jun 14
Yes, this is fascism.

For years, historians and experts were cautious about using the f-word to describe today's events. But that hesitation is gone now. 🧵 Image
This thread is a summary of this brilliant piece by my former colleague Rosan Smits. It went viral in the Netherlands—and you can read the English translation now -->
decorrespondent.nl/16177/this-is-…
Let's start with the experts. Robert Paxton, the world’s foremost scholar of fascism, long resisted calling Trump a fascist. But after January 6th, he changed his mind.

“It’s the real thing. It really is,” Paxton told The New York Times in the fall of 2024. Image
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