Ben Phillips

Ben Phillips is an advisor to the United Nations, governments and civil society organisations, was Campaigns Director for Oxfam and for ActionAid, and co-founded the Fight Inequality Alliance. He tweets at benphillips76
You’re Not Being Bold Enough

You’re Not Being Bold Enough

You're not being bold enough. I don't mean that you should be going out. Stay at home, covidiots! I'm writing this from home in Italy - and just as it is said...

Meeting Martin McGuinness

"Ben, Martin, I have to introduce you to each other," said an Irish writer who knew us both. It was Dublin March 2016, and we were there to commemorate...

After Brexit. Time to organise.

Britain has brexited. What next? The pound and the PM are freefalling, but that's not the big thing even now. The big thing is the rejection of almost the...

Jo Cox, brilliance, and kindness.

Many are, undertandably, asking what are the lessons of Jo's death. But those who had the privilege of working with Jo feel too raw to answer that. Instead,...

Life in a Town called Coal

The Town called Coal In the town centre the austere concrete municipal building is still inscribed with the old Apartheid-era name name Witbank, but the town...

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If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad?  No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...