How do Rupert Murdoch and Viscount Rothermere brainwash Britain?
Through pluralistic ignorance.
Their papers convince you ordinary people hate immigrants, climate action and wealth taxes.
In reality, huge majorities of Brits support all three.
They need you to feel alone. You aren’t.
Roy Hattersley persuaded the Labour Party to back multilateral disarmement instead of unilateral.
Hattersley died yesterday. Multilateral disarmement has been dying a slow death since 1996.
If we want a world without weapons of mass destruction, someone must take the lead.
In 2009, a surfer called Max Tattenbach promised his girlfriend he would plant trees on a Costa Rican beach made shadeless and barren by years of cattle farming.
100,000 trees later and the howler monkeys are back.
Another world is possible.
Bill Wilson tried psychiatry. Religion. Willpower. Nothing worked.
Then a stranger shared his story in a hotel room - and something shifted.
Alcoholics Anonymous - 90 years old today - now helps millions, not through therapy or drugs, but through radical honesty in community.
"The West no longer has the moral ground in the Middle East in the way it once did." - Sherard Cowper-Coles, ex UK ambassador to Israel, said that because of Palestine. And he said it 15 years ago.
Spain has bus stops that stay cool with zero electricity. Porous clay walls absorb rainwater then slowly release it as temperatures rise, chilling the air. It's how people in hot countries have cooled buildings forever. You can do it at home by watering plants in terracotta pots.
Sweden taxes income up to 57%. It taxes wealth/inheritance/gifts at zero. One family - the Wallenbergs - owns 40% of the stock market, a dynasty dating to the 1850s. Profits go into a foundation that funds science. So the rich can avoid wealth taxes - by giving their money away.
Nasser arrived in the UK from Sudan at 16, alone. Three years later, he’s a qualified FA referee who officiated a match at Portman Road while studying for his GCSEs and training to become an engineer.
What a gift to the UK.
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Once again Golding is proven wrong.
Hollywood taught us that when disaster strikes, humans turn on each other. That civilisation is just a thin veneer over our true, savage nature.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social spent years studying actual disasters. She found the opposite.
People turn to each other.
Communities stand together.
