Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality – while Bregman’s nuggets of wisdom are a joy
Bicycling Dutch historian Rut…
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman ⊖
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn…
59 days ago
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say? ○
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away, it has become the go-…
3 months ago
Doomscrolling, people pleasing and low-fat foods? Life’s too short! Nine writers on what they won’t bother with this year ⊖
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Rutger Bregman, Josie Long, Michael Rosen, Meera Sodha and others on what they are no longer wasting their time on
Rutger Bregman, author
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BBC accused of 'censorship' by left-wing author after removing criticism of Donald Trump from flagship lecture series ⊖
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Rutger Bregman (pictured) claimed that a 'decision had been taken at the highest levels' of the BBC to remove his allegation that Mr Trump is 'the most openly corrupt president in American history'.
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump ⊖
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Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
The BBC has been plunged into a new row over its treatment of Donald Trump, after an aca…
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: More proof the biased BBC needs radical change to survive ⊖
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MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: What, in 2025, can have possessed the BBC's Reith lectures sponsors to choose the Dutch academic Rutger Bregman, 37, to deliver a talk
White House fury at Trump 'monster' jibe in showpiece BBC lecture: US President 'dubbed a fascist' during flagship speech commissioned by broadcaster ⊖
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The BBC commissioned Dutch author Rutger Bregman to deliver its flagship annual lectures. Bregman used the events to compare Trump's America and the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
9 months ago
My perfect holiday reading, by Bernardine Evaristo, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith and more ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Authors including Michael Rosen, Samantha Harvey and Rutger Bregman reveal their books of the summer
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now
The 10 best audiobooks for summer
Zadie Smith
For me …
11 months ago
Why you should quit your job and change the world – podcast ○
The historian Rutger Bregman makes the case for why corporate high flyers should quit their jobs to pursue something more meaningful
“Moral ambition is the desire to stand on the right side of history…