What's next for Weapons of Reason?
For six years we’ve explored the biggest global challenges. What did we learn, and what are we going to do next?
Six years of work in one five minute read 👉🏻
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Job alert!🔥We need a freelance junior editor for our newest publishing project, Need to Know. NtK is a knowledge and careers platform for 15-25 year olds, turning engagement with news media into positive action and careers advice. Interested? Apply here👉 https://t.co/2yj1R7RG1E
Looking for some new writers to work on a content series about information disruption (noise, complexity, misinfo, polarisation) for an upcoming @weaponsofreason content series. DM me with some clippings if you're interested and we haven't worked together before. PAID, of course.
#COP26 is here. It’s our chance to push for change and protect the climate. As a #BCorp, we wanted to do our bit to help businesses combat the climate crisis 🌏 So we created a guide to greener business 💚 — see it in action 👉 https://t.co/s4FBkDFC7O
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
We’ve taken action inside Parliament and at party HQs demanding politicians face up to the scale of the crisis and back the GND bill.
While MPs are on holiday the planet burns. No more empty words. No more excuses. We’re here to turn up the heat 🔥
This week's article: We sat down to chat with @jdmcartwright from @HumanAfterAll, editor of @weaponsofreason to discuss the ethos of the publication, the environment, food, family, social inequality and our resulting decision making for the future.
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Autonomous weapons are carving a new future of warfare. In Slaughterbots!, @brokenbottleboy exposes the cheap prices and lack of regulation allowing them to flood the weapons market. Illustrated by @timohmeyer, read it online here https://t.co/ffwvCbvEY8
The government’s new advice for clinically vulnerable people: avoid indoors and unvaccinated people all summer.
Disabled people are effectively being cut out of society. https://t.co/tVLGmTjFiJ
About to commission a new series of content on the media landscape: noise, complexity, misinformation and polarisation. If you haven't written for us before, but would like to, please drop us a line on [email protected]#journorequests
In Enter the Grey Zone, @sophstein lays bare the truth of cyberwarfare: it’s an everyday occurrence of psychological violence and covert advertising. Illustrated by @MikeLemanski, read the article from our final magazine issue on our Medium. Find it here: https://t.co/8zZFRTHqwM
The world is running out of water. But does water scarcity equal violence? @_kirawalker says no in Water Wars, from our final magazine issue. Read the article, illustrated by Alva Skog, now on our Medium https://t.co/X9hmCi59NA
Women are often excluded from rebuilding efforts after conflict — despite being especially affected by war. In Out of the Ashes, Aarathi Prasad and illustrator Rose Wong show how women are a pillar of post-conflict reconstruction. Read the piece online 👇https://t.co/Jo1J2JxuxF
The UK government has littered the asylum-seeking process with hurdles and pitfalls. Phoebe West explains how in Hostile Environment, illustrated by @Willoprojects. Read the article online here 👇https://t.co/tII650izdf
.@kieran_yates and illustrator @madeby_ari expose the damaging psychological and practical effects of Britain’s imperialist legacy in The Sun Never Sets. Read the article, with its matching illustrations, from our final mag issue on our Medium https://t.co/nuZtvbv8zC
This week's article: Humanity prospers at what cost? @jdmcartwright from @weaponsofreason invites us to consider our broader ecological influence on the planet, looking back to look forward and assess how advancement might be doing more harm than we know.
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The First Nation people in British Columbia are at war with exploitative oil companies, and at odds with each other over governance and leadership. Dave Robertson explores why in This Land is Their Land, illustrated by Adrian Johnson, now online 👇 https://t.co/DkoGxHSZdg
.@YiannisBab and illustrator James Graham confront the broken reality of heavily-militarised police in Army Surplus. The article, from our eighth and final magazine issue, is up and available to read on our Medium 👇https://t.co/TtGIwqmM4Q
The last copies of our book Weapons of Reason, and issues seven and eight of our magazine, are available to buy from our website 📚 Head here to get reading 👉 https://t.co/QQ8fdz7gHX