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Eddy Canfor-Dumas

@ec-d.bsky.social
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Co-founder of The Centre for Creative Conversation creativeconversation.org, Co-author of 'The Talking Revolution', Green Party ADRC, @samaritans.bsky.social, Woodland Trust.

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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-...
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On death and dying and climate change
Does humanity have a deathwish? Global CO2 emissions are rising to record levels when they should be in steep decline. Dire warnings from the IPCC and UN come and go with a momentary ripple in the med...
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 17h
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/gre...
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Almost everyone is wrong about Zionism and anti-Zionism
The Green party's move to equate Zionism with racism ignores the complexity of the term
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 17h
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/gre...
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Almost everyone is wrong about Zionism and anti-Zionism
The Green party's move to equate Zionism with racism ignores the complexity of the term
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 18h
Indeed, the proposers of the motion 1. Refused mediation with Jewish Greens (you can see published correspondence here) greens4palestine.uk/press/publis... 2. Asked their supporters to vote down any amendments which would have done what Jonathan asked
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 19h
Sorry, Ed - word salad. Let's compare notes in twelve months time and see where the GPEW is then.
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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · 22h
A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention. Just out — my long read on European governments waking up to the threat of a possible collapse of the AMOC, the ocean currents that keep our continent's climate mild: www.politico.eu/article/clim...
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A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 22h
Damage control.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 22h
Well, that’s precisely the question. How is this going to help? The Party’s previous position was extremely robust and this has now shot us in the foot.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 23h
Dividing the Party is a price worth paying?
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-...
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On death and dying and climate change
Does humanity have a deathwish? Global CO2 emissions are rising to record levels when they should be in steep decline. Dire warnings from the IPCC and UN come and go with a momentary ripple in the med...
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Desperately trying to change the subject…
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Too little, too late, Caroline. The brand has been trashed.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/10/2026
Antarctica is going to lose ice this century, even if the world hits its most ambitious climate goals. Why that matters to you: Melting Antarctic ice will substantially raise sea levels, increasing the risk of flooding for millions of people in coastal communities.
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Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere
The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What if fiscal headroom doesn't exist? youtu.be/Xp-pnyJU_n4?... In the run-up to the Budget, there is going to be a lot of talk about fiscal headroom, but the reality is that this is just a figment of a Chancellor's imagination, just as fiscal rules are.
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What if fiscal headroom doesn't exist?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@chrisgrey.bsky.social has got it right – unless there is a settled pro-EU consensus across the main political parties (minimum) the EU won’t take seriously any approach by a UK government.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Grey has got it right – unless there is a settled pro-EU consensus across the main political parties (minimum) the EU won’t take seriously any approach by a UK government.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The investigation hasn’t yet begun into the relationship between Man City and the local government – Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the Mayor’s Office. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, that’s precisely the point, isn’t it? Not caring about the source of money can get you into all sorts of bother – especially if you’re a high profile politician…
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: 365 million Hiroshimas. "The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth."
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026
Good to see everyone is focused on the right things
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve been wondering about this. If a rescue consortium takes over or re-forms the club, presumably they would have to accept any punishment the (new) club is given? @davidallengreen.bsky.social
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And yet there are c. 3000 food banks in the UK now, an embedded feature of our economic and social fabric that didn’t exist before 1994. Can anyone explain that paradox?
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frapacioli.bsky.social @frapacioli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As the Labour Conference grinds on and the next neoliberal Budget approaches, your regular reminder. frapacioli.substack.com/p/fiscal-rul...
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Fiscal Rules Are for Sensible Fools
Fiscal rules are political theatre. They’re announced as financial disciplines, evidence that the grown-ups are in charge – but gamed when inconvenient and abandoned when reality intrudes.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Destroyed? Eh?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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frapacioli.bsky.social @frapacioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dear God. We might as well be back in 2010-15 with Osborne at the Treasury – and that went well, didn’t it?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
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Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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frapacioli.bsky.social @frapacioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This really is a no-brainer. And the failure of successive Chancellors to end it shows the timidity of elected politicians when dealing with money men – at the Bank of England, the Treasury and ‘the markets’. Dire.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I remember the winter of 1963 - bloke up a ladder trying to melt the ice on a drainpipe, six inches thick, with a blow-torch.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Ever feel you’ve been cheated? Consequences could be profound after Manchester City guilty verdict | Jonathan Wilson
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Ever feel you’ve been cheated? Consequences could be profound after Manchester City guilty verdict | Jonathan Wilson
The Premier League could be hit hard by the aftermath of this case, while Manchester City fans may know they took 30 years to recover from a guilty verdict of illegal payments in 1906
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
London investment bankers, lawyers, accountants make £1.2bn from takeover frenzy. Everything for sale in slicing/dicing, asset stripping bazaars. Anyone focused on the long term? UK has been at/near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets for 30 yrs.
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London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy
Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An excellent new video with Benedict Cumberbatch explaining how we can sustainably live on Earth. Already in the first 6 minutes we see the devastating effects on farming from pesticide use since the 1980s: we now have to hand pollinate crops because the bees are gone.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here we go again. Have the neoliberals learned nothing since 2010? Meanwhile, the doom loop continues.
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frapacioli.bsky.social @frapacioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The two most divisive words in UK politics
The idea of ‘taxpayers’ money’ has poisoned the well of political debate for almost half a century.
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A nursing home boss stole his workers' Social Security and Medicare money. He got 18 months and $4.4M restitution. A Mar-a-Lago dinner erased it. If pardons go to whoever can afford a plate, workers get robbed twice: once by him, once by the system. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Speaking of misunderstanding basic systems… frapacioli.substack.com/p/the-self-f...
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The Self-Financing State
A Layperson's Summary
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Bye-bye OBR, hello OER
It’s time to replace the Office for Budget Responsibility with something better – an Office for Economic Responsibility.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks. Doesn’t seem to make sense in this context but 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Literally EVERYONE in the UK should read this – but I suspect <0.01% of the population (if that) actually will.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is ‘ratioed’?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THIS is why the COP process has long been completely unfit for purpose, and why IPCC report findings must be considered very carefully indeed www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well. As someone who was there (in my teens) I can testify to it being quite a blast.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You and Blanche Dubois.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shurely u mean ‘Thank you for your attention to this matter’? PS I am a pedant aka ‘Accuracy is very important’ aka AIVI
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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