Cornucopist
@cornucopist.bsky.social
Writer and humanitarian. Optimistic realist. When you sleep you wake up eventually. Politics, philosophy, humanism, books, photography, history, football, post-punk. And cats of course.
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Cornucopist
@cornucopist.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Morning! Final postcard of the River Tweed from my week away. If you haven’t been to the Scottish Borders, do go. So much to enjoy. Finished writing my book so now for the hard part.
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We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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And if the "strategy" is to force a choice between Labour and Reform based on voter allergy to Reform policies, why the Hell would you choose to adopt Reform's policies yourselves?! Modern politics is a war of values and Labour has chosen the same side as Farage.
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
And if the "strategy" is to force a choice between Labour and Reform based on voter allergy to Reform policies, why the Hell would you choose to adopt Reform's policies yourselves?! Modern politics is a war of values and Labour has chosen the same side as Farage.
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Apparently, Tory, Labour and Reform politics is now just about competing to see who can appease the most repulsive racists and grift most effectively for foreign billionaire fascists. They all need to go.
#VoteGreen
#VoteGreen
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Apparently, Tory, Labour and Reform politics is now just about competing to see who can appease the most repulsive racists and grift most effectively for foreign billionaire fascists. They all need to go.
#VoteGreen
#VoteGreen
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If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?
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Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the EU in 2020. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Post-Brexit record in Irish passport applications from UK
Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the EU in 2020. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
No progressive can vote Labour anymore. Think how many people with settled status, naturalisation, refugee parents and grandparents must feel at this. It’s more than just today’s and tomorrow’s refugees. This is two fingers at millions of British citizens. It creates even more polarisation. Horrible
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
No progressive can vote Labour anymore. Think how many people with settled status, naturalisation, refugee parents and grandparents must feel at this. It’s more than just today’s and tomorrow’s refugees. This is two fingers at millions of British citizens. It creates even more polarisation. Horrible
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
“In 1789, liberty meant freedom from tyranny; in 1989, freedom from ideology. In 2025, perhaps liberty means freedom from mediation – the right to reality unfiltered, to meaning unbranded, to truth unscrolled. Down with the feed. Long live the world.”
open.substack.com/pub/hardbook...
open.substack.com/pub/hardbook...
Notes on a New Camp #2 via the pain of others
And Das Capital taking us home to Selfie HQ
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“In 1789, liberty meant freedom from tyranny; in 1989, freedom from ideology. In 2025, perhaps liberty means freedom from mediation – the right to reality unfiltered, to meaning unbranded, to truth unscrolled. Down with the feed. Long live the world.”
open.substack.com/pub/hardbook...
open.substack.com/pub/hardbook...
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A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer
Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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So Wes Streeting allies want him to become Prime Minister - for the Labour Government to tank even faster.
We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now.
Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now.
Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So Wes Streeting allies want him to become Prime Minister - for the Labour Government to tank even faster.
We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now.
Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now.
Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Morning! Today is a blank canvas. Looking forward to painting it.
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Morning! Today is a blank canvas. Looking forward to painting it.
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This is great advice.
Not just for kids.
Not just for football.
For everyone.
For life.
Not just for kids.
Not just for football.
For everyone.
For life.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is great advice.
Not just for kids.
Not just for football.
For everyone.
For life.
Not just for kids.
Not just for football.
For everyone.
For life.
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I suppose there would be a certain ironic elegance if the thing that seals the fate of a Labour government whose path to power began with a Tory Chancellor triggering a bond market crash is a Labour chancellor triggering another bond market crash.
*UK GILTS PLUNGE AT OPEN, 10-YEAR YIELD CLIMBS 13 BPS TO 4.57%
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I suppose there would be a certain ironic elegance if the thing that seals the fate of a Labour government whose path to power began with a Tory Chancellor triggering a bond market crash is a Labour chancellor triggering another bond market crash.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions.
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions.
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So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests.
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know…
Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about who is behind the scenes. B...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests.
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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How did those presenters keep a straight face
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
How did those presenters keep a straight face