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Cornucopist

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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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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 52m

And where are the consequences for people like Gove who voted for it? Trying to make out he’s the wise observer afterwards is just gaslighting us.

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 3h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 2h

#Portugal #LocalElections #Autarqias

Good Analysis!

www.politico.eu/article/port...

Far right fizzles in Portugal’s local elections

Chega failed to conquer any major cities but is set to receive three times as many votes as in 2021.

www.politico.eu

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 4h

This is the man the BBC elevated & is refusing to investigate despite @carolecadwalla.bsky.social l & @bylinetimes.bsky.social
having done all the work for them .
Do we have a precedent for a this ? A national broadcaster ignoring possible treason , isn’t that in itself sort of treasonous 🥴 ?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 3h

It’s the same with Morrissey, Gaiman or Wagner but… the art can feel tainted and give rise to feelings of guilt about then and now. How much did it influence the art is the question I struggle with.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 3h

Maggie Thatcher's 100th birthday 🎂

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Mister E @daveevanschange.bsky.social · 5h

app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/71221/...
This is a must-read for anyone interested in politics (and the UK, particularly). The assertion that 'home is a place you understand and where you feel understood' is especially poignant in these times.
#Postliberalism #Radicalright

Liberalism in the end times

In an age of populist revolution and radical upheaval, can the centre left do anything more than survive?

app.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 8h

This conversation.

Thank you, #BBCWest / #BBCBristol - it's good to see you can still do it.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 5h

Life is a series of parallel worlds. I wake up each day wondering which one I’m in.

Mister E @daveevanschange.bsky.social · 5h

How many of us are maintaining awareness of all the stuff going on behind the scenes?- and who is trying to keep it in the public consciousness?
broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
#Farage

Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 5h

I think you’ll find it’s an ancient golfing term to warn others of your flying ball.

Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 23h

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 6h

You’re welcome!

Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 6h

Morning! Monday morning rush hour

Three ladybirds - two orange and one red - crawling along the edge of a black bin

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 6h

Took this yesterday - headless gull wings! #BirdOfTheDay

Swans and gulls on lake with one gull’s wings in flight

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 17h

It’s a perfect storm;

1. Defunded journalism creating a vacuum that is cheaply filled by unchallenged bias.
2. Algorithms promoting anger
3. New undetectable ways of buying political control
4. Electoral politics having no resilience to cope with this.

Unchecked, it ends in fascism. Not if. When.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 18h

An MP investigating claims of Russian interference in the Brexit vote has said the founder of Leave.EU must explain his contact with the country.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

2018

Leave.EU donor Arron Banks 'must explain Russia link'

It is reported that leave campaigner Arron Banks held undisclosed meetings with Russia in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 19h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 20h

I was there with my then girlfriend (now wife) along with about 5000 others. She wanted to know where the crowd was. We were 2-1 down with 20 minutes left and I think he scored two.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 23h

Stunning day by the lake 👌

Lake view framed by trees in Roundhay Park, Leeds

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

In the UK we have Keir -island of strangers- Starmer, whose government is driving right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker policies

In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is not only celebrating diversity, they're embracing and speaking positively about immigrants

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

Morning! Hard to believe I haven’t painted it but it’s definitely real 🍁

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