Eddy Canfor-Dumas
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas
@ec-d.bsky.social
Co-founder of The Centre for Creative Conversation creativeconversation.org Co-author of 'The Talking Revolution', civilian lead MCDC’s ‘Understand to Prevent’. @samaritans.bsky.social #MMT
‘I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC.’
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It’s good stuff! I’m enjoying the plain speaking. And would be interested in your thoughts on Arnold Toynbee’s analysis of the rise and fall of civilisations.
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I wonder how much of Labour’s antisemitism under Corbyn came from abroad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Here’s The S*n’s pathetic, microscopic apology for one of the biggest lies in modern British politics - the “benefits tourism” fairy tale that conned millions and helped drag us into Brexit. They poison democracy with front-page lies, then whisper “sorry” in tiny print.
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So the question - as I understand it - is how best to use them to manage risk while also unlocking policy choices.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I agree that discipline matters. And I’m not denying constraints, only suggesting they’re rooted in inflation and real resource capacity rather than access to bond finance itself. Bond markets are tools that must be managed carefully, not sources of funding in a strict operational sense.
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The bond markets are very important for managing the government’s and the country’s finances. But as seen with QE and furlough during the pandemic, the government can create as much money as it (thinks it) needs whenever it chooses.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It means that the Bank routinely intervenes in the bond markets to stabilise interest rates – e.g. after the Truss debacle – and that it doesn’t actually rely on the bond markets for money. Bonds are a savings offer and for wider financial management.
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Who is stronger – the bond markets or the BoE?
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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FROM WAR-WAR TO JAW-JAW: Meet Ian Rigden, the former British Army General now training mediators from around the world.
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills with impunity – ceasefire or no ceasefire.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel kills top Hezbollah official in first attack on Beirut in months
Israel has escalated its campaign on targets it says are linked to Hezbollah, raising fears of a resumption of hostilities.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
And yet all is not lost. This could be exactly the liberation our climate struggle needs.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Something new and significant is arising from the broken mess of COP30. Will you support it?
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November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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'The religious city of Mashhad has entered full rationing, Nasrollah Pejmanfar, a lawmaker, said on Friday.

The city’s Dousti dam, he added, “has no water left to transfer, and the reservoirs supplying Mashhad have reached zero” '

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran’s deepening water crisis nears critical levels in major cities
Iran’s worsening drought has pushed water supplies in several provinces to critical levels, with officials in Tehran, Mashhad and Kerman warning that some reservoirs are close to the point where routi...
www.iranintl.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
He already knows all about MMT.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills with impunity – repeatedly.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The postwar economic consensus was sustained by a story of progress that aligned broadly with reality – till the wheels came off with the end of Bretton Woods/the 1973 Oil Shock. Thatcher & Co grabbed the chance to tell a new story that killed the postwar consensus and has dominated ever since.
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
…now is a third way that recognises the reality of government finances and reframes the balance between the state and the private sector/markets. In short, a new narrative that reflects current realities, not myths about the 1970s/80s.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Now the wheels are coming off that story - is there any more powerful indictment than 3,000+ food banks? - because it was founded on a falsehood: ‘There is no such thing as public money, there is only taxpayers’ money.’ As clearly shown by government action in 2007/8 and the pandemic. What we need
November 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM