Toby Johnson

Two FCA studies show promising patterns for co-op support It’s great that the British authority regulating the social economy, or at least co-ops – the somewhat misleadingly named Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – has commissioned 2 reports on the treas…

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Social enterprises have the best "story" because they are engaged not just in production and sales, but in the impact those sales have.

Why the Co-operative party is Labour’s best shot at stopp... Longtime Labour ally the Co-op party believes community empowerment can counter the populism of Nigel Farage’s party

Let's hear it for co-ops! observer.co.uk/news/politic...

For Europe Day, let's build a Europe we want. A set of 12 emojis, representing the European flag stars on a blue background. The emojis are a dove, a rainbow, a farmer, a recycling icon, a wolf, a gay couple, a sunflower, a train, a leefy green, the sun, an artist, a cyclist.

Inside the twelve stars of the European flag, the text says: For a stronger, greener, more united and more democratic europe.

🇪🇺 The European project was, and still is, the greatest antidote to nationalism and tyranny that our continent ever created.
Never have we needed it more.

Now, it is our turn to resist and take this peace project further. Stronger, greener, more united and more democratic.

A View from Airstrip One – part 5 – On Paralysis When you look at the big picture, humanity is seriously stuck. Large segments are addicted to the consumption of ever more stuff; poorer nations envy us and aspire to the same; the end result is gl…

This short sequence of blog entries hits several nails bang on the head - well worth a look. litgaz.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/a...

Congrats Richard!

Non-spoiler alert: What a cheat - I never did find out what a spalage was.

John Gallagher · What a spalage! Mis languages est bons With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had...

‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’

John Gallagher (@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social) on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you want more money, try a wealth tax.

Business may be commenting against the uncertainty, but it is said that financiers love it.

Why doesn't Bluesky upload my posts?

"A romantic getaway in Antwerp" - such is the title of an optimistic e-mail I have just received from Brussels Airport. Antwerp is exceedingly interesting, true, but...

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Ah, if only we hadn't had to go on a wild goose chase to the passport office in Liverpool we might have made it too!

It had to happen. Having spent an agonising week including a trip to Liverpool to replace my lost passport, I have just found my old one - safe and sound in the door pocket of the car of course.

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LDnet Webinar - Citizen participation: From Sherry Arnstein’s ladder to Co-everything, Tue 21 Jan, 17:00 GMT - events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d491e6...

It's working - my friends total has more than doubled to 7 in only a few days! You can see the exponentiality developing. Keep it up everybody...

'fietsstraten' would be more elegant

Dedicated cycle paths are excellent. I wonder how I have survived into my 70s when I used to cycle to school and work on ordinary mixed-use roads, mixing it with motorised traffic. Top tip: car drivers need to slow down, basically.

I'm optimistic that Bluesky is going to be the one. Mind you I can still remember Facebook when it was warm and fluffy - whereas nowadays it is a rare exception when I recognise anyone. 10 days after joining Buesky I have 3 friends but am hoping this grows exponentially, like it didn't on Mastodon.

Oh, that's exactly what I was looking for! Why is he so secretive I wonder?