What a great loss - such an influential, persuasive, informed - and amazingly generous - man
26.07.2025 09:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
David Boyle obituary
Political economist and author who promoted ideas such as time banks and community sharing
What very sad news, and what an enormous loss to all those thinking creatively about our current challenges. His voice, and his challenge, will be sorely missed www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
18.07.2025 08:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A lovely thoughtful mediation on the very long tail of grief
12.07.2025 09:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Proud of this from the great actor (and my old friend) Simon Russell Beale.
05.07.2025 10:35 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
I couldn't miss the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern
And 30 years on it's time to make my late partner a panel
Read this beautiful tribute and reflection on the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt by @chriscreegan.bsky.socialβ¬.
The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century.Β
17.06.2025 10:42 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Such terribly sad news - she will be sorely missed
05.06.2025 13:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A must read on a subject too often under explored. Powered by love, based on the strongest evidence, drawing widely from every discipline - a book that will inform us all for decades to come. But it is also a joy to read Proud of my brother @stephenunwin.bsky.social
05.06.2025 09:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us in York with our friends @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wed 28 May for a special event to celebrate the launch of Finding Belle by Reeta Chakrabarti
The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
and tickets are #FREE but must be booked
www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...
20.05.2025 17:19 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
This is excellent and develops quite a few of the ideas we promoted in #CivilSocietyFutures especially about the power of place
26.05.2025 11:02 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Kindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy - Carnegie UK
@doctoroxford.com you might be interested in this. I argued that kindness is radical, tough and rooted in solidarity. How depressing that #bekind is now deployed to ignore the fundamental power of recognising that emotions are the heart of public policy change carnegieuk.org/publication/...
18.05.2025 18:20 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs a great book deserving even more coverage
10.05.2025 08:26 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
This will be brilliant. So sorry to be missing it
09.05.2025 10:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
What a wonderful profile celebrating so much that youβve achieved - and so much that you will still do
30.04.2025 15:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Gemma Cassells will present "Data Are Plural: So Are the People Who Make It Matter. This talk invites us to move beyond the idea of data as a single source of truth and embrace it as a human-centred, collaborative tool for real-world change.
π Register bit.ly/3DXfMbZ
15.04.2025 14:09 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Really proud that Fall of Civilizations came in at number 6 on the Sunday Times bestseller list today!
Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered and helped spread the word.
13.04.2025 11:03 β π 204 π 17 π¬ 13 π 2
So well deserved!
15.04.2025 13:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Fall of Civilizations - Hatchards Piccadilly
Join Paul Cooper to discuss his new book βThe Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Declineβ in conversation with Hetta Howes.
I'm going to be at Hatchards bookshop tomorrow in London, talking about the release of the Fall of Civilizations book. Come join me!
Date: 10 apr β’ 18:30
Location: 187 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LE
09.04.2025 17:56 β π 27 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Very excited to announce that Fall of Civilizations has been named a "Book of the month" by Blackwell's bookshop.
Just a short thank you video to everyone who has helped make this possible.
Pre-order your copy if you haven't already: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
01.04.2025 12:08 β π 71 π 7 π¬ 6 π 2
If I can interrupt, Iβd also say that in the #civilsocietyfutures work we found lots of people saying that meeting spaces were now effectively segregated by age/ class etc as much as by money.
28.03.2025 15:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
So very sorry not to be joining you this year
28.03.2025 07:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Happening tomorrow!
@annieknk.bsky.social joins us for a Digital Sawyer Seminar:
π 9β10:30 AM ET | Zoom
ποΈ From Mancaves to Mainstream: The Evolution of the Manosphere
Free & open to all β register here: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Supported by the Mellon Foundationβs Sawyer Seminar Program.
24.03.2025 13:40 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
This is so so true. The community building. The creation of connection. The strengthening of trust. No matter whether they are about housing cats or documenting local history- charities ALWAYS create additional social value.
21.03.2025 10:54 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
This is such an important thread. At its best vibrant civil society is the glue in our fragile world, the social infrastructure, and describing it as a series of services is misleading, and completely misses the point.
21.03.2025 10:28 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Spot on, Helen. Government has considerable power (both soft and otherwise) to change employer behaviour. This would have been an opportunity - but it would also have required a clear eyed view about the Labour market. Easier to ignore?
18.03.2025 18:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Global Healthcare Services Manager @ Hyland | Passionate about healthcare, digital health, AI & cloud | BSc, PRINCE2, MSP, L6Ο Green Belt | Opinions are my own | https://linktr.ee/paulcochrane
CEO Energy UK - and also on the Board of Green Alliance & EVA England. Came here for the energy chat....
Dad of four; London-Irish turned northerner; Arsenal fan; professor of political philosophy at the University of York; trustee at the Democracy Collaborative. Writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice.
That annoying, monotone chef from various other platforms. Yup, itβs me.
Writer. Prof. Teacher. Director of UL's MA in Creative Writing (full time and part time versions) and of UL's CW Winter School. Author of seven novels, (also short stories and some poetry). Recent winner of The London Magazine prize for short fiction.
Author of βThe Business of Historyβ. Academic (Responsible Business), novelist, playwright, activist, Bees season ticket holder, Co-founder Fair for You and former Labour MP
Centre for Thriving Places is a place-based not-for-profit consultancy offering strategic support, research, training and tools that help put the wellbeing of people, place and planet centre stage.
CEO at The Robertson Trust, an independent funder for Scotland on Poverty and Trauma. Also on LinkedIn. No longer on the site known for tweets. All things solving poverty. Likes: walks by water, music, film, Morton FC. In Glasgow, born Dublin. Joined 08/24
Clinical psychologist in an acute hospital.
NHS. Person-centred care.
Relationships & dialogue in healthcare.
Health creation.
I'm a dad. Identical twinsπ€π€
Living in Bristol
#SpacesForListening
Social policy researcher (though sometimes pretends to be a philosopher), Prof co-leading WelfareExperiences project and kcl.ac.uk/csmh work & welfare strand. Was at @BenBaumberg at the other place.
Historian, Educator, Yorkshire Woman, Dog Lover.
Head of Teaching and Learning Enhancement at York St John University
Chair Scottish Sentencing Commission.
https://www.gov.scot/groups/sentencing-and-penal-policy-commission/
Working in policy. Interested in employment, inclusive growth, technical and vocational education, the future of work, etc.
Director at National Audit Office (https://bsky.app/profile/nao.org.uk)
- value for money and improving public services. Transport, knowledge sharing and strategy
Cities, education & big transitions | Public sector change @ Third Story | Climate action @ Dark Matter Labs | previously @ Innovation Unit |Retweets provocations, views my own
External Affairs Officer - Power to Change
https://www.powertochange.org.uk/
Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian. Staggeringly conventional social democrat.
Rockingham resident. Catholic. Pilgrim. Knitter. Interested in housing/planning, theology, walking pilgrimages.
Associate Professor in Children, Young People, and Education, York St John University. Democratic and participatory methodologies. Currently researching school toilets. WIASN. UNISON.Mum, open water swimmer, dabbles with art.
