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

🇪🇺 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.

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!

‘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.

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?

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.

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.