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2012 was a year of teamwork, sport and a renewed confidence that the country can pull together. It is perhaps appropriate then that the year was also designated by the United Nations, for the first time, as the International Year of Co-operatives.

It is, now we have finished, a fascinating case study, somewhat removed from run of the mill topic of business marketing. After all, when the United Nations names a year in your honour, what impact does that have?

Ed Mayo talks about his role in the upcoming #labourconsumer investigation.

I have contributed a blog on fair trade and co-ops for the Fairtrade Foundation – ‘Can we build a co-operative economy?’

Plan C for the British economy is about a radical dose of democracy for the economy, spreading ownership and giving the people involved in a business the right to benefit from its success.

We are running an online panel with the Guardian on Thursday January 12th on the question of ‘can co-operation rebuild British business?’

Many years ago, we made a big step forward in the campaign on international debt when the Pope signed up, opening the way for Catholic churches around the world to come behind the Jubilee campaign.

Bono made it a meeting to remember when he handed the leader of the catholic faith worldwide his own sunglasses to wear, praising him as a funky Pope.