A very Greenbelt-y lineup for this Friday's Lyrical event at St Luke's in Holloway – including Iain Archer, Chris Read, Rhian Roberts, Maddy Napier, David Joey and @martinwroe.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/lyrical-10...

A huge thank you to The Independent for kicking off #RefugeeWeek with this incredibly generous support that will help us do even more for refugees and people seeking asylum across the UK 🧡

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If you're within striking distance of Holloway, north London this coming Friday, pretty good line up of poets and musicians for Lyrical. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyrical-li...

There are six job vacancies for young economists at the New Economics Foundation...If you're interested, apply here: neweconomics.org/about/work-w...

Last night I had the privilege of speaking at the New Economics Foundation's packed launch of a superb report : "A system that serves: rebuilding finance for the future." It was published by Triodos Bank and written by Hans Stegeman and his team. www.triodos.co.uk/press-releas...

'His faith gives him solace. Given his preoccupation with the worst of us, does he believe we're all born sinners? “There’s many degrees of sin and – it’s an archery term – it means falling short of a mark and all human beings do that.' www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

'...a person of faith may find it easier to embrace the mysteries of communal religious practice – the substitution of bits of the self and the other in holy communion, for example, or the putting of oneself in the place of the other as part of a calling.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Nigeria’s energy transition is accelerating, not cause of ideology, but because diesel dependence is becoming economically brutal. With 232M people, chronic blackouts & oil shocks hitting wallets, only solar + batteries make any sense. Pain is often the catalyst for disruption. #Bettrification

'His phrases continue to haunt the language: ‘from strength to strength’; ‘for better or worse’; ‘lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil’; ‘salt of the earth’ and ‘fight the good fight’.. medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'His phrases continue to haunt the language: ‘from strength to strength’; ‘for better or worse’; ‘lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil’; ‘salt of the earth’ and ‘fight the good fight’.. medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'We don’t notice change as it’s happening, it’s absorbed into the new normal. If the morning news is immediate and dramatic, history is often incremental and invisible. It happens on the quiet...' medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'On every occasion, when the negotiation was taking place, it would be the cleaners who would take the lead.' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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'We don’t notice change as it’s happening, it’s absorbed into the new normal. If the morning news is immediate and dramatic, history is often incremental and invisible. It happens on the quiet...' medium.com/@martinwroe/...

I'm incredibly proud to have edited the anthology 'Everyone Started Singing', with poems by established Irish poets & 1st-time writers - a wonderful legacy of my residency with Cork City Libraries. Pick up a free copy from the central library or available at Waterstones in Cork City.

'We need to bring wisdom back into the world... thoughtful ways of living your life, and understanding how to be in a community, and how to create a civilisation that has a future – for goodness’ sake! – and that is going somewhere instead of destroying itself.' www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

'The beginning there, a moment ago.' observer.co.uk/style/featur...

'Renewables have gone from generating 7% of electricity in 2010 to nearly 50%. Last year the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions hit their lowest point since 1872. Last month wind generation was up 38% on March 2025, saving £1bn worth of gas imports...' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.’ medium.com/@martinwroe/...

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles

Very sorry to hear of Andy Kershaw’s death today. He was always a unique radio voice with an infectious enthusiasm for World Music (though he probably hated that term). I shall listen the Bhundu Boys tonight in his honour.

‘You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.’ medium.com/@martinwroe/...

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Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…

'Labour created the national health service; now it is creating a clean, cheap, resilient energy regime, with the attendant industries. Just as Nye Bevan, architect of the NHS, was reviled by the rightwing establishment for his efforts, so today is Ed Miliband.' observer.co.uk/news/columni...

'It strikes me that I have been listening for more than two hours to a man who speaks kindly about others and believes we can do better. It takes me some time to recover.' www.ft.com/content/4c17...

"From fossil fragility to electric independence" "In the past, there were few alternatives to fossil fuel dependency. Now = electrotech: EVs, solar, wind, batteries, & heat pumps. Countries can affordably slash imported fuels across whole economy." www.electrotech-revolution.com/p/the-energy...

Much less windy today, so we won't hit anything like the 80% renewables generation we hit yesterday. Even so, it's not yet midday and solar is already the biggest source of electricity generation in the UK. Expect it to meet a third of our needs by early afternoon. grid.iamkate.com

'For Pakistan, and a lot of other countries, the energy transition towards renewables is no longer just about climate but it’s a matter of energy security...' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pia Sinha, the CEO of the Prison Reform Trust, compared the formation of the Women’s Justice Board to that of the Youth Justice Board in 1998, credited in part for vastly reducing the youth prison population in England & Wales, from 3,200 in 2008 to 445 in 2024. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

'What happens when we die? I have never been able to become an atheist and, even though I know it is completely irrational and cannot be backed up, I think when I die I’m going to glory.' www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘There is no such thing as the Christian view of sex.’ Diarmaid MacCulloch talking with @wmarybeard.bsky.social about his book 'Lower Than The Angels, A History of Sex and Christianity’ @unionchapeluk.bsky.social

Over here. Only Peter Case.

'Its bittersweet beauty lies in the wounded souls at the heart of it — broken by loss but woken by imagination.' medium.com/@martinwroe/...

‘It felt like the poem fell into my life at the point when I needed it…’ The brilliant Anthony Wilson opening this lovely programme about Poems On The Underground. He recalls how Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Words, Wide Night, met him on the Jubilee line. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'Its bittersweet beauty lies in the wounded souls at the heart of it — broken by loss but woken by imagination.' medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'Neoliberalism tells us that humans are selfish, self-centred individuals, and we can only survive by stepping on each other. Whereas I am saying exactly the opposite: we can only survive by seeing beauty in each other, and creating beauty together.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

'We are four people who have walked a long way together and now mostly walk apart. But a few times a year, we shoulder our packs, step on to a trail and remember how to move forward in the same direction.' www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

'This is the God shaped hole. A triangular connection. The deep connection to ourselves & our living bodies, to each other in a social & creative way, & perhaps something larger outside of us (the trees, the stars, the bigness of life), that singing in a group creates.' substack.com/home/post/p-...

“I’m voting for yourself because you took the last croissant at breakfast” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Pakistanis have put up so many solar panels that the Pakistani government last month cancelled 27 cargoloads full of liquefied natural gas from Qatar. It was cheaper to pay the penalty than import this gas they didn’t need, now they have solar panels.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Southgrove Road Carol Singing' by Beth Davies was a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network (YPN) in 2016. 🎄

'Only when you have the language for it can you imagine it. Only when you can imagine it can you know that it is real: the angel alight with glory walking among the shepherds half asleep in their watching...' www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

'I’m glad that the churches have stood up to show that the story of Christmas doesn’t belong to the far right, but the Christian Christmas they are protecting isn’t shared by very many these days...' Thanks @lzsl.bsky.social www.absurdintelligence.com/love-vs-the-...

'In some way the handwriter becomes incarnate in her letter — not least because she has taken so much longer over it...' On handwriting and Christmas cards, for BBC Radio 4. medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'In some way the handwriter becomes incarnate in her letter — not least because she has taken so much longer over it...' On handwriting and Christmas cards, for BBC Radio 4. medium.com/@martinwroe/...

An interview with American poet Marie Howe featured in the @churchtimes.bsky.social. She was talking to @martinwroe.bsky.social about her poetry, including her @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winning retrospective What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

'Britain’s 47 operational offshore windfarms now supply nearly a fifth (17%) of its electricity generation – making it the second-biggest power source after gas – with the sector employing about 40,000 people...' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'In all of these days that we call our life Waiting in case we might be surprised All of us waiting to be looked in the eye Waiting to be seen, to be recognized ...' On waiting and healing, an advent poem. gohealth.org.uk/day-7-so-man...