Martin Wroe
@martinwroe.bsky.social
Improvising. Latest poetry collection, 'This Heart. Poems From The Universe Inside.' https://www.ionabooks.com/product/this-heart/ London, Wales Some more words. martinwroe.medium.com
++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
'A record 269,000 solar installations were completed in the UK last year, over a third more than the previous year and the equivalent of a new rooftop solar installation every two minutes...' www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
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'Now that we’ve outsourced our lives to digital deities, we are rescued by what he calls the ‘original human algorithm’ — the ritual of human gatherings.' medium.com/@martinwroe/...
Keep The Magic Close
The relic, the ritual and the gathering — the ‘original human algorithm’. A Thought for the Day for BBC Radio 4.
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'Now that we’ve outsourced our lives to digital deities, we are rescued by what he calls the ‘original human algorithm’ — the ritual of human gatherings.' medium.com/@martinwroe/...
Keep The Magic Close
The relic, the ritual and the gathering — the ‘original human algorithm’. A Thought for the Day for BBC Radio 4.
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'We can talk about other things, we can look away, we can refuse to look up, but – like the heat bearing down on so many of us at this very moment – we cannot escape it...' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Climate sceptics cheering as they melt in record temperatures? This heatwave is where satire has come to die | Jonathan Freedland
Delegates at an ‘anti-woke’ conference disparaged Ed Miliband’s net zero policies. But even they could not ignore the sweat on their foreheads, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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'We unfortunately talk too much to economists, too little to poets...' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Make people dream’: how to build an economy for the common good
Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world
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Art thou in Cambridge (UK) or capable of getting there this Sunday at 11:45AM? Come see me at St. Paul’s. It’s free.
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...
Lyrical
Lyrical Holloway, North London Occasional lo-fi words and unplugged songs. Poetry and music And a drink or two That’s it. (Sorry we didn’t fill the rest of this space with more words.)
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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 🧡
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2mo agoAs part of our annual commitment to marking Refugee Week and World Refugee Day, The Independent is supporting Refugees at Home and Choose Love who are working with refugees and people seeking safety around the world.
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...
Job vacancies
Together we can change the rules to protect the planet, share the wealth and give everyone a say in how the economy is run.
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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...
James Ellroy: ‘It’s satanic to me, the dependency people have on computers’
The outspoken crime novelist talks his provocative new book, his hatred of technology and why the film adaptation of LA Confidential is a ‘turkey’
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'...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...
Rowan Williams makes the case for solidarity | The Observer
In a world of exile and estrangement, the theologian argues we must forge closer ties, before it’s too late
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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
Nigerians bet on solar power as global oil crisis hits wallets
Outages and surging fuel prices spur growing number of homes and businesses ditching backup generators for solar systems in Nigeria
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'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/...
The Writing on the Wall
‘No Tyndale, no Kindle.’ On the subversive power of words, for BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day.
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'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/...
The Writing on the Wall
‘No Tyndale, no Kindle.’ On the subversive power of words, for BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day.
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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/...
‘Instructions for Transformation’
On the ‘imaginal cells’ of social change and history arriving on the quiet. A Thought for the Day for BBC Radio 4.
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'On every occasion, when the negotiation was taking place, it would be the cleaners who would take the lead.' www.theguardian.com/business/202...
From fringe issue to the heart of politics: the UK Living Wage campaign marks 25 years of success | Heather Stewart
The group’s latest triumph won over the Department for Business and Trade, now it is eyeing private care providers and supermarkets
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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/...
‘Instructions for Transformation’
On the ‘imaginal cells’ of social change and history arriving on the quiet. A Thought for the Day for BBC Radio 4.
medium.com
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...
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
Her philosophical approach to therapy has become a global phenomenon, and inspired a new book. Could a session with her change Sophie McBain’s life?
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'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...
Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee
Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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‘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/...
How To Get There
A Thought for the Day for BBC Radio 4 on Flexitarianism and ‘living your way into a new kind of thinking.’ (Listen here.)
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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/...
How To Get There
A Thought for the Day for BBC Radio 4 on Flexitarianism and ‘living your way into a new kind of thinking.’ (Listen here.)
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