BrendanMartin
@brendanfmartin.bsky.social
Social entrepreneur working for organisations and services with Humanity at the Heart. www.publicworld.com
If you've read this fine book you'll want to come along and meet Maff next week. And if you haven't read it please come along anyway, because I am pretty sure that once you've met the author you'll want to read the book!
One week to go 📚
Humanity at the Heart Book Club with Maff Potts, founder of @camerados-org.bsky.social.
🗓 Tues 23 Sept | 4pm | Online
Hosted by @brendanfmartin.bsky.social
📚 Book: tinyurl.com/mw39ahck
✅ Register: tinyurl.com/mpcn98ax
#BookClub
Humanity at the Heart Book Club with Maff Potts, founder of @camerados-org.bsky.social.
🗓 Tues 23 Sept | 4pm | Online
Hosted by @brendanfmartin.bsky.social
📚 Book: tinyurl.com/mw39ahck
✅ Register: tinyurl.com/mpcn98ax
#BookClub
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you've read this fine book you'll want to come along and meet Maff next week. And if you haven't read it please come along anyway, because I am pretty sure that once you've met the author you'll want to read the book!
If, as Maff Potts says, friends and purpose are the building blocks of a good life, what are the implications for public services? That's one of the questions Maff and I will explore in the Humanity at the Heart book club chat. Please join us -- see the @publicworld.bsky.social post for the link.
New: Humanity at the Heart Book Club!
Tues 23 Sept | 4pm | Online
Expect lively conversation hosted by @brendanfmartin.bsky.social with Maff Potts, founder of @camerados-org.bsky.social
Get the book: tinyurl.com/mw39ahck
Save your seat: tinyurl.com/mpcn98ax
#BookClub
Tues 23 Sept | 4pm | Online
Expect lively conversation hosted by @brendanfmartin.bsky.social with Maff Potts, founder of @camerados-org.bsky.social
Get the book: tinyurl.com/mw39ahck
Save your seat: tinyurl.com/mpcn98ax
#BookClub
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If, as Maff Potts says, friends and purpose are the building blocks of a good life, what are the implications for public services? That's one of the questions Maff and I will explore in the Humanity at the Heart book club chat. Please join us -- see the @publicworld.bsky.social post for the link.
I am very much looking forward to this conversation with Maff Potts. He is great fun as well as having profound insights from many years of working with homeless people. Please join us!
New: Humanity at the Heart Book Club!
Tues 23 Sept | 4pm | Online
Expect lively conversation hosted by @brendanfmartin.bsky.social with Maff Potts, founder of @camerados-org.bsky.social
Get the book: tinyurl.com/mw39ahck
Save your seat: tinyurl.com/mpcn98ax
#BookClub
Tues 23 Sept | 4pm | Online
Expect lively conversation hosted by @brendanfmartin.bsky.social with Maff Potts, founder of @camerados-org.bsky.social
Get the book: tinyurl.com/mw39ahck
Save your seat: tinyurl.com/mpcn98ax
#BookClub
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I am very much looking forward to this conversation with Maff Potts. He is great fun as well as having profound insights from many years of working with homeless people. Please join us!
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👥 Managers & team leads - ready to make self-organising teamwork real?
From Jan 2026: £50/month gets you
✔ Coaching
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✔ Toolkits + live sessions
✔ Safe, no-fluff community
Join the change 👉 publicworld.com/membership-g...
From Jan 2026: £50/month gets you
✔ Coaching
✔ Peer support
✔ Toolkits + live sessions
✔ Safe, no-fluff community
Join the change 👉 publicworld.com/membership-g...
August 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
👥 Managers & team leads - ready to make self-organising teamwork real?
From Jan 2026: £50/month gets you
✔ Coaching
✔ Peer support
✔ Toolkits + live sessions
✔ Safe, no-fluff community
Join the change 👉 publicworld.com/membership-g...
From Jan 2026: £50/month gets you
✔ Coaching
✔ Peer support
✔ Toolkits + live sessions
✔ Safe, no-fluff community
Join the change 👉 publicworld.com/membership-g...
Why are there so many ladybirds this year? My roses are delighted - no affid problem this summer - but, as usual, I can’t resist wondering about the sad story behind the happy one.
July 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Why are there so many ladybirds this year? My roses are delighted - no affid problem this summer - but, as usual, I can’t resist wondering about the sad story behind the happy one.
Artificial intelligence and human judgement. publicworld.com/news-blog/ar...
Artificial intelligence: authoritarian by default? - Public World
The global tennis circus has decamped from London for another year, leaving behind not only the usual dramatic memories but also an artificial intelligence (AI) controversy with relevance far beyond W...
publicworld.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Artificial intelligence and human judgement. publicworld.com/news-blog/ar...
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Leading change? You don’t have to do it alone.
Join our free 3-month Mastermind trial this Sept–Nov for leaders building people-first orgs.
✔️ 12-person peer group
✔️ Real challenges, real action
📩 Email admin@publicworld.com to join
#Leadership #Mastermind #PublicWorld
Join our free 3-month Mastermind trial this Sept–Nov for leaders building people-first orgs.
✔️ 12-person peer group
✔️ Real challenges, real action
📩 Email admin@publicworld.com to join
#Leadership #Mastermind #PublicWorld
July 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Leading change? You don’t have to do it alone.
Join our free 3-month Mastermind trial this Sept–Nov for leaders building people-first orgs.
✔️ 12-person peer group
✔️ Real challenges, real action
📩 Email admin@publicworld.com to join
#Leadership #Mastermind #PublicWorld
Join our free 3-month Mastermind trial this Sept–Nov for leaders building people-first orgs.
✔️ 12-person peer group
✔️ Real challenges, real action
📩 Email admin@publicworld.com to join
#Leadership #Mastermind #PublicWorld
Will none of them ever remember Denis Healey’s sound advice about what to do when you’re in a hole?
They are a cooked turkey just waiting for the next Christmas.
July 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Will none of them ever remember Denis Healey’s sound advice about what to do when you’re in a hole?
Good advice.
If you're planning to join a protest — and you should! — please remember this timeless tip from the Detroit & Michigan chapter of the National Lawyers Guild:
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
#NoKings
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
#NoKings
NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Good advice.
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beautiful scenes
Fed Chair Powell met with Trump today. Official Fed statement:
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
May 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
beautiful scenes
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My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
Court tariffs bombshell should inspire trading partners to defy Trump
[FREE TO READ] The EU must stand up to the US president’s bullying for the sake of the world trading system
on.ft.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.
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Delighted to publish a thinkpiece by social explorer and author Cormac Russell. One of our headline speakers for Stronger Things 2025.
bit.ly/CormacRussel...
To hear from him on the day, sign up here 👇
Last few in-person tickets left. Or join us online.
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bit.ly/CormacRussel...
To hear from him on the day, sign up here 👇
Last few in-person tickets left. Or join us online.
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Exploring the Potential of Community-Centred Public Services - New Local
This thinkpiece by the leading social explorer Cormac Russell focuses on how to realign the relationship between institutions and communities. He sets out how better understanding and working alongsid...
bit.ly
May 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Delighted to publish a thinkpiece by social explorer and author Cormac Russell. One of our headline speakers for Stronger Things 2025.
bit.ly/CormacRussel...
To hear from him on the day, sign up here 👇
Last few in-person tickets left. Or join us online.
www.newlocal.org.uk/strongerthin...
bit.ly/CormacRussel...
To hear from him on the day, sign up here 👇
Last few in-person tickets left. Or join us online.
www.newlocal.org.uk/strongerthin...
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Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
May 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.
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🥁 #StrongerThings 2025 speaker announcement 🥁
@cormacrussell.bsky.social, Managing Director at Nurture Development, will join us with provocations around community power, trust, dominant narratives, institutions and neighbourhoods.
Make sure you're in the room. Book today 🏃♀️ buff.ly/ahDHhvH
@cormacrussell.bsky.social, Managing Director at Nurture Development, will join us with provocations around community power, trust, dominant narratives, institutions and neighbourhoods.
Make sure you're in the room. Book today 🏃♀️ buff.ly/ahDHhvH
April 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🥁 #StrongerThings 2025 speaker announcement 🥁
@cormacrussell.bsky.social, Managing Director at Nurture Development, will join us with provocations around community power, trust, dominant narratives, institutions and neighbourhoods.
Make sure you're in the room. Book today 🏃♀️ buff.ly/ahDHhvH
@cormacrussell.bsky.social, Managing Director at Nurture Development, will join us with provocations around community power, trust, dominant narratives, institutions and neighbourhoods.
Make sure you're in the room. Book today 🏃♀️ buff.ly/ahDHhvH
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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When is the right time to make changes to the way your organisation works for better outcomes ❓
The answer is now.
The key is to start somewhere and to start small, building the foundations for more significant change over time.
Find out more here: publicworld.com
The answer is now.
The key is to start somewhere and to start small, building the foundations for more significant change over time.
Find out more here: publicworld.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
When is the right time to make changes to the way your organisation works for better outcomes ❓
The answer is now.
The key is to start somewhere and to start small, building the foundations for more significant change over time.
Find out more here: publicworld.com
The answer is now.
The key is to start somewhere and to start small, building the foundations for more significant change over time.
Find out more here: publicworld.com
Excellent piece here from @publicworld.bsky.social associate @colintalbot.bsky.social about where to focus if we want higher public service productivity.
April 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Excellent piece here from @publicworld.bsky.social associate @colintalbot.bsky.social about where to focus if we want higher public service productivity.
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Jeni speaks for very many of us 🙏💜🔥
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling.
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
"I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no."
open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jeni speaks for very many of us 🙏💜🔥
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Drawn 6 years go today. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Drawn 6 years go today. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.
I think this is the most convincing explanation of Trump and his world view I have read. on.ft.com/3EMSSEx
Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses
In the US president’s vision of post-liberal global disorder the weak should always surrender to the strong, writes the historian, philosopher and author
on.ft.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I think this is the most convincing explanation of Trump and his world view I have read. on.ft.com/3EMSSEx
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Libdems to legislate on things I find irritating. Children leaving a tiny bit of milk in the bottle so they don’t have to wash it and put in recycling. The way you look forward to a deadline passing only for another one to appear. Celery in tuna mayo
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England
Under the plan, those who flout the prohibition could face a maximum fine of £1,000
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Libdems to legislate on things I find irritating. Children leaving a tiny bit of milk in the bottle so they don’t have to wash it and put in recycling. The way you look forward to a deadline passing only for another one to appear. Celery in tuna mayo
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@vibrantkatiekelly.bsky.social @cormacrussell.bsky.social @colintalbot.bsky.social @alirice.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @hilarycottam.bsky.social on.ft.com/42IPouN
A different economic outlook
Amid the news of market turmoil, we should not ignore the currencies of hospitality, patience and care
on.ft.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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If anyone in Manchester or north east wales wants a perfectly functioning wheelchair lmk. Proving bafflingly difficult to give away, including to the Welsh NHS or social services. I guess they are famously well resourced after all
April 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If anyone in Manchester or north east wales wants a perfectly functioning wheelchair lmk. Proving bafflingly difficult to give away, including to the Welsh NHS or social services. I guess they are famously well resourced after all