Here is my piece at Telegraph Blogs looking at the resignation letter of Baroness Warsi who left the government today because of UK policy on Gaza: … our approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain’s national interest and will have a […]
Spotted on Twitter. This one takes all available prizes for getting almost everything possible wrong in a short space, while yet displaying a non-trivial knowledge of English. The better your knowledge of a language, the better your mistakes? Maybe one day we’ll get Incontinent Ballistic Missiles. The next step in […]
Getting back to working on my e-book, Speechwriting for Leaders. Some of this is fruity and unexpected and highly operational stuff, if I say so myself. How about the current chapter on e-heckling: Some events make a virtue of the interactivity provided by IT. Screens round the walls of the […]
Part of the charm of writing blog-pieces for national newspapers and being active on Twitter is that you attract all sorts of views. What if many of them are deliberately trollishly offensive? In principle there is nothing to be done about this if you believe in free media. Yet it […]
Here is my latest piece for Telegraph Blogs about Ukraine/Russia/MH17 that got picked up all over the place, and led to me appearing on Lateline (Australian TV) – the link to the recording of that interview and a transcript of it that they prepared is here: EMMA ALBERICI: Indeed. We’re looking […]
Here is the Putin video I referred to in the last post. Thanks to the miracles of WordPress it is now so easy to embed videos that even I can do it… I am now using this clip in Negotiating or Speechwriting masterclasses as a unique and in a way supreme […]
The Russian Embassy in London says on its website that it has written a letter of protest to the Daily Mirror: Mr. Lloyd Embley Editor «Daily Mirror» Dear Sir, The Embassy has noticed the article «Vladimir Putin’s daughter flees £2million Dutch penthouse flat as fury grows over jet tragedy» published […]
My latest piece at Telegraph Blogs on the MH17 disaster and who knows what has picked up a lot of attention, including in Australia: The cause of the attack on the plane will have been known immediately to the Russian side. Missiles capable of hitting aircraft at that altitude cannot […]
Here is my latest piece at PunditWire, describing how I dealt with pesky young professionals not paying full attention during my Drafting Skills class last week in Warsaw. The main feature of this one is, of course, the superlative extract from the famous account of how Bertie Wooster is stuck […]
One of the features of my former site was the revolving set of comments from happy or disgruntled readers and others. That has gone (“no clutter!”). But some of them were wonderful in unexpected ways, and most of the ones that were less than wonderful were at least noteworthy. So, […]
