With so many awful things happening in the world, why o why do UK sports commentators have to add to our woe by their utter inability to pronounce the simple name of the Polish goal-keeper playing for Arsenal? His name is Wojciech Tomasz Szcz
With so many awful things happening in the world, why o why do UK sports commentators have to add to our woe by their utter inability to pronounce the simple name of the Polish goal-keeper playing for Arsenal? His name is Wojciech Tomasz Szcz
Remember Margaret Thatcher on Honest Money? One of my favourite political moments was the Panorama interview with Margaret Thatcher as the 1987 election loomed. She was asked about her policy on inflation. Maybe the Q and A were somehow choreographed? The camera panned in to close-up as she replied "I […]
Back in deepest Oxfordshire, after a week in which I gave five set-piece presentations. One was at a Wilton Park conference on the general theme of Russia and Social Media. The second was at TEDxWarsaw, a coaching session in public speaking for some of the speakers at the main event. Then […]
I am still in deepest Warsaw, poised to give Polish officials training tomorrow and Tuesday in Speechwriting. On Thursday I swung by TEDxWarsaw, having given some speech-coaching to several participants the night before. One of the points I made was that a presentation at an event like TEDx is not […]
Instapundit takes his fun where he finds it. Luckily at the moment there’s a lot to find.
Have a look at these impressive figures for the surging Facebook phenomenon across the ‘Muslim world’. Egypt has added 450,000 new users in the past month. Saudi Arabia (a much smaller country) has added 420,000. These are absolutely big numbers, the more so since (by definition) they represent better-off web-savvy […]
Today is the 8th anniversary of the assassination of Serbia’s dynamic young prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. And as the years drift by, Balkan conspiracy theories spread their twisted tentacles in more and more directions. Here for those who can use Google Translator are the mutterings of close Djindjic spin-doctor Vladimir […]
Let’s try some SEO fun! Speech-writer. Writing speeches. Writing good speeches. Expert speech-writing. Public speaking expert. How to start a speech. Professional speechwriting. Speechwriting training. Public presentations training. Perfect public speaking. Yesterday I received a message through the site from a European parliament asking about training in public speaking for […]
A kind reader fairly deep in the former Soviet Union writes: Would be good to discuss your blog sometime. Interesting balance between being outraged/outrageous enough to stand out from the crowd and get people to read, and being sensible enough to matter Ha ha. Story of my life. It’s just […]
A few weeks ago I spotted on Twitter that LSE wanted more book reviewers. Within an hour I was signed up, and a few days later my first book appeared. Economic Gangsters by American professors Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel: Here is my first LSE review of it, just up: So […]
