Sorry to be a bit quiet here folks. I am working on a major piece explaining the EU Budget and where the UK has leverage (or not). A dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Sorry to be a bit quiet here folks. I am working on a major piece explaining the EU Budget and where the UK has leverage (or not). A dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Today I was contacted via this site someone needing a quick (but good) article written about How to give a Eulogy. He had Googled speech expert and this site had come top of the first page. Hurrah. An hour later, said article duly delivered to general satisfaction. Now I need to work on my […]
Here is the link to the video of my TEDx presentation in Krakow on the Physics of Diplomacy. Pretty gruesome watching yourself in action. But I have done so in the name of Science. Some interesting public speaking points emerge. First, I don’t want to cross swords with Max Atkinson […]
Here’s a depressing piece at Open Democracy by Turi Munthe, who summarises for us an analysis by Dr Martin Moore and the Media Standards Trust of the steep relative and absolute decline in foreign news coverage in the British newspapers: The statistics make frightening reading. They compared foreign news coverage […]
Want to know how information sloshes along the Internet’s many pipes? And the cleverness of Capacity, Bandwidth, Throughput and Latency? Yes please.
Over at DIPLOMAT magazine is my latest piece on the highs and lows of diplomatic public speaking. See this excellent example when Queen Elizabeth I chastised the new Polish Ambassador – in fluent Latin: The first speech any Ambassador makes in her/his own right is the formal address to the […]
Peggy Noonan was one of Ronald Reagan’s speechwriters. One of her (and his) finest moments was this: She famously gave candidate Obama some fine words of support during his election campaign: He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; […]
This is odd. Andrew Heyn as HM Ambassador to Burma has been writing in implausibly frank terms in the Guardian about Burma’s forthcoming elections. Or, should I say ‘elections’, as the form appears to exceed the substance in democratic terms? Thus: People here believe that the vote will somehow be […]
It’s not easy to get the BBC to apologise for making a major blunder, but it happens. For example today: The BBC has apologised over reports claiming millions of pounds raised by Band Aid was used to buy arms. In March, World Service’s Assignment said cash raised by charities to […]
You know that ‘wagon-wheel effect’ in Western movies when it looks as if the wheels are going backwards? Explained here: Imagine that the true rotation of a four-spoke wheel is clockwise. The first instance of visibility of the wheel may occur when one spoke is at 12 o’clock. If by […]
