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Send us Fan MailThis audiotape is a transcript translated into English of  an open letter written to President Trump by the distinguished Russian director and author Eduard Topol. The letter was widely circulated on the Internet on September 13 2026.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailMacGillycuddy's Reeks: The Creation of a Folk BalladMacGillycuddy's Reeks is a  ballad about a young woman abandoned on the eve of her wedding. This is the audio note  I made in turning an idea into a poem, on Friday 11 September 2026.Before I wrote a word of the poem, I wanted to imagine it as being sung by a young Irish folk singer, to whom I gave the nameSheilagh 0’Shea I added to this a little fictional back story for my new singer:Sheilagh 0’Shea is an Irish folk singer who shot to fame with her first track which won first prize at the Galway Folk Festival of 2014 with the track  MacGillycuddy's Reeks Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

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Send us Fan MailThis is the story about a large scale operation, possibly illegal, in buying second hand books, scraping their contents before destroying the originals.It was drawn to my attention by a regular contributor to my newsletter who sent me this intriguing message.“I read this article a week or so ago, and it made me think about our conversation about your books being scanned for AI use. It’s such an odd situation - codified knowledge, scanned for AI use, and then the source is destroyed”Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailNigel Farage defends the indefensible This audio tape is the second dealing with The Channel 4 report on malpractices within the Reform party. It is offered as an example of how not to prepare a statement for public release if your intention is to clarify rather than to confuse. The earlier tape can be heard under the title: Channel 4 does a number on Nigel FarageStay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailAs the Channel 4 programme revealed, Mr Farage was filmed by undercover reporters from @Verbatim_Media as part of a year-long investigation that Channel 4 News has thoroughly checked and verified.This meeting took place in his Clacton constituency in July - when Mr Farage was fighting a by-election he called after separate allegations about his finances…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailChatGBT helps me understand Andy Burnham's first policy statement as Prime Minister.The news headlines  tended to tell us more about their political leadings than the statement to the House.As The Spectator saw it ‘Reviews of his debut yesterday are mixed, with most papers this morning focusing on his blaming of Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for Britain’s problems’. I found myself turning to ChatGPT. I couldn’t help noticing how the system had been programmed to be informative, but also to be indeed a very knowledgeable friend chatting with its pal.This is what my new pal told me …Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailThis audio text replicates contents of a post on X by the American social influencer Jeff Bullas. Jeff has granted permission for me to present his material, which I believe addresses one of the urgent challenges of the AI world.@jeffbullas postsStay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

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Send us Fan MailNine till ever. A tribute to Dolly PartonThis week every other news item was superseded by the news of the death of country superstar Dolly PartonI learned how she wrote songs in consolation at tragic incidences in a rollercoaster of life. My friends will confirm that I am not easily disposed to visual displays of emotion. Maybe this tribute has something special in that respect.Nine till ever. A tribute to Dolly PartonONENine till ever, no eclipseGoodby Dolly you’ll be missedNo more songs to listen to Goodby Dolly we love you Nine till ever, no eclipseGoodby Dolly you’ll be missedStay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailI am continuing my apprenticeship learning to use ChatGPT. At the moment, my experiment demonstrates how with minimum experience it is possible to find the appropriate amount of information and dealing with some problem.Today my problem was identifying a new local Business, which I believe to be some kind of music club.My conversation with ChatGPT went something like the following, which I have slightly abbreviated. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailA discussion supported by ChatGBT and illustrating a practical search process.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailAn important skill for the age of AI is developing skills at prompting AI agents. This audio note outlines some preliminary thoughts of my own, and an interesting publication on the topic.First, a working definition. What do I mean by creative prompting?Creative prompting is the process of obtaining powerful suggestions from an AI system through the prompts provided by an individual or group. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailThis week, the United Kingdom discovered a new sporting heroine, in the European Games. Amy Hunt won four gold medals in an increasing blaze of publicity.As the BBC enthusedAmy has never been afraid to choose the hard path. Undertaking an English Literature degree at Cambridge University, she was determined to prove - as she did in winning silver at last year's World Championships - that you can be "an academic badass and a track goddess" Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailWednesday 12 August 2026Tonight the world will go dark. Light from the Sun will be blocked off for a few minutes. Put simply, the orbit of the moon gets between the Sun and the Earth. This briefly  blocks the light waves from the Sun.I report how the spectacular event impacted on myself, on thousands of eclipse watchers around the northern hemisphere and on the BBC reporters following it.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

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Send us Fan MailThe BBC has recently presented a significant news event in a way that seems to me to be utterly irresponsible and biased.  It shows how reporting the news can slide into creating a news story to achieve an implicit goal. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailThis week in the United Kingdom, two people were thrust into the headlines. One is a university professor. The other is a convicted criminal whose rehabilitation as a local counsellor is being backed by the leader of the Conservative Party.It sometimes seems that such stories have an increased chance of success if the key figure has an extremely unusual name, or unconventional appearance...Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailOne of those stories you want to believe in, even if you suspect there is an element of promotional wishful thinking about it.The four grandmothers, Lynn, Susie, Rose, and Christine met wrestler Gordon DeReiss while travelling to Las Vegas to scatter the ashes of Rose's late husband, Pete. As sometimes happens, Gordon was sitting in one of their seats. He was wise enough not to get into an argument with the four grandmothers …Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailI wrote it this song initially for myself. It is called Dusky Come Ride with Me. An Anglo-Welsh Odyssey. I hope someday it will be heard and maybe sung by a new generation, with a deeper appreciation of the dynamic interplay between the English and Welsh languages and their cultures.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailRecently, a new nightmare known as Gazundering has entered into the process of selling a house…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailGuess what?I lost my phone yesterday. I did all the usual stuff searching many times in the same place and getting the same result.That’s one definition of insanity according to Albert Einstein.As I was carrying out my futile search, the enormity of my loss struck me. The first obvious reason was that I could not contact anyone to help in my search, because I had deprived myself of my main means of communication…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailFor many years, local elections in England have been brightened by the appearance of a bizarre figure dressed in a surreal costume topped by  a space age dustbin.Some have been angered by what they see as making a mockery of the sacred democratic process. Others have celebrated it as an example of quirky English humour lighting up the drab political scene.Count Binface grabbed the publicity from Nigel Farage when in July 2026 the latter announced his intentions to retire as an MP and then fight for his return in a by-election at Clacton.The plan took a bizarre turn when major parties refused to take part in the election leaving at one stage the possibility of a two horse race between Binface and Nigel FarageBinface was quick to advertise his manifesto which captures his surreal humour far better than I can...Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailComing up with a new idea for a product is one of those examples of a search for everyday creativity. The challenge crops up in a wide range of contexts and the approach I’m going to describe is one of various ways of carrying out a successful search. It can, however, be applied across a wide range of practical situations. I will take an example an attempt to provide a title for a new song by a small team of songwriters.I will describe the process in a general way so that it may be tried out in practice by anyone interested.The list:InjuryAmbidextrousFlashbackDresdenModel estateTowpathRomanceLanguageEcstasy Dead in a siloStay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailAs regular listeners to my audio casts will know, I am addicted to detective thrillers and particularly to those in the so-called golden age roughly between the first and second world wars.Among the galaxy of star writers, one blazed more brightly than the others. Agatha Christie‘s personal life has become as much a mystery in several ways as those fictional mysteries which brought her fame and fortune.I have acquired two of her works that were unknown to me but reissued recently. Perhaps they are clues in them I have not detected. But on the first reading, one had all the brilliance that makes Christie‘s work original and brilliant. The other might have been written as an attempt to imitate Agatha Christie by a far less gifted author. And that’s the mystery I found myself thinking about…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailKeir Starmer’s historic final hours as prime minister.Shortly after 9 am, it was clear the moment was imminent, when he and his wife Victoria appeared in front of No 10 Downing Street. It is often a symbolic changing of the political guard. Staff from No 10 are in the street applauding. Starmer begins the most difficult speech he has ever had to make…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailOver the course of many years, I had probably over quoted the story about Archimedes and his moment of discovery which has become known as the Eureka phenomenon.As it gets taught in universities around the world, Archimedes discovered his famous principle while in his bath prompting him to leap out and run through the streets of Athens crying something loosely transliterated into English as Eureka, that is to say ‘I’ve found it’.The Eureka moment is the moment of discovery accompanied by intense emotional pleasure.So we have the Eureka moment. Today is my example of a eureka moment which I offer as a replacement for some of the overused examples.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailI’m still getting my head around what I witnessed watching Question Time, yesterday evening. I was attracted to the idea of the programme with the leading candidates in the Makerfield by-election. Some years ago, I enjoyed Question Time,  when it permitted intelligent debate between guests with interventions from the audience. This seemed to change with the departure of the authoritative but skilfully impartial chairmanship at the time, by Robin Day and his successor David Dimbleby…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailThe question of copyright has become a hot issue with the rise of creative products assisted by artificial intelligence systems.I started thinking about this recently with a specific case example. It cropped up the work directed by Jonathan Levitt in producing a wide range of songs supported by his lyric writers, including myself, with Stephen Tranter, and a range of distinguished poets whose work has passed beyond the limit of copyright legislation.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailThis example of dark Russian humour was published on X translated from a Portuguese  source. The story is about the interrogation of President Putin in a question and answer session at a Russian school. The first question is from Sasha….Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailHow to spot a traitorThis audio Post was triggered by the timing of my return from a visit to my tennis club every Saturday morning.I still enjoy listening to radio five for the sports programs. On Saturdays, there is a problem called ‘spot the traitor’. It involves three football fans, each eulogising on the football team. However, one of the fans is fake, a traitor if you like. I understand spotting a traitor has become a National TV pastime. thanks to another program.Listening week after week, I began to see the ways in which a guest of the program attempts to identify the traitor, after listening to brief statements from each of the would be authentic fans…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

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Send us Fan MailI use Amazon a lot. But my appreciation of Amazon’s outstanding delivery service goes along with a considerable concern I have about the impact of its business practices at a local and a global level. I asked Dr Google ‘Why is Amazon criticised for its business practices?’This is what I learned …Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailCeltic win breaks HeartsHearts football club lost the title in a race they had been leading through throughout most of the season too many times champions Celtic. They lost in a devastating fashion at the last minute.Celtic have been serial winners of the competition. Hearts have never won it. Celtic fans enjoyed that fantastic moment. Hearts returned to their home territory where they were welcomed by their faithful fans. as heroes as if they had returned with victory.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailYesterday I was left feeling depressed at what I saw as hideous bias in the coverage of the upcoming local elections. Very late, I knew what I wanted to happen and feared it was probably too late  How to warn people about voting for charlatans?Wouldn’t it be wonderful, I asked myself, if everyone could listen to my message before they cast their votes on Thursday. After that the idea almost wrote itself.So here it is, a cry that may have to wait for another occasion for it to be heard…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailIt is now nearly a year since I became involved in a music-making project. The music is generated by an AI system by one member of a small team.This may become a more common approach to generating music which also has implications for theory and practice.We have now reached the inevitable stage of a start-up operation, namely the creation of a website. As a starting point, our team leader and music maker GM Jon has drafted a mission statement. Yes, that’s one of the features of conventional businesses likely to be familiar to most listeners to this podcast…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailLife is sadness, life’s a bitchI thought it might be interesting to record an audiotape about the origins of a song currently being worked on by music-making colleague GM Jon.Sometimes you can trace an idea to some starting event. In this case, it was a suggestion from Jon that we should put together several candidate lyrics on the general topic of old age. The idea struck me as sufficiently distant from most songs we had worked on that it at least considered serious considerations I even had some thoughts that we could stray into regions that would result in the song being banned for dealing with some tricky issues such as euthanasia.I even mentioned one of my favourite films it brought to mind, Springtime for Hitler in Germany…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailI came across a splendid analysis of the weakness of relying on natural talent, in a piece published in the Quora website. The author publishes under the title Halftime Legend.It makes sense, and may even contribute to the debate on the nature of creativity. It may be of more interest to Chess players, than to other listeners to my podcasts.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailWhere do new ideas come from? To compensate for my abysmal failure in steps per day, (according to my distance walked App)  I resort to the treadmill at my local gym. Recently, the experience was weird. My pounding on the treadmill seemed to produce a reaction. It was as if as if the treadmill was telling me something.I interpreted its message as if I had been listening to a mechanical version of the Oracle at Delphi. The rest of this brief podcast explains what I heard and how I interpreted it…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailWritten and narrated by Tudor Rickards I cannot claim to have invented the Houdini tactic in chess. However, I hinted at it in one of my least successful books, The Double Houdini. As will become obvious, the tactic does not work when you’re playing against a computer program. This week, it contributed to a much needed victory by our second team, still with a fighting chance of gaining promotion into the first division of the Stockport league. Much needed, as some consolation for the dive into the second division by our first team.I will now explain the basic principles of the Houdini tactic in preparation for next season, in whatever divisions we find ourselves….Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailEvery year, the masters golf championship at Augusta, Georgia gets worldwide television coverage. The traditions are well-known, including ritual acceptance by the winner of the iconic green jacket, handed over by last year‘s winner. This year, a contingency plan was smoothly executed as Rory McIlroy became the first player since 2002 to defend the Augusta title successfully. But amid the drama and spectacle, there is a darker story of the most famous golf club, which can be seen as the Twickenham or Wembley of Golf…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailDonald Trump, in the midst of saving the world, finds time to excoriate his multiple enemies in a classic late-night rant on Truth Social...Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

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Send us Fan MailListeners to this podcast will be aware that I have borrowed its title from a recent Channel 4 documentary  entitled Kier Starmer: where did it all go wrong. The broadcast triggered off a storm of criticism of its presenter Lewis Goodall, led by many disappointed supporters of his work in the United Kingdom, which had made him an icon of the left in a profession widely dominated by politically right-wing leaning journalists.It was certainly a provocative headline by Channel 4. It was widely presumed to be signalling another hatchet job on the Prime Minister who has received more than the usual criticism of a new first minister from the largely conservative oriented mainstream media...Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailA rendition of poem based on a favourite in the days of radio broadcasting by the BBC. With some help from tennis partners this morning (Lindsay, Neil, and Gordon) we reassembled what we believe to be the first lines of the poem, and quickly tracked down the original…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailIn the middle of the fantasy politics show starring Donald Trump, it was good for us to be reminded of some of the eccentric politicians that had recently departed the scene.One such figure was former speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.This week, impatient with the suggestions of lesser Mortals, Newt popped up to offer the world a dynamic solution to The Strait of Hormuz problem…Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailEze Kingsley  Ohaji posts on X about financial and political matters @ohajielom. His creative description of the war against Iran deserves wide circulation.Trump: Open the Strait in 48 hours or I strike your power plants.Iran: No.Trump: You have 48 hours.Iran: You said that already.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

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Send us Fan MailA WOMAN’S HISTORYby W H DaviesWhen Mary Price was five years oldAnd had a bird that died She laid its body under flowers;And called her friends to pray to God,And sing sad hymns for hoursWhen she before her fifteenth yearWas ruined by a man,The neighbours sought him out, and said-‘You’ll come along and marry herOr hang till you are dead’When they had found the child he wrongedAnd playing with her doll‘ I’ll come along with you’ said she -‘But I’ll not marry anyoneUnless my doll’s with me’With no more love’s heat in her thanThe wax upon her arm;With no more love-light in her eyesThan in the glass eyes of her doll -Nor wonder, nor surprise.When Mary Price was thirty-five,And he was lying dead,She wept as if her heart would break:But neighbours winked to see her tearsFall on a lovers’s neckNow Mary Price is seventy-fiveAnd skinning eels alive:She, active, strong, and full of breathHas caught the cat that stole an eel,And beaten it to deathStay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan MailIn my book Mourinho Matters I take Jose Mourinho as a case example of a charismatic leader. I will draw on the account as described in the book. I have selected an exerpt of the occasions when I was embarrassingly misunderstood by two other charismatic leaders, Pat Riley of Miami Heat, and sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United.Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email [email protected] to sign up!Follow Tudor on Twitter @TudortweetFollow Tudor's blogs:everydaycreativity.ukleaderswedeserve.wordpress.com