Category: Blog
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Last week, a friend went to a second-hand book sale and bought me a pamphlet called Speech by G. M. Malenkov to the USSR Supreme Soviet. I have great friends, right? The pamphlet, with an English translation of Malenkov’s speech from April 26, 1954, was published by Soviet News of 3 Rosary Gardens, London – an ironically bourgeois…
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A dictator’s authority is dependent on people believing that that dictator has power and control. For Nicolae Ceaușescu, that illusion was shattered on December 21st, 1989, after he gave what became his last ever speech…
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As speechwriters, we are often given seemingly impossible tasks. While researching for my second book – which, I can now announce, will be called The Language of Evil – I came across what is quite possibly the most ludicrous speech I have ever encountered. Sadly, the words to the speech are lost, but the story behind them…
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A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Ray Belli who produces the Words For Granted podcast. From Donald Trump to McDonalds, we discuss a range of topics relating to my book How to Apologise for Killing a Cat: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion. You can listen to the podcast on the Words for…
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