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Send us Fan Mail Yesterday 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...

Send us Fan Mail It 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 t...

Send us Fan Mail Life is sadness, life’s a bitch I 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail I 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&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Where 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 me...

Send us Fan Mail Written 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...

Send us Fan Mail Every 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.  Bu...

Send us Fan Mail Donald 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 everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everyda...

Send us Fan Mail Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail Listeners 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...

Send us Fan Mail A 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 newsl...

Send us Fan Mail In 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 Strai...

Send us Fan Mail Eze 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 sign...

Send us Fan Mail Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail A WOMAN’S HISTORY by  W H Davies When Mary Price was five years old And had a bird that died  She laid its body under flowers; And called her friends to pray to God, And sing sad hymns for hours When she before her fifteenth year Was ruined by a man, The neighbours sought him out, and said- ‘You’ll come along and marry her Or hang till you are dead’ When they had found the child h...

Send us Fan Mail In 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,...

Send us Fan Mail My topic for today is developing a plan for successful innovation. The subject is one which continues to attract attention, and books continue to be published offering various approaches some with more outrageous claims than others. I want to describe one approach which worked for many and varied organisations mainly in the United Kingdom. I believe it can be applied to today’s fa...

Send us Fan Mail David Atherton is a scholarly contributor to X  He explains that he has became increasingly disillusioned with his reach on X, and decided to write  about stuff he likes .You can follow David on X , where he publishes as @DaveAtherton20. In a recent post, he selects as his topic, English idioms. In it, he describes the origin of the terms: one for the Road, being on the wagon, pul...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, I’m taking the approach which I found useful in introducing graduate level workshops on creativity and leadership. I would invite the Group to share their understanding of a current leadership issue and then discussing it through the perspective of leadership challenges provided by it. So that’s where I want to go with this podcast. I’m assuming that listeners to...

Send us Fan Mail The adventures of Keith have attracted a faithful following on X.  His biographer Sama Holle has chronicled the adventures of a range of eco-friendly animals on a farm, but I am only reporting on a day in the life of Keith as summarised on X. I have added a short poem in honour of Keith and his eco friendly farm friends.   Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs a...

Send us Fan Mail As a long-time exile from Wales, I have to confess  that my grasp of the language is pretty bad. So much so that I struggle even to follow the commentary in Welsh of rugby games on SC4. At the present time, this might be regarded as a blessing in disguise. However, I am aware of Saint David’s Day falling on March 1 if only because of fading schoolboy memories. At risk of demonstra...

Send us Fan Mail Overnight, a sensational political event. A resurgent Green Party wins a by-election in a close contest against the right wing Reform party and against the Government, the traditional party of the Left in England... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign...

Send us Fan Mail Reflections on the difficulties experienced in revising the acknowledgements section for the fourth edition of a textbook. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk lea...

Send us Fan Mail Why Nigel Farage Recruits Tories By Russ Jackson Dr Russ Jackson is one of the deepest thinkers currently posting on social media. This is an abridged podcast version with some interventions by myself of a post on X this week. It examines an interview by Nigel Farage with the BBC‘s Nick Robinson. Dr Jackson points out that the leader of the Reform party has to deal with an awkward...

Send us Fan Mail The political news in the United Kingdom this week has been dominated by sensational stories about the imminent humiliation and resignation of Keir Starmer. Various explanations were offered often justified by evidence of his shocking incompetence and implications of his duplicity... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing...