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Send us Fan Mail An examination of commemoration of Armistice Day in the UK. 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 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 Walt Whitman's famous and epigrammatic poem spoken and briefly discussed by Tudor Rickards. 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.co...

Send us Fan Mail An introduction to a creative problem process as applied to a marketing a new song. 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 This is a nearly true story in which names have been disguised to protect the young chess students involved 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.w...

Send us Fan Mail This is the tale of the long suffering dental professional who has to look after the well-being of my molars. As a result of many one-sided conversations, I’ve learned something about the art of strictly come dentistry. How my gum hygiene is assessed, noted carefully, and recorded with evidence to be used against me at my next visit to the hygienistry.  But recently, a serious blo...

Send us Fan Mail The account is top secret and is only available to fully paid up club members of East Cheshire Chess Club. 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.wo...

Send us Fan Mail Mohammed Bin Salman. Review of ‘The man who would be King’ Tudor Rickards The man who would be King is Crown Prince  Mohammed Bin Salman, of Saudi Arabia. In his efforts to transform his country, his approach deserves comparisons with another globally influential leader, Chairman Xi Jingping of China. The distinguished American political reporter Karen Elliott House has summarised...

Send us Fan Mail Over the last few months,I have become involved in the generation of music produced with the help of artificial intelligence systems. The work has evolved from long-term contact and now Business collaborator Jonathan Levitt.  Johnathan is a Chess grand master, but my initial contact was coming across a book he wrote about the nature of humour. In case any of you would like to obta...

Send us Fan Mail The Haribo ads have two adults pretending to be little children. The BBC5 live breakfast show also features two adults playing children’s games, breaking off from time to time to carry out an interview with a politician while attempting to be adults. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email ever...

Send us Fan Mail Bang to rights It has been a tense time in Tudor Towers, the new headquarters of TudoRama tunes. I am setting down the disturbing events as I experienced them in the hope that they will be able to be used in my defence if needed. My story begins on Sunday last. In some ways it was a typical day of efforts to meet the deadline of the international edition of TudoRama. This involved...

Send us Fan Mail East Cheadle B is a fictional Chess club in a fictional league somewhere in the leafy suburbs of Cheshire. I may have drawn accidentally on experiences over the years as a member of clubs that took pleasure when they managed to pull off a rare victory against stronger opponents.  A Glorious Victory I sing a song of a victory Unmatched in the annals of our club’s history. When you’...

Send us Fan Mail The Return of Manchester United A message found bobbing in a bottle in the Irwin river. Believed to be the words of a terrace song. Glory, glory Man United Glory, glory Man United Here we come already back on track With  Amorim as manager we’re coming back Glory, glory Man United Glory, glory Man United Glory, glory Man United With  Amorim as manager we’re coming back Stay up-to-d...

Send us Fan Mail Of course I didn’t mean to. These are National iconic figures whose work adds to Welsh culture as one grounded in the musical arts. The day of my disgrace started innocently enough as I prepared my weekly newsletter with its eclectic mix of politics, sport (mostly chess and tennis), and assorted personal gossip... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and curren...

Send us Fan Mail Calon Lan: A great Welsh song Written as a tribute to one of the great musical songs (arguably a hymn, but strong hints of a more ancient Celtic influence). In part, I wanted to see what an AI version will turn out like… 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...

Send us Fan Mail Seconds Out New chess verses written and spoken by Tudor Rickards Queensbury chess is all the rage Put the players in a cage Hear the cry of Seconds Out Win by a checkmate - or by a knockout 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 Twitt...

Send us Fan Mail Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards  To Sophie Rose, from top to toes  Upon this special day.  With all our wishes  And love and kisses, this is what we say  The road ahead cannot be read, How every much we hope or pray   Yours is the only future now,  and yours becomes the untrod way. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by sign...

Send us Fan Mail Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards from articles in The Week, The Economist, and a Case study from Henley Business School. The rise and fall of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2022, and the subsequent disastrous loss from power of the Conservative Government in 2024 have become one of the most widely-studied cases of political decline in recent years. Refs Stay up-to-date with a...

Send us Fan Mail Written and rather badly spoken by Tudor Rickards possessor of two left hands and a wandering mind. Lyrics planned for conversion into song by Grandmaster Jon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNM44t7mcBw Bungee Jumping Boogie scrapes the rust from off your feet Diving like a multicoloured human parakeet Better than a roller-coaster, happy birthday treat Your death-defying Present i...

Send us Fan Mail Defendant's statement  TV Licensing authority v Professor Bumble It was a mistake your honour. A genuine mistake.  All my friends warn me that my trusting nature may sometimes even tip over into gullibility. I have already lost most of my savings to people claiming to be in possession of a large sum of money in my name, which they will be able to release for a modest proporti...

Send us Fan Mail The BBC has pulled off a journalistic coup, with a radio interview given by President Trump to the BBC’s Senior correspondent in America, Gary O’Donoghue. For me, it had a special resonance with the time during which I examined the relationship between the BBC and the leader of the then British government, Boris Johnson. That was to become the material published as Boris me and th...

Send us Fan Mail Could I have worked with Norman Tebbitt? An Everyday Creativity audiotape written and spoken by TR The question was asked by the diversity activist Simon Fanshawe shortly after the death was announced of the former conservative politician Norman Tebbitt, in July 2025 The Diversity By Design project develops a practical approach  to developing cultures which are sensitive to divers...

Send us Fan Mail CaveMan Rap: The True Story Tudor Rickards Inspired by Jonathan Levitt and his team of silicon helpers Way back before the wheel was there Everything in the world was square Then Caveman invented Caveman Rap With a Caveman Tap and a Caveman Clap He got too old for fishing and trapping So he invented Caveman Rapping  With a click of a stick and his knuckles cracking That’s how he i...

Send us Fan Mail A recent article in a serious current affairs journal challenged its readers to send in any suggestion for a rhyme for Netanyahu. I took up the challenge but unfortunately failed to record the name of the journal. Anyway, here are my efforts and a little background, a sort of bluffers guide to writing rhyming verse (I won’t go so far as to describe it as poetry). My first scribble...

Send us Fan Mail This is our Globe  Tudor Rickards A previously unpublished poem which seems suitable for turning into something special with more than a little help from my IT savvy friends ... WRITTEN FOR TWO VOICES THE ROUND EARTHER  THE FLATEARTHER I IMAGINE THE EFFECT TO BE LIKE THE CROWD SINGING ‘ABIDE WITH ME’ AT THE CUP FINAL: THIS IS OUR GlOBE THE ROUNDEARTHER The Earth is round, I’ll hav...