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Send us Fan Mail Rainbow words. How they are contributing to dangers to our civilisation A post on the X platform recently set me thinking about its contents. It read: Here in the UK it’s dawning on many of us that rainbow words like tolerance, diversity and inclusion have been exploited to trick us into acting as stewards of our own destruction, and that if we were a bit more prejudiced and racis...

Send us Fan Mail I review the product and  packaging from the True Start coffee company. I complete this review while finishing a cup of coffee from ingredients provided by the True Start coffee company. 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 @...

Send us Fan Mail I bring the news of a miracle that took place at the tennis club which has figured from time to time in these podcasts.  Doctor Glycol, who has also featured from time to time has conceded that something very strange has taken place although from his strictly scientific viewpoint miracles are no more than unscientific representations of scientific phenomena. I will let my audience...

Send us Fan Mail Trial October 31 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 Wit and wisdom, Early June 2025 The halfway post BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly demanding the FBI compile a list of everyone who uses the #TACO hashtag referencing "Trump Always Chickens Out." Doc Just heard that the government is banning Roman numerals!!  Not on my watch! Me Nice one, Doc. IV or IIII ? Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and c...

Send us Fan Mail I awake  to the rumbling of a large vehicle pulling up outside my front drive. My bedside alarm says 5.30am.  Had my cover been blown?  I had been expecting something every day for months since my messages to one address remain unanswered. My pretence of ignoring visible security measures in a neighbourhood of otherwise securely-barricaded houses had always been no more than a hop...

Send us Fan Mail Bigger than Hollywood. Bigger than Bollywood. The romance between the most powerful political leader in the world and the richest man in the world crashed and burned in the space of a few days. Closest friends have always whispered that it was always a matter of time before, in the words of the song, they would have to call the whole thing off. Why? The gossip sheets of Washington...

Send us Fan Mail "We all know someone who avoids the items on the front shelf in supermarkets”. This proposition was put forward recently by a friend of mine who writes under the pseudonym of Shoab Molvi.  Shoab“ specialises in quirky puns of the kind which appeals to those with whom he shares his sense of humour. Writing on one of his favourite outlets, namely X formally known as Twitter, he...

Send us Fan Mail Eco’s fourteen features of fascism In a much-quoted article in the  New York Review of Books, in 1995, the philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco reflects on his direct experience of fascism.  Eco typically refuses refuses patronise his readers, which can make him difficult to follow. In one of his own books he advised readers not to bother unless they were prepared to work hard at...

Send us Fan Mail TACO stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out," a mischievous phrase coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong in an opinion piece on May 2, 2025. He was referring  to Trump's pattern of announcing steep tariffs only to backpedal in the face of market turmoil. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing...

Send us Fan Mail Apologies for even more flubs than usual TR 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  Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC: The uneasy relationship between sport and politics. The uneasy relationship between sport and politics is demonstrated by the case of Gary Lineker, a former international football star who became the BBC’s highest paid sports journalist. Linacre’s engaging style contributed to a high profile career after his retirement from football, which i...

Send us Fan Mail What’s more boring than watching paint dry? Answer: Attending  the AGM of a Chess league. This audio record of one such experience has two purposes. It is a summary of my attendance at the annual general meeting of Stockport chess league which took place on Wednesday, the 14th of May It is also an attempt at catharsis on my part of the experience.  I may have exaggerated some poin...

Send us Fan Mail Doc continues his punning streak… I taught my four year old son how to use the word abundance in a sentence. He said: Thanks Dad that really means a lot! I’ve been meaning to mention this often-repeated tweet which seems designed to convince very dim people how they may be able to conceal their dimness. "My friends think I'm a crypto genius, (I'm not) it's beca...

Send us Fan Mail Is it me, or is the collection of bins beyond the capabilities of a householder like myself? For several weeks, I had noticed that my green bin was not collected on the designated day, which happens to be Thursdays. To be precise, I mean emptied of the garden and household waste it contained. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary b...

Send us Fan Mail The press waited in expectation for the latest announcement from Donald Trump. They had been promised sensational news which would be the biggest news even of this administration. The fortunate reporters who had passed the loyalty test permitting them access to breaking news waited agog. Had the invasion of Canada begun? Had Israeli prime minister Netanyahu sealed the agreement th...

Send us Fan Mail The April 1 announcement came as no surprise to the many supporters of the philosopher and cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott whose work has been much admired in intellectual circles for many years. The announcement cited his contribution to economics in general, and to his conceptualisation of the corridor of uncertainty. The corridor of uncertainty is a term now popularised by Boyco...

Send us Fan Mail At one level, tennis has a squeaky clean reputation with images of strawberries and cream at Wimbledon, smartly dressed officials and players following the written and unwritten rules of the game. However, there is a dark side to tennis. Every so often a bad boy or a bad girl erupts on the court and into the media. Perhaps the most celebrated was John you can’t be serious McEnroe....

Send us Fan Mail Seth, Anil. Being you: A new science of consciousness. Penguin, 2021. The nature of human creativity has been increasingly recognised as a route to understanding artificial intelligence, and the mimicry of human behaviours by the emerging chatbot systems.  Consequently, Being You, by the distinguished neuroscientist Professor Anil Seth, arrives at a significant time. As I read it,...

Send us Fan Mail We continue the era of American liberation from exploitation by the rest of the world. I will try to squeeze other news and perhaps some with a little wit and wisdom … The story so far. President Trump’s announcement of his plan to MAGA produces a substantial negative effect on stock markets and criticism from economists in an unusual show of agreement. Stay up-to-date with all of...

Send us Fan Mail The headlines are striking. ‘Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven year old opponent’ The vicious act of nipper nipping took place in a demonstration event in Moscow. It seems that the robot had been programmed in turn-taking. Its human opponent moves a piece from one chess board square to another. The robot differentiates legal and illegal chess moves. If the move is legal...

Send us Fan Mail Defining a woman. The legal case challenging the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the equality legislation (2010) April 17 2025 The case was brought by Women For Scotland, a gender critical organisation, against ministers of the Scottish Parliament. The case eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, whose ruling was announced this week.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tud...

Send us Fan Mail No, it’s not because they both wrote a book. Over a billion copies of Mao’s little red book is believed to have been printed. The Art of the Deal has reached a puny million copies.  It’s because President Trump’s leadership is increasingly being compared with Mao’s disastrous attempt to transform China, known as the Cultural Revolution. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's pod...

Send us Fan Mail Confession. I am referring to my own sad case, having eventually accepted that my aging tennis bag was in serious need of restoration to some minimum level of acceptability on the hygiene front.  Yes, a weekly sequence of spills from water bottles, biscuits, sunscreen lotions, muddy boots, energy drinks, unwashed sportswear and assorted sandwiches had taken its toll on it. The las...

Send us Fan Mail A joke attributed to the great Irish comedian and raconteur,Dave Allen. The joke has been related many times and I was reminded of it recently on the website Quora in an entry by Roland Wyvern of Brighton 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 sig...