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Send us Fan Mail Wish I could have found more on other news items, but what became known as Signalgate had peak billing as March drew to a close, and Donald Trump’s tariff tantrums then pushed itheir way to dominate the highlights.  @Acyn Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?  Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited...

Send us Fan Mail Controligarchs by Seamus Bruner. Book Review by Tudor Rickards Reviewer’s warning: The book presents a perspective which other commentators have described as promoting conspiracy theories. 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 Donald Trump Coup. Sensational News revealed in a leaked Signal message Deadline April 1st 2025 Donald Trump was captured in a successful coup overnight. The news was revealed in a leaked Signal message.  The instigators had mistakenly added the name of a British Journalist, Sandy Darricks, who posted a redacted version on X reproduced here Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's...

Send us Fan Mail This is a story which started with the editing of a textbook about leadership and is turning into a case study of the dilemma of leadership in the national health service... 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 F...

Send us Fan Mail Conspiracy theories. The assassination of President Kennedy In March 2025, a a bizarre example of a conspiracy theory occurred as the voluminous records of the assassination of President Kennedy were released for public scrutiny. At almost the same time, a conspiracy theory developed that the assassination had been carried out by a popular English television actress of the time, P...

Send us Fan Mail England’s football team has a new manager, Thomas Teuchel. According to the British football pundits, the role is one the hardest in the world in which an incumbent can succeed. This in part is an indisputable measure of a national team’s success, namely winning the highest of prizes,  the World Cup. The significance has grown since the failure to win the Cup since 1966. Stay up-t...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom March 2025 The news continues to be dominated by Trumpet calls from the West (Wing). Are we yet at peak Trump? @HagwithAttitude Forgot to tell you of my great achievement yesterday!!! I managed to open a pack of bacon using the ‘peel here’ tab, and not the kitchen knife! Me I’m adding that to my examples of Everyday Creativity The Free Press “For Americans who still...

Send us Fan Mail BBC 2 attempts to do for chess what Like Littler is doing for darts, generate mass interest in a niche sport. I watch with mixed emotions, having turned down an invitation to take part mainly out of cowardice. So watch out for a version of non-buyer’s regret in my commentary on the first episode of Chess Masters: The Endgame So, here’s my take on the event. I settle in sofa commen...

Send us Fan Mail The Glorious Victory of the B team adds a Footnote to Chess History It is well known in our league that East Cheadle Chess club B team also known as the east Chile buffaloes are prone to surprise their opponents, often scoring well in unexpected ways. And so it was recently as reported by our inspiring captain Jim.  I have taken his graceful elegantly scripted account and added a...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom, late February 2025 Still heavily biased towards political posts. I tried and failed to find a wider set… Me PMQs 6 questions about a refugee permitted entry to the U.K.  2 questions about sorting out Donald Trump 0 questions about the Gaza ceasefire 0 questions about global warming 0 questions about the economy Did I miss anything? @NicholasTyrone I’m always amazed...

Send us Fan Mail Sporting Dilemmas. The Case of the Virtual Assistant Referee. Sporting progress has always been measured. The metrics may vary, but the prize goes to athlete or team considered to have carried out the best performance, be it speed, distance, height, accuracy of core tasks or endurance. Sport requires judgement.  As a sport develops and becomes professionalised so do the role of ju...

Send us Fan Mail The rarely-played Trumposki gambit has hit the headlines for its continued use by its devoted followers who believe it to be the greatest gambit of all time.  The gambit was played in an acrimonious match in the  opulent settings of the Trumposki Towers recently. The match, sponsored by Aeroflot airlines, was played according the Newchess rules, in which the home team has a second...

Send us Fan Mail In our league match this week, the most interesting point about my game was how I managed to convert a completely lost position into a draw. I’m not sure how much is Chess skill and how much is a psychology applied to escape from defeat. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativit...

Send us Fan Mail Chinese leadership from Mao to Xi. A review of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, by Tsang and Cheung. To understand the role played by Xi Jinping in shaping China’s future it is necessary to understand the revolutionary origins of the State. The birth of the nation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) occurred under the charismatic leadership of Chairman Mao.  Mao Zedong fit...

Send us Fan Mail The question was posed by a team of creativity researchers as the AI revolution of 2023-4 was in full swing. AI was setting new questions about the nature of work, and the capacity of computers to replace humans  Ref  Marrone, R., Cropley, D., & Medeiros, K. (2024). How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity? Creativity Research Journal , 1–11.  Writing in a leading creativity...

Send us Fan Mail Invitation and call for ideas. CIM Community Meeting, March 2025 As invited by the Editorial Board I have submitted an idea for consideration at the CIM Community Meeting, March 2025 The Idea: Proposal for collaboration with CIM for contributions to the new edition of Dilemmas of Leadership Proposer: Tudor Rickards I am inviting contributions, initially in the form of citations of...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a hard time to be a Manchester United supporter. Many are seeking therapy to cope with their anguish over the last few years. They had seen the super club under super Manager Alex Ferguson drop down the GLOBAL rankings and even worse  have had to suffer the indignity of accepting that United is no longer even the strongest club in Manchester, out spent and out competed by the...

Send us Fan Mail Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards, based on an Associated Press statement. AP statement on Oval Office access, Wed 12 February 2025 QUOTE Today we were informed by the White House that if associated press did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America associated press would be banned from a...

Send us Fan Mail @ShoelMolvi I am getting married on Feb 30th.. Everyone is invited  Me I thought you said it was going to be April 1st Two from the witty Doctor @DocAtCDI Son: Dad, I had a test at school today. Dad: Oh yeah, what was it on? Son: Paper. and for his follow up What does Arnold Schwarzenegger say at the beginning of a game of chess?  I’ll be black. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor&a...

Send us Fan Mail Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Spoken by Tudor Rickards I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's...

Send us Fan Mail Chasing after moonbeams: The human quest for knowledge of the future The search for emerging trends is as old as the human quest to understand and influence the future. As civilisations arose, so did men and women were whose views were treated with respect and who were regarded as having mystic powers. Perhaps the most famous,even to the present day, was the Oracle at Delphi. The...

Send us Fan Mail Another humorous collection of posts, but some also marking the tragic Washington DC air crash in the last days of the month. @ShoebMolvi After the storm, Dave’s worried about the caravan in his front garden, as he didn't have one yesterday👀 @gardnerstewart39 Morrisons have run out of haggises. It's a bit late to be rushing to Scotland to catch one in the wild. I though...

Send us Fan Mail January 31, 2020 was the day the UK formally left the EU. It was celebrated by the victorious Leave voters celebrated 'freedom day' with a grand party and Big Ben ringing out the joyous news. It was also a day when the first victims of what was going to become the COVID pandemic were hospitalised. This is a summary of my notes at the time, concluding my five year diary s...

Send us Fan Mail When the water drops and refreezes’: Where do new ideas come from? ‘ That happens when the water drops from the guttering, and refreezes’ I said to myself. The ice had formed in an unexpected way and I had arrived at an explanation for my observation. ‘When the water drops and refreezes’ stayed in my consciousness as a promising first line for a poem. I could easily have become in...

Send us Fan Mail Did Donald Trump contribute to the crash in share prices in his first week? As Donald Trump’s first week of his second term as President came to an end, the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek sent the stock markets plunging with claims of matching leading chatbots with substantially lower computer chip costs. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500...