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Send us Fan Mail At an event emphasising its self-importance,  The Ballon d'Or is an award presented annually by the French magazine France Football to honour the player judged  to have performed the best over the previous season. The event degenerated into one all too reminiscent of recent darts or boxing events. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs co...

Send us Fan Mail I open the door to my kitchen chiller to detect signs of life.  I didn’t need to check. No light.  I was experiencing one of the outages warned about by the government over the weekend. Storm damage has resulted in electricity outages around the country. Direct exploration outside confirmed stormy conditions and a blustering gale… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts,...

Send us Fan Mail A rabbi's response to our President calling Jews "lacking knowledge and disloyal" if they vote Democratic. 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 lead...

Send us Fan Mail This week, much of the Internet broke down, highlighting once again how vast parts of the web depend on a relatively small number of companies. Conspiracy theorists have drawn attention to cyber warfare as an imminent threat… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.co...

Send us Fan Mail The government’s decision to allow development of the Jackdaw gas field illustrates a recurring dilemma of leadership: how to reconcile competing priorities when each has legitimate claims.  The pursuit of energy security and economic interests sits in tension with concerns about global warming and the transition away from fossil fuels… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's pod...

Send us Fan Mail I am conducting my apprenticeship learning how to use ChatGPT.  One of my first trials demonstrated how the process works.  My problem was identifying a new local Business, which I believed to be some kind of music club. My conversation with ChatGPT went something like the following, which I have slightly abbreviated… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and cu...

Send us Fan Mail In this post, I’m quoting extensively from the work of Emmanuel Kant. It is a difficult listen, and I can only claim to grasp more and more of its significance after several readings… 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 @ Tu...

Send us Fan Mail Tudor Rickards I read and comment on an interview given by Anne Carson in *The Paris Review*. She talks about writing, understanding between people, translation, as well as hesitation, contradiction, and time. The interview gained attention after Anne Carson received the 2026 Nobel Prize for Poetry. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs comme...

Send us Fan Mail This week saw the announcement that the execution of Nidal Hasan, who shot dead 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, is to be live streamed to the American public. It is believed this would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century.  The decision to livestream it is "unprecedented in the modern era" and "on uncertain legal terrain," sa...

Send us Fan Mail In early autumn in the UK, each political party holds a conference. This is the context in which Conservative leader and Prime Minister in waiting Kemi Badenoch makes her speech today. These  events are primarily intended to whip up approval for the party faithful. This time-honoured process is now screened for wider consumption. For many years interest has been focused on the two...

Send us Fan Mail This informal audio message is intended for members of East Cheshire Chess Club who are now gearing up for the new season. A special welcome to new members. It may be of interest to others for its insights into workings of a typical enthusiastic but not always successful Club. Several books have been written about the fictionalised happenings to a mythical club East Cheadle… As Au...

Send us Fan Mail 30 September 2025 A General Election in the UK soon seems inevitable. That’s the startling conclusion reached by the respected political commentator Lord Adonis immediately after Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour Party Annual Conference. His analysis appeared in Prospect, which I have always found one of the UK’s more  balanced political journals… Stay up-to-date with all of Tud...

Send us Fan Mail At her retirement as German Chancellor, an entire nation to the homes and balconies to applaud for six minutes.  it was a unique tribute to a unique woman 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...

Send us Fan Mail I came across the expression recently and wondered where it originated. My latest research assistant ChatGPT informed me that the earliest documented print version appears in Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski's 1988 book Living Each Day. It says: “Hanging on to resentments is letting someone you don't like live rent-free inside your head.”  The phrase became widely associated wit...

Send us Fan Mail A BBC technology report last year drew attention to an open source AI system that is quietly becoming a major competitor to the emerging Western mega products. The controversy over DeepSeek has arisen because of accusations on intellectual property theft and its operation with strict political control. According to the BBC, DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence app that is...

Send us Fan Mail Recently, the potential for global chaos through rogue AI actions has become headline news.  This week, In mid September 2026, the news reported on the concerns of leading figures of the largest AI organisations. The king of England brought them together in a meeting urging responsible actions. While browsing the literature , I came across reference to normative frameworks as a me...

Send us Fan Mail This audiotape is a transcript translated into English of   an open letter written to President Trump by the distinguished Russian director and author Eduard Topol.  The letter was widely circulated on the Internet on September 13 2026. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativity...

Send us Fan Mail MacGillycuddy's Reeks: The Creation of a Folk Ballad MacGillycuddy's Reeks is a  ballad about a young woman abandoned on the eve of her wedding. This is the audio note  I made in turning an idea into a poem, on Friday 11 September 2026. Before I wrote a word of the poem, I wanted to imagine it as being sung by a young Irish folk singer, to whom I gave the name Sheilagh 0...

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Send us Fan Mail This is the story about a large scale operation, possibly illegal, in buying second hand books, scraping their contents before destroying the originals. It was drawn to my attention by a regular contributor to my newsletter who sent me this intriguing message. “I read this article a week or so ago, and it made me think about our conversation about your books being scanned for AI u...

Send us Fan Mail Nigel Farage defends the indefensible  This audio tape is the second dealing with The Channel 4 report on malpractices within the Reform party. It is offered as an example of how not to prepare a statement for public release if your intention is to clarify rather than to confuse.  The earlier tape can be heard under the title: Channel 4 does a number on Nigel Farage Stay up-to-dat...

Send us Fan Mail As the Channel 4 programme revealed, Mr Farage was filmed by undercover reporters from @Verbatim_Media as part of a year-long investigation that Channel 4 News has thoroughly checked and verified. This meeting took place in his Clacton constituency in July - when Mr Farage was fighting a by-election he called after separate allegations about his finances… Stay up-to-date with all...

Send us Fan Mail ChatGBT helps me understand Andy Burnham's first policy statement as Prime Minister. The news headlines  tended to tell us more about their political leadings than the statement to the House. As The Spectator saw it ‘Reviews of his debut yesterday are mixed, with most papers this morning focusing on his blaming of Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for Britain’s problems’.  I found...

Send us Fan Mail This audio text replicates contents of a post on X by the American social influencer Jeff Bullas. Jeff has granted permission for me to present his material, which I believe addresses one of the urgent challenges of the AI world. @jeffbullas posts Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email 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