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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...

Send us Fan Mail Among the flurry of executive orders announced by President Trump arriving in office in January 20, 2025, was  Executive Order 14171, directed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes in government...  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...

Send us Fan Mail At first sight, Chess and darts seem very different games. This week, several coincidences drew my attention to an unexpected similarity. At Chess this week, I had watched the remarkable emergence of gifted young chess players taking apart their seniors during a local Chess league match. No real surprise there, as it mainly reinforced the trend of young Chess players out-performin...

Send us Fan Mail A lengthier than usual audiopost. These posts included are heavily against President Trump and his actions. Also, one commentator, @Acyn has been particularly prolific. I will try harder to search for more posts supportive of the new President in future collections.  @Scaramucci Launch of Melania coin is causing Trump coin to crash. Elon was right, we are living in a simulation. W...

Send us Fan Mail Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards  Wednesday 22 January, 2025 Nearly 20 years ago, a friend asked me why I was thinking of putting things on the web. I didn’t know, and said it all looked very interesting. A few years later, another friend asked me why I wanted to play around with Twitter.  I said I wanted to try it out. Fast forward another ten years or so, and yet another col...

Send us Fan Mail Baron Munchausen and his Father Donald A story for our times  This is the story of Baron Munchausen also known as Baron the younger, and his father, Donald the elder.  It seems that the Munchausen line had a rare genetic disorder, which leads to an incapability to distinguish been truth and falsehoods leading at times to assertions that other people considered to be impossible cla...

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Send us Fan Mail Wokeness. How a concept became a political battleground Notes for a discussion Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards January 13, 2025 The widespread use of the term Woke has been attributed to the American folk and blues singer Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-2049), better known as Lead Belly.  In his  performances to people of colour, he popularised the injunction ‘Stay woke’, (sta...

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Send us Fan Mail The ‘Test next week’ logic puzzle Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards January 1st, 2025 A teacher tells her class  "I’m going to give you a test one day next week. I will not tell you the day, so that it will be a surprise for you". This is a well-known puzzle in logic. Is the teacher correct in saying that the day of the test will be a surprise to her students?  If you...

Send us Fan Mail A dramatic turn of events in the battle for the Sunday morning doubles tennis trophy. The long-awaited final tennis match of the year ended unexpectedly in late December, in a cancellation.  Injuries, and it must be admitted, advancing years, have taken their toll on the competitors. The event at the Northern tennis, squash, and Paddle centre,  has been competed for over several d...

Send us Fan Mail Heroic Failure: Brexit and the politics of pain, by Fintan O’Toole A review written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 28 December, 2024 Heroic Failure examines the nature of Brexit from the perspective of an Irish historian and political commentator. His central proposal contributes to a wider concept often described as English exceptionism parodied gently in the Flanders and Swann bal...

Send us Fan Mail An undated version for festive enjoyment... 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 Lord  Mandelson, and a diplomatic comparison with Nigel Farage  Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards  20 December, 2024 Yesterday, Thursday 19 December, the news broke that Lord Mandelson was about to be confirmed as British Ambassador to the United States. Mandelson had a controversial political career, often making headlines for colourful newsworthy stories about his private lif...

Send us Fan Mail How Donald Trump’s long connection with professional wrestling helps us understand his effectiveness at manipulating reality. Prepared and spoken by Tudor Rickards 19 December 2024, drawing on Goldman, A.J., ‘How Trump turned the elections into a wrestling match’, Published 12 September 2024, on the University of Lund website,   https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-trump-t...

Send us Fan Mail Understanding Artificial Intelligence through the lens of creativity.  Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 14 December 2024 AI researchers have found creativity to be a valuable conceptual tool or lens for thinking about the nature of Artificial Intelligence. One of the leading creativity researchers, Professor Mark Runco, wrote one of the most cited articles making a claim to st...

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Send us Fan Mail A disturbing discovery in creative education. The rise of theory-lite courses Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards December 5 2024 In researching for a revised edition of my textbook Dilemmas of Leadership, over the period August-December, 2024, I have become increasingly disturbed about the lack of progress in the field of teaching materials on offer about the nature of creativit...