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Send us Fan Mail For many years, local elections in England have been brightened by the appearance of a bizarre figure dressed in a surreal costume topped by  a space age dustbin. Some have been angered by what they see as making a mockery of the sacred democratic process. Others have celebrated it as an example of quirky English humour lighting up the drab political scene. Count Binface grabbed t...

Send us Fan Mail Coming up with a new idea for a product is one of those examples of a search for everyday creativity. The challenge crops up in a wide range of contexts and the approach I’m going to describe is one of various ways of carrying out a successful search.  It can, however, be applied across a wide range of practical situations. I will take an example an attempt to provide a title for...

Send us Fan Mail As regular listeners to my audio casts will know, I am addicted to detective thrillers and particularly to those in the so-called golden age roughly between the first and second world wars. Among the galaxy of star writers, one blazed more brightly than the others. Agatha Christie‘s personal life has become as much a mystery in several ways as those fictional mysteries which broug...

Send us Fan Mail Keir Starmer’s historic final hours as prime minister. Shortly after 9 am, it was clear the moment was imminent, when he and his wife Victoria appeared in front of No 10 Downing Street.  It is often a symbolic changing of the political guard. Staff from No 10 are in the street applauding.  Starmer begins the most difficult speech he has ever had to make… Stay up-to-date with all o...

Send us Fan Mail Over the course of many years, I had probably over quoted the story about Archimedes and his moment of discovery which has become known as the Eureka phenomenon. As it gets taught in universities around the world, Archimedes discovered his famous principle while in his bath prompting him to leap out and run through the streets of Athens crying something loosely transliterated into...

Send us Fan Mail I’m still getting my head around what I witnessed watching Question Time, yesterday evening. I was attracted to the idea of the programme with the leading candidates in the Makerfield by-election.  Some years ago, I enjoyed Question Time,  when it permitted intelligent debate between guests with interventions from the audience. This seemed to change with the departure of the autho...

Send us Fan Mail The question of copyright has become a hot issue with the rise of creative products assisted by artificial intelligence systems. I started thinking about this recently with a specific case example. It cropped up the work directed by Jonathan Levitt in  producing a wide range of songs supported by his lyric writers, including myself, with Stephen Tranter, and a range of distinguish...

Send us Fan Mail This example of dark Russian humour was published on X translated from a Portuguese  source.  The story is about the interrogation of President Putin in a question and answer session at a Russian school. The first question is from Sasha…. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativi...

Send us Fan Mail How to spot a traitor This audio Post was triggered by the timing of my return from a visit to my tennis club every Saturday morning. I still enjoy listening to radio five for the sports programs. On Saturdays, there is a problem called ‘spot the traitor’. It involves three football fans, each eulogising on the football team. However, one of the fans is fake, a traitor if you like...

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Send us Fan Mail I use Amazon a lot. But my appreciation of Amazon’s outstanding delivery service goes along with a considerable concern I have about the impact of its business practices at a local and a global level.  I asked Dr Google ‘Why is Amazon criticised for its business practices?’ This is what I learned … Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commen...

Send us Fan Mail Celtic win breaks Hearts Hearts football club lost the title in a race they had been leading through throughout most of the season too many times champions Celtic. They lost in a devastating fashion at the last minute. Celtic have been serial winners of the competition. Hearts have never won it. Celtic fans enjoyed that fantastic moment.  Hearts returned to their home territory wh...

Send us Fan Mail Yesterday I was left feeling depressed at what I saw as hideous bias in the coverage of the upcoming local elections. Very late, I knew what I wanted to happen and feared it was probably too late   How to warn people about voting for charlatans? Wouldn’t it be wonderful, I asked myself, if everyone could listen to my message before they cast their votes on Thursday. After that the...

Send us Fan Mail It is now nearly a year since I became involved in a music-making project. The music is generated by an AI system by one member of a small team. This may become a more common approach to generating music which also has implications for theory and practice. We have now reached the inevitable stage of a start-up operation, namely the creation of a website. As a starting point, our t...

Send us Fan Mail Life is sadness, life’s a bitch I thought it might be interesting to record an audiotape about the origins of a song currently being worked on by music-making colleague GM Jon. Sometimes you can trace an idea to some starting event. In this case, it was a suggestion from Jon that we should put together several candidate lyrics on the general topic of old age.  The idea struck me a...

Send us Fan Mail I came across a splendid analysis of the weakness of relying on natural talent, in a piece published in the Quora website. The author publishes under the title Halftime Legend. It makes sense, and may even contribute to the debate on the nature of creativity.  It may be of more interest to Chess players, than to other listeners to my podcasts. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Where do new ideas come from?  To compensate for my abysmal failure in steps per day, (according to my distance walked App)  I resort to the treadmill at my local gym.  Recently, the experience was weird. My pounding on the treadmill seemed to produce a reaction. It was as if as if the treadmill was telling me something. I interpreted its message as if I had been listening to a me...

Send us Fan Mail Written and narrated by Tudor Rickards  I cannot claim to have invented the Houdini tactic in chess. However, I hinted at it in one of my least successful books, The Double Houdini.  As will become obvious, the tactic does not work when you’re playing against a computer program.  This week, it contributed to a much needed victory by our second team, still with a fighting chance of...

Send us Fan Mail Every year, the masters golf championship at Augusta, Georgia gets worldwide television coverage. The traditions are well-known, including ritual acceptance by the winner of the iconic green jacket, handed over by last year‘s winner.  This year, a contingency plan was smoothly executed as Rory McIlroy became the first player since 2002 to defend the Augusta title successfully.  Bu...

Send us Fan Mail Donald Trump, in the midst of saving the world, finds time to excoriate his multiple enemies in a classic late-night rant on Truth Social... 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: 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

Send us Fan Mail Listeners to this podcast will be aware that I have borrowed its title from a recent Channel 4 documentary  entitled Kier Starmer: where did it all go wrong.  The broadcast triggered off a storm of criticism of its presenter Lewis Goodall, led by many disappointed supporters of his work in the United Kingdom, which had made him an icon of the left in a profession widely dominated...

Send us Fan Mail A rendition of poem based on a favourite in the days of radio broadcasting by the BBC. With some help from tennis partners this morning (Lindsay, Neil, and Gordon) we reassembled what we believe to be the first lines of the poem, and quickly tracked down the original… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsl...

Send us Fan Mail In the middle of the fantasy politics show starring Donald Trump, it was good for us to be reminded of some of the eccentric politicians that had recently departed the scene. One such figure was former speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. This week, impatient with the suggestions of lesser Mortals, Newt popped up to offer the world a dynamic solution to The Strai...

Send us Fan Mail Eze Kingsley  Ohaji posts on X about financial and political matters @ohajielom. His creative description of the war against Iran deserves wide circulation. Trump: Open the Strait in 48 hours or I strike your power plants. Iran: No. Trump: You have 48 hours. Iran: You said that already. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by sign...