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Send us Fan Mail Learning to play backgammon Lesson one Learning about the bits and the board. Take the bits out of the box You will find you have fifteen white bits and fifteen black bits. Or chequers as they are called. Look at the board. Notice it before you put any pieces, aka as chequers, on it. It looks complicated, but it isn’t once you see its basic pattern. Lay it open. It’s actually two...

Send us Fan Mail In a recent article in the CNN newsletter,  Stephen Collinson, Caitlin Hi and Shelby Rose provide excellent insights into effective political processes.  President Biden and Speaker McCathy seem to have avoided what was becoming a crisis which would have plunged the greatest economy in the world into fiscal melt-down. Experienced commentators have noted this as the latest of regul...

Send us Fan Mail Wednesday 31 May 2023   The headlines today. The Daily Mail  ‘A.I. ‘Could wipe out humanity’. Threat as bad as nuclear war’ MUST be tackled, say tech bosses. The Independent AI creators fear the extinction of humanity. The Times AI pioneers fear extinction The source of these headlines is a newly formed pressure group, The Centre for AI Safety, whose authority is underwritten by t...

Send us Fan Mail   Monday, 29 May I can hardly behave what I have just heard. It is late morning of the fourth of our recent Great British Bank Holidays, part of a scheme by the Govt intended to distract the voters from unpopular economic news.  I am approaching a little group of friends outside a local deli in Didsbury, across the road from the famous northern tennis club. Even from a distance, i...

Send us Fan Mail The writer Martin Amis, (1949-2023), died this week after a life in the literary spotlight.  His appointment as a professor at Manchester University, in the late 2000s resulted in a storm in a literary tea-cup. The academic spat was stirred up with some help from the Guardian. However, in that paper’s obituary this week, it is glossed over, within a brief comment about ‘his stints...

Send us Fan Mail In the memorial event in his honour at the Edward de Bono Institute of the University of Malta, in May 2023, I offer a personal perspective, reflecting on creativity drawing on my own work, and Edward’s direct and indirect impact on it. First, everyday creativity. My work on Everyday Creativity was influenced by the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and later by the  american educ...

Send us Fan Mail A selection of my favourite tweets posted in late May 2023. As ever, political and ironic comments dominate ...   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 leaderswedes...

Send us Fan Mail How to tell a mother that her son is about to be decapitated?  Is this a blurb for a gory thriller? No. It’s about real-life situation involving a severed head witnessed by an unsuspecting mother.  Let me explain. I’m afraid this involves a spoiler alert if you want at sometime in the  future  to watch a performance of Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline.  My story involves the productio...

Send us Fan Mail Book marketing remains a dark art. Particularly for debut authors. There is no simple formula, and I won’t be supplying one here. What I want to share is the cover blurb for the book, ‘I Will Find You’ by best-selling author Harlen Coben, and discuss some of ways it has been crafted to achieve maximum impact.  I came across the book as I browsed the new thrillers section of my loc...

Send us Fan Mail By popular demand, I have selected a collection of my favourite tweets from the first weeks of May 2023. Hope you enjoy them 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.u...

Send us Fan Mail Socialite and bon viveur William paused briefly in his hectic schedule of celebrity events to recall the success of the Coronation party held in the grounds of his estate in the rolling countryside commuter belt to the south of Manchester... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreat...

Send us Fan Mail In the memorial event in his honour at the Edward de Bono Institute of the University of Malta, I would like to offer a personal perspective, reflecting on his life and his contributions to creativity. Edward de Bono, is perhaps the most influential communicator on the nature of creative thinking in recent times. His fame came early through his book Lateral Thinking, first publish...

Send us Fan Mail If I were a cat, you might say that this week I lost one of my proverbial nine lives. I was driving home from a game of tennis at the Wimbledon of the North, aka The Northern Squash and Tennis Club. It was a crisp morning with clear blue skies. The traffic was light as I approached the turn-off at the new relief road to the airport. What happened next is partly blotted out from my...

Send us Fan Mail The Coronation of Charles the third in London this week has made news around the world. But I want to share news of another Coronation which deserves more publicity. I’m referring to the coronation of Ding Lauren, who was crowned as World Chess Champion.  Ding, although a youthful prodigy, in his native China, never shot to stardom, but progressed sedately to become a strong grand...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle O’Neill is nominated Leader of the Month for April 2023 by the Leaders we deserve blog. Her current political label is First Minister Designate of Northern Ireland.  The selection of  Sinn Féin’s vice-president, Michelle O’Neill, is more controversial than many others. She will become the First Minister of the Northern Ireland assembly at Stormount, currently in limbo thr...

Send us Fan Mail Richard Sharp was appointed  as Director General of the BBC (The Chairman, in business speak) in 2021. He has been mired in controversy ever since.  A recent decision resulted in the high profile standing-down by the BBC of Gary Lineker, and a hasty and somewhat fudged reinstatement of the football commentator.  Mr Sharp’s resignation today followed the criticisms in the findings...

Send us Fan Mail To begin at the beginning. My story is about the power of the Hollywood dream machine. But it is also Welsh. Very Welsh, as you will soon hear.  The non-league football club of Wrexham,  a  town tucked away in   the borders of North Wales, attracts the attention of two Hollywood movie stars, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney The story was always destined to turn into a Hollywood bl...

Send us Fan Mail I was preparing for the Govt emergency warning trial, when another phonemail interrupted me with far more important news. I decided to complete my bath, an increasingly necessary part of maintaining my body in fine shape after a gruelling game of doubles tennis this morning. But when I replied to the phone call I found myself listening to a very proud mum, bursting to share some s...

Send us Fan Mail I interview Dr Murray Clark, an expert on trust-based leadership, and the current case involving Dominic Raab. Murray is co-author of our book Dilemmas of Leadership. He kindly interrupted his holiday preparations for the interview which explains the sound quality which even Buzzsprout editing could not improve. Murray explains how gaining trust is 'a two-way street'. We...

Send us Fan Mail Rishi Sunak faces a serious leadership problem dealing with the report of the bullying accusations made about his deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab. This leaves the Prime Minister facing the classic leadership dilemma of facing two unpalatable options of sacking Raab or supporting him. He will find a valuable lesson to the response by Elon Musk to his space flight yesterday  whic...

Send us Fan Mail The scene is set in Snip hairdressers, Somewhere in the Cheshire Blue Rinse belt A Customer arrives at the reception desk and smiles at the receptionist ... 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'...

Send us Fan Mail The National Park in South Wales known as the Brecon Beacons has a new name. The switch - to Bannau Brycheiniog National Park - took effect on Monday 17 April 2023, its 66th anniversary. The Welsh name means "the peaks of Brychan's kingdom" and is pronounced ban-aye bruch-ein-iog, with the ch making the same sound as in loch. However, perhaps inevitably, the new nam...

Send us Fan Mail Twitter has seen substantial changes under the new ownership of Elon Musk. But some tweeters have retained their sense of humour, and often offered flashes of wisdom. Here are some twelve selected from the early weeks of April. Thanks to @deelomas (2 nominations) @ModigThe @MachTownclock @sturgess_steve @ArtCrunchy @MarieAnnUK  @SydesJokes @kercle @CosmopolitanUK @stephenfarrow @E...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the BBC has been reporting extensively on an interview with Elon Musk. In it, the new owner of Twitter declared his total commitment to accurate news reporting, and that they would be relabelling the BBC from a State Broadcaster to a Public Service Organisation. The interview had all the hallmarks of a whacky piece of show business. It had been triggered by a BBC report...

Send us Fan Mail 'In Bumble, Women are White'. I Came across this cryptic remark in an account reported in in the rather serious online forum Quora. To even to start to understand what seems like a provocative racially loaded statement you need to know that Bumble is an online dating site. Profiles of potential matches are displayed to users, who can "swipe left" to reject a ca...