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Send us Fan Mail The latest gun massacres in America has led to the predictable fruitless outcomes. President Biden expresses outrage, compassion for the victims, but with little sign of any effective initiative. Republicans continue to reject efforts to legislate to restrict access to high powered weapons like the ones used in the recent  killings at a school in Nashville last week. Outside the U...

Send us Fan Mail An interesting aspect of sporting excellence is the impact of being part of a sporting family. I decided to take advantage of a family visit recently to investigate how sport inspires them, and why each family member  eventually settled on their favourite sport or sports. Parents: Paul and Teresa Rickards Offspring Morgan, Freddy and Evan Rickards Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor...

Send us Fan Mail How to estimate your chess grade using Lichess Lesson 1 Getting started This lesson is for chess players who have never been given a chess grade. Your grade is an indication of your strength. You can use the podcast with halt and restarts to support your efforts So, step one.  Get acquainted with Lichess The first step. Log into  https://lichess.org/ Don’t be deterred by the compl...

Send us Fan Mail Finnish conservative leader Petteri Orpo has won a close three-way election race, defeating the centre left coalition led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin.  Marin had became a rockstar politician, with a rise and fall in her popularity similar to that of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern. Sanna Marin remains popular and has an impressive political record moving Finland towards entry into...

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Send us Fan Mail I report on one of my most instructive chess losses in my life. And that’s a lot of chess losses. Its lessons go far beyond the chess board. The painful experience took place in the last match of the season in Division one of the Stockport Chess League. But before I go further, I should mention why it reminds me of an old story about the boiled frog. The story, now accepted as a m...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Birthday , CAIM Creativity and innovation management journal has been an important part of my life for over 30 years. This year, the journal celebrates its 30th birthday and I almost forgot to send a birthday card.  Instead, here is my podcast to all my friends at the journal. If I go back in time, I remember that the journal came about after many years before when I practis...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, how are you? I gaze at the approaching stranger? My mind goes blank.  I manage to stop myself uttering the first words that came into my head. Sorry, do we know each other?  Now he’s shaking my hand. Vigourously. He is gentleman of mature age, smiling, but not in a frenzied fashion. If anything, too well-dressed and groomed to be one of my close acquaintances.  The family gath...

Send us Fan Mail Should creativity and chess be included in the Olympic Games? The immediate answer might be no. But as is often the case, the immediate answer might overlook some interesting discussion points. Creativity actually does take place in a sort of Olympic Games, as does chess. The Mind Sports Olympiad is a regular event. It has over 100 different competitions including Chess. There is...

Send us Fan Mail Tudorama offers three favourite jokes about penguins. Listeners are invited to send in their own jokes. You aren't confined to jokes about penguins ... 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&ap...

Send us Fan Mail My story goes back to 2015. I arrived early for the Executive Business Course at what was then the Manchester Business school. One of the executives had already arrived and was quietly working at a place he had chosen towards the back of the room, I started to arrange my notes for the course on leadership and change management. It was part of the induction period for a new cohort...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is written for use as a mini-case in creative leadership.  The news headlines for the past week have been dominated by a dispute between the BBC superstar football broadcaster Gary Lineker and his employers. To be more precise,  Gary is a contracted freelance broadcaster not a permanent member of staff. This is a detail which may have added a complication to what is a...

Send us Fan Mail March 2023 The death was announced this week of Dick Fosbury an American athlete who changed the  ways an entire sport is conducted and as a result wrote his name for ever into sporting history. Fosbury used his new technique to win the gold medal from the High Jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, setting a new Games record of 2.24 metres in the process. His revolutionar...

Send us Fan Mail My thought for the day begins with verses from the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 15 verses 1 and 18. A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Like all good thoughts for the day, mine is about something unexpected that happened to me recently. I was returning home from an appoin...

Send us Fan Mail The government has made stopping the small boats crossing the channel one of its five pledges on which to fight the next election. With opinion polls showing a continuing slump in support, will this turn out to be a political masterstroke, or a further blunder from a doomed administration? I seek the advice of Mandy, the hairdresser.  Wednesday 8 March 9.00am Seems to me this is a...

Send us Fan Mail Red side of Manchester in mourning after Liverpool mauling Sunday 5 March, 2023 The darkest of night is descending on Manchester United supporters. A few yours ago a great humiliation to its team took place at Anfield, home of its greatest rivals, Liverpool. The run up had been spectacularly successful. In the space of two weeks the team had won a tight European knockout match aga...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is from The Double Houdini, a book about chess, but written for players of all strengths and for non chess players. The story is a lightly fictionalised one about the struggles of a chess club, The East Cheadle Chess Club to survive relegation of both its teams in the East Cheshire Chess League. The author and relator of the story has had a run of games in which he ma...

Send us Fan Mail Wednesday March 1st 2023 Two different stories this week seem to have overlapping messages. I have been reading the thriller Whistle Blower by TV journalist Robert Peston. Then today  a media scoop arrives from journalist Isobel Oakeshott, and published in the Daily Telegraph. Peston describes the grubby world of the political journalist in a fictionalised way which clearly draws...

Send us Fan Mail At 30.30 in the afternoon of February, 27 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stands alongside Ursula van der Leyden, the EU President at a hotel in Windsor. He announces a political breakthrough of historic importance to assembled journalists and a worldwide television audience.  I retain my audio notes and immediate reactions without editing. The PM introduces the arrival of a replacemen...

Send us Fan Mail The political and twitter talking point of the week was the result of a statement in the House of Commons by environmental secretary, Terese Coffey. She was dealing with a shortage of fresh fruit and particularly of tomatoes in many English supermarkets. Photographs of empty shelves in supermarkets appeared on Twitter, various explanations being offered.  Curiously, the BBC carefu...

Send us Fan Mail William Thompson has coached and played sports to the highest levels, from fencing to football. He is interviewed shortly after a strenuous  tennis session in the luxurious players lounge at the Northern Tennis Club, Didsbury where he is always willing to share his wisdom. TR Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to o...

Send us Fan Mail This is a dark day. Outside, grey Manchester skies loom over damp pavements. Inside, my own mood is equally dark. Yesterday evening, I was preparing to eat a meal whipped up from an ancient can of beans and a residual piece of gammon I discovered lurking at the back of the freezer. A phone call from acting captain John, Reed, of East Cheshire chess Club. Are you playing tonight? h...

Send us Fan Mail Guardian journalist Phillipa Kelly carried out interviews with 100 centenarians. The summary of her results reported recently offers excellent material for a research study.  Her article has the title  ‘100 tips for a life well-lived’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/18/100-centenarians-100-tips-for-a-life-well-lived Shortly after I started reading the article, I had t...

Send us Fan Mail I am recovering my composure after a close encounter I had with an angry man this morning. It took place outside the deli in Lapwing Lane, where the Didsbury, philosophical and literary society meets, to discuss such issues as the nature of time, the doubts cast on string theory, and the ethics of pulling off a single banana, leaving an incomplete hand for other fresh-fruit purcha...

Send us Fan Mail I could see Dr Glycol was in a good mood. His eyes shone behind his prescription glasses as he was leaving  the fresh fruit shop. Progress he said. Progress for all consumers of fresh fruit.  My  experiments are confined to raspberries and blueberries at present, but they seem likely to apply other soft fruit as well. I was impressed. This year, raspberries in particular seem to t...