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Send us Fan Mail Watching the decisions coming from Rishi Sunak’s team in its first weeks, reminds me very much of student teams I have come across, struggling to make sense of the problems they are facing. Are we watching a team from hell facing increasing internal conflicts and eventual self-destruction? Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by s...

Send us Fan Mail Elon Musk has finally clinched the on-off deal for Twitter with a deal quoted as an over-priced $44 billion. He is now proposing an extension of the site’s blue tick badge scheme for $8 a month. Millions of users are threatening to quit. His actions  over the last few months have been that of an enormously wealthy vaccilating adolescent. At times he reflected market opinion that h...

Send us Fan Mail A short podcast illustrating how ideas flow in a team environment. A news report of the discovery of a rare mushroom was reported. The news item triggered off other ideas including a short story about Megan and her Lonely Mushroom. Contributors Mike Ogden who warned of the dangers of talking about magic mushrooms William Thompson who came up with the idea of Megan and her lonely m...

Send us Fan Mail I am at war. My enemy has overwhelming forces. Like many a conflict, my territory has been invaded in a lightening attack. In this case, by an army of fruit flies. I am battling to repel the mini-squadrons but to little avail... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane receives a series of visitors at his hospital bed, but struggles to identify reality from hallucinations.   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 leaders...

Send us Fan Mail In his first day as PM, Rishi Sunak assembled a Cabinet. He has included members regardless of political differences. This differs from the decisions of Boris Johnson, and even more so of Liz Truss who preferred the approach of choosing loyalists. The most controversial appointment is Suella Braverman, purveyor of right wing muscular views on immigration. Braverman is popular with...

Send us Fan Mail The story is picked by Hugo Mifflin head of Personnel at Meniscus Laboratories.  We learn of a long-running feud at Meniscus involving John Keane, and a fellow scientist, Julian Callender, which may have influenced John Keane in his departure for Urmston University. His health had deteriorated and is experiencing a period of recovery for hospitalisation. The head of the Laboratory...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane has left Urmson on a secondment to Urmston University organised by his academic manager, Montague Beamer. He has met the University Vice-Chancellor Wendy Lockinge who seems interested in his earlier meeting with the mysterious old man. At breakfast one day, he meets the celebrity academic Tony Scrivener, the glamorous student Hudson Baye, and briefly, the student activi...

Send us Fan Mail On the day a new Prime Minister was appointed, after the brief reign of the last one, strains of a song filtered through an open bathroom window.  It may have been a gleeful party activist but whether for the Conservative Party or the opposition is not clear... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! ...

Send us Fan Mail John Keane encounters a mysterious old man who tells him about an ancient  secret society which passes on their secrets  by means of books each written by an author who is a member of the society. He is directed to study the masterwork by the Economist Maynard Keynes, and told he will be contacted later by the old man. He is later invited to a meeting at Urmston University, by Mon...

Send us Fan Mail This has been the craziest week in U.K. politics since we cut off the head of King Charles 1st. Highlights included the sacking of top cabinet leaders, a lettuce becoming a joke measure of political survival time, the resignation of our Prime Minister, and Larry the Downing Street Cat seeing off a  marauding fox. Of, yes and now a speed-dating version of Eenie, Meenie, Mindy, Moe...

Send us Fan Mail Friday 14 October. Overnight, The Chancellor Kwasi Kwartang (KK)  has cut short his American trip, and is returning for discussions with Liz Truss.  Midday. News leaks out that KK is to resign as Chancellor, or be sacked.  BBC news is on full political crisis alert. The BBC1 Politics Live show has its customary spectrum of opinion pundits.  KK has left his post, sacked or resigned...

Send us Fan Mail This is only the third PMQs since Liz Truss began her ill-fated Premiership. Since then, her original plan has been hung drawn and quartered, by market reaction, and this week by her replacement Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. One pressure point is the so-called triple-lock on pensions.  My summary notes are abbreviated, but capture the general tenor of a noisy session. But the PMs trava...

Send us Fan Mail Chess, like other sports such as cricket, has speeded up aided by electronic clocks and fast versions of the game. in this podcast, I look at the under-appreciated innovation which ended the era of timeless chess. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Friday 14 October. 8.00am Overnight, The Chancellor, Kwasi Kuarteng has cut short his American trip, and is returning for discussions with Prime Minister Liz Truss.  Midday News leaked,  then the leak confirmed that Kwasi Kuarteng  is to resign as Chancellor, or be sacked.   BBC news is on full political crisis alert ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and...

Send us Fan Mail The BBC has granted Elon Musk a three one-hour mini-series on … Elon Musk.  Without charging him for three hours of advertising. First learning point. You don’t become the richest man in the world without being a great marketeer. The title is a hint that we are to watch show biz in its treatment. We are not disappointed.  The scene is set for a heroic tale of the childhood genius...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Lockinge looks back on her childhood and fast tracking into the police force, where she meets Robbie Lockinge.  He warns her that they can never have a life together unless she shares the secret of his undercover work for a Government agency.  She agrees, becomes a high-profile figure after her success bringing a multi-murderer to justice.  But her dreams are shattered when...

Send us Fan Mail Angela Lansbury, (1925-2022),  born in London, to an affluent family became one the best known film and TV actors in the world in a glittering career that spanned eight decades. A successful and entrepreneurial business woman she took control over the TV Show Murder she wrote that was to establish her fame. The title comes from Murder, She Said , a film adaptation of Agatha Christ...

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Tranter follows in the footsteps of John Gresham with his second court room drama. 'Can a noble outcome justify means that are despicable?' Martin muses, as he waits for the jury to return with their verdict .... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gma...

Send us Fan Mail Chronicles of Leadership is the first non-fiction book I wrote. It was published in 2016. It describes the first of what became several stories of Wendy Lockinge, family and colleagues at the fictional University of Urmston (a very much non-fictional town in Greater Manchester, England). In COL, Wendy Lockinge has problems. The former celebrity cop turned academic faces a drug cri...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Alex Gunz of the Alliance Manchester Business School discusses the unique nature of marketing in the twenty first century, and common pitfalls to avoid.  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 A scandal that rocked the chess world reached far wider headlines involving accusations of cheating, including a bizarre intervention my Elon Musk.  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:...

Send us Fan Mail An English version of the Welsh Folksong  (Oes Gafr Eto) has been added to the podcast: Have you seen my Goat there? Or a trace of Goat hair? Lost before the milking starts  Somewhere in the cold air What sort of goat there? Would you know it anywhere? Is the one you’re looking for Rather dark or quite fair? Refrain It’s all white white white White from lip to back it’s white Has...

Send us Fan Mail The Brecon Beacons are the looming highlands of South Wales. Remote, dotted with hill farms, whose owners which have eked out a living from their goats and sheep for centuries. There ‘s an entrepreneurial  spirit in these hill farmers. A thriving industry has sprung up.  Visitors can take part in the life cycle of the goats and sheep from birth to the sheering.  Other farms have e...

Send us Fan Mail Nearly a decade ago, I began a book which started my new career as a writer of campus detective stories. Here's the original blog published in Leaders We Deserve, converted into a podcast.   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...