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Send us Fan Mail Or that’s what I thought the news presenter said. What she actually meant was a great carnival is taking place. The Notting Hill carnival has been asleep for three years thanks to Covid. Now it’s the biggest bank holiday bash in the world, well, OK, in Europe.  Some two million people own the streets of Notting Hill from sunrise to silly o clock ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tud...

Send us Fan Mail Spoiler alert. Reveals details of the film Nope and its effect on impressionable young people 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 A short tribute the Hamlet's immortal dilemma, brought up to date for a friend facing a job interview.  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....

Send us Fan Mail Steve the Didsbury poet seeks help with publishing his work 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 An Olive Branch to the 1%…And Mankind A poem by Steve Jaffa Brown Read by Tudor Rickards 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 Has the BBC has lost its way as a news broadcaster, and does it matter? This morning I switched on my default radio station, Radio 5, for breaking news, and realised its gradual deterioration over a period of years. The shock is one like the mythical frog immersed in a pot of water which is gradually warmed up until the frog is boiled. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podc...

Send us Fan Mail This is a story of a 4,500 mile cycle ride with it’s 1000 mile perimeter.  As mathematicians among you will have worked out, it is a roughly circular ride. And, it must be said, poses the immediate question ‘why?’ 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 I reviewed this podcast after England Cricket suffered two humiliating defeats against Australia in December 2025. As homo-sapiens developed, our ancestors learned increasingly smart ways of surviving, which give them an edge over their predators. We became evidence of the theory of natural selection and survival  of the fittest. Sometimes, an individual would flourish by a sort o...

Send us Fan Mail Euston Station, the gateway to the North, falls silent. But the silence, as the saying goes, speaks louder than words. A BBC reporter has been dispatched the record the sound of silence. As she reports, and as we can see, the great departures lounge is deserted. ‘Good morning from a very eerie Euston station, where the first train doesn’t leave for an hour’. Outside, there is a pi...

Send us Fan Mail Drought declared in Manchester, home of the perpetual rain. Mancunians shake their heads in astonishment.  Gardens are parched dry. Budgeons run out of bottled water. Tankers from Scotland are being hijacked and their precious loads sold on the black market to thirsty southerners. As dusk falls, I stare hopefully at darkening clouds. I go into the garden and look up. They appear t...

Send us Fan Mail An everyday visit to the Deli reveals the dark workings of a cult intent on destroying our British heritage 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.w...

Send us Fan Mail Thought for the day. ‘When this bloody war is over …’ Oh, what a lovely war is one of the great anti-war films of all time. A scene sticks in the memory. The regiment at prayer. The chaplain in gleaming white garments that would have been fit for officiating in a royal funeral stands before the battalion.  The introduction is reverent. The voices of the young soldiers rise earnest...

Send us Fan Mail Ghosts haunt the ground at Old Trafford. I used to go regularly to old Trafford with an old friend when his son was unable to use his season ticket. I remember the last mile walk.  Having left the car in the hands of unofficial but secure guardian of a plot of development land off the Stretford Road, we went with the flow of traffic heading for the Ground. Our journey was hindered...

Send us Fan Mail We wake as from a dream. Everyone knows the truth for the first time. From Deven to Dundee, someone stole out dental service. Of course, if you can pay to see a dentist that’s OK, once you pass the guardians to the surgery. I mean the electronic barrier which takes down the essential details surgical and financial. But this is an expensive route to root surgery, if you see what I...

Send us Fan Mail Calm down, it’s hardly a crisis. Don’t panic. I am calm. I’m not panicking. You don’t sound calm. You don’t talk to yourself unless you are in a gibbering panic. I’m not gibbering. I’m thinking it through. I’m late for morning tennis. The kitchen looks as if it’s been the scene of an exploding porridge bomb ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current a...

Send us Fan Mail This morning I met Steve the Poet He was eating his toastie breakfast outside the Deli. 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 The news bulletins describe the efforts of Archie's family to delay the court decision that his medical treatment may be discontinued by his medical team. 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 Catherine returns from her holiday, with news of an exciting new game for a family group.  As the story of murder and deceit unfolds, it reveals the excitements and perils in store for the participants ... 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...

Send us Fan Mail In earlier posts, I suggested that everyday creativity amounts to a thought translated into actions. The millions of tweets generated every day, gives us an excellent laboratory-setting for studying everyday creativity.  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...

Send us Fan Mail Yes. The lionesses only went and done it! We done it!! And without crowd violence or pitch invasion. A pushy interviewer left gasping, as Chloe Kelly, who came on as super sub, dropped the mike saying ‘I jus’ want to celebrate with my team mates and sing Sweet Caroline’ and she did.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing...

Send us Fan Mail The headlines are striking. ‘Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven year old opponent’ The vicious act of nipper nipping took place in a demonstration event in Moscow. The robot has been programmed in turn-taking. Its opponent moves a piece from one chess board square to another. The programme will recognise legal and illegal moves. But this time, something more serious happ...

Send us Fan Mail Did you see that, Holmes?  I exclaimed. My friend had been dozing gently in the veranda to the tennis club, where he had solved the case of the vanishing tennis balls (a fox had been appropriating them). I see a group lesson for school children continuing on the distant courts, well away from those allocated to members. I wanted to show I too, as a highly trained physician, could...

Send us Fan Mail The East Cheadle chess club is home to a top-secret government agency, but apart from that, deals with the everyday events found in chess clubs everywhere. The mythical chess club has figured in several of my detective stories of Wendy Lockinge, super sleuth, based at the equally mythical University of Urmston.  In the story of The Double Houdini, the club faced the humiliation of...

Send us Fan Mail On 2 September a mock obituary appeared in The Sporting Times. It read: In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29 August 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P. N.B.—The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. I mused about this today as I searched for the results of cricket’s county c...

Send us Fan Mail The sensational news of the Return of Boris Johnson breaks to a stunned Conservative Party overnight. But moves are being preparing for a hasty counter-attack, at a Motorway Station on the M6. 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 Twi...