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Send us Fan Mail As the Country suffers a severe reaction from the markets over her Mini-Budget, Liz Truss faces a round of local journalists. 'That didn't do too well' a supporter said sadly ...  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 T...

Send us Fan Mail This England, Sky Atlantic, is a ‘fictionalised version’ of the rise and fall of Boris Johnson. It seems fitting that its launch coincided over the first chaotic weeks of the Government picking up the mess inherited partly a result of his ignominious downfall...  We have Kenneth Branagh as a scarily convincing  Johnson extracting his likeable as well as his mock Churchillian roles...

Send us Fan Mail Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech at the Labour conference. His opening remarks capture the disarray of the Govt and the need for a Labour government. A round of applause, choreographed as they always are at party conferences. Too lengthy for the neutral observer. But BBC News rose to the occasion. The cameras focussed on Rachel Reeves. Because she wasn’t applauding enthusi...

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 Catherine Hull and Tudor Rickards Conor Glean of the Royal Shakespeare Company helps us understand the pageantry of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, and how Shakespeare might have approached writing a play about the Queen’s life. We interviewed Conor as a co-editors of the TudoRama newsletter the week following the royal funeral ceremonies in September 2022. Conor approached his first S...

Send us Fan Mail Among the tributes paid this week to Queen Elizabeth, has been steadfast commitment to her oath of service to her people. It is a slippery concept and frequently deployed by the powerful to buttress their position ... 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 sig...

Send us Fan Mail Lizzie Truss picked up an Axe And gave Keir Starmer forty whacks 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 recorded explanation with do's and dont's of resetting a password.  With grateful thanks to Mike Jackson, computer gardener extraordinary. The key advice is to find someone with IT experience. 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 It has become a commonplace to describe would-be revolutionaries as armchair warriors or armchair revolutionaries. The passion required to go into battle is for most people tempered by fearing the consequences of becoming a political street warrior. I became aware of my comfort zone in pontificating from the armchair position recently, as the political events around me spun crazil...

Send us Fan Mail The death of the Queen has sunk into the national consciousness, assisted by the loyal lockdown protecting us from any less significant distractions.  I am able to watch which is known as the proclamation ceremony, which has remained mostly unchanged since Elizabeth the first, with other bits stretching back to Anglo-Saxon times.  I consult my notes to ensure the accuracy of my re...

Send us Fan Mail On the death of her beloved Husband Albert, Queen Victoria began a period of mourning that lasted forty years to her death. It is considered today a somewhat extreme action by a person who never overcame the grief after her bereavement. When Diana, Prince of Wales died in a gruesome car crash in 1997, there was an outpouring of grief for the princess which has scarcely subsided fo...

Send us Fan Mail Tudorama reports on the first days in office of Liz Truss as Prime Minister.  Monday September 5th, 2022 8.00am BBC News reporters already out and about collecting the assorted voices of the people. Mostly are disinterested or dismayed. There are still four hours of mostly non-news to fill before Liz Truss is formally pronounced as the replacement PM for Boris Johnson. What seems...

Send us Fan Mail 6 September 2022. Liz Truss is appointed as Prime Minister.  I interview Laura about the day to day challenges of running a company. The brief interview took an unexpected  turn. I had been waiting for an opportunity to interview her as founder of her cleaning company, as well as her work as a sporting coach.  My opportunity came today when Laura found herself filling in for a mem...

Send us Fan Mail On the day the results of the voting for a new prime minister is announced, Catherine Hull, editor of the TudoRama newsletter interviews Tudor about creativity in politics and everyday life 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 Twitte...

Send us Fan Mail The Which periodical reports its two best visitor attractions in the UK.  But in this Thought for the Day   we consider the merits for the claim, and set a competition for listeners to the podcast. 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 o...

Send us Fan Mail I recently thought differently about something important to me. As its importance is only to myself, I would see it as an example of everyday creativity.   To share it with others, I posted it on Twitter, and started a note about the idea and how it began to suggest more ideas. The note turned into a conversation with myself. The tweet: What’s the best way to retain your love of l...

Send us Fan Mail Mikhail Gorbachev who died on the 39 August 2022 presided over the break up of the Soviet Union, with the subsequent  monumental political changes in Europe over the last thirty years. As such, his life deserves the attention it is receiving. His obituaries at the west are glowing, a reformer who brought freedom to a continent.  Boris Johnson, in one of his briefer and more though...

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...