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Send us Fan Mail Chinese leadership from Mao to Xi. A review of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, by Tsang and Cheung. To understand the role played by Xi Jinping in shaping China’s future it is necessary to understand the revolutionary origins of the State. The birth of the nation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) occurred under the charismatic leadership of Chairman Mao.  Mao Zedong fit...

Send us Fan Mail The question was posed by a team of creativity researchers as the AI revolution of 2023-4 was in full swing. AI was setting new questions about the nature of work, and the capacity of computers to replace humans  Ref  Marrone, R., Cropley, D., & Medeiros, K. (2024). How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity? Creativity Research Journal , 1–11.  Writing in a leading creativity...

Send us Fan Mail Invitation and call for ideas. CIM Community Meeting, March 2025 As invited by the Editorial Board I have submitted an idea for consideration at the CIM Community Meeting, March 2025 The Idea: Proposal for collaboration with CIM for contributions to the new edition of Dilemmas of Leadership Proposer: Tudor Rickards I am inviting contributions, initially in the form of citations of...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a hard time to be a Manchester United supporter. Many are seeking therapy to cope with their anguish over the last few years. They had seen the super club under super Manager Alex Ferguson drop down the GLOBAL rankings and even worse  have had to suffer the indignity of accepting that United is no longer even the strongest club in Manchester, out spent and out competed by the...

Send us Fan Mail Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards, based on an Associated Press statement. AP statement on Oval Office access, Wed 12 February 2025 QUOTE Today we were informed by the White House that if associated press did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America associated press would be banned from a...

Send us Fan Mail @ShoelMolvi I am getting married on Feb 30th.. Everyone is invited  Me I thought you said it was going to be April 1st Two from the witty Doctor @DocAtCDI Son: Dad, I had a test at school today. Dad: Oh yeah, what was it on? Son: Paper. and for his follow up What does Arnold Schwarzenegger say at the beginning of a game of chess?  I’ll be black. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor&a...

Send us Fan Mail Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Spoken by Tudor Rickards I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's...

Send us Fan Mail Chasing after moonbeams: The human quest for knowledge of the future The search for emerging trends is as old as the human quest to understand and influence the future. As civilisations arose, so did men and women were whose views were treated with respect and who were regarded as having mystic powers. Perhaps the most famous,even to the present day, was the Oracle at Delphi. The...

Send us Fan Mail Another humorous collection of posts, but some also marking the tragic Washington DC air crash in the last days of the month. @ShoebMolvi After the storm, Dave’s worried about the caravan in his front garden, as he didn't have one yesterday👀 @gardnerstewart39 Morrisons have run out of haggises. It's a bit late to be rushing to Scotland to catch one in the wild. I though...

Send us Fan Mail January 31, 2020 was the day the UK formally left the EU. It was celebrated by the victorious Leave voters celebrated 'freedom day' with a grand party and Big Ben ringing out the joyous news. It was also a day when the first victims of what was going to become the COVID pandemic were hospitalised. This is a summary of my notes at the time, concluding my five year diary s...

Send us Fan Mail When the water drops and refreezes’: Where do new ideas come from? ‘ That happens when the water drops from the guttering, and refreezes’ I said to myself. The ice had formed in an unexpected way and I had arrived at an explanation for my observation. ‘When the water drops and refreezes’ stayed in my consciousness as a promising first line for a poem. I could easily have become in...

Send us Fan Mail Did Donald Trump contribute to the crash in share prices in his first week? As Donald Trump’s first week of his second term as President came to an end, the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek sent the stock markets plunging with claims of matching leading chatbots with substantially lower computer chip costs. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500...

Send us Fan Mail Among the flurry of executive orders announced by President Trump arriving in office in January 20, 2025, was  Executive Order 14171, directed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes in government...  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...

Send us Fan Mail At first sight, Chess and darts seem very different games. This week, several coincidences drew my attention to an unexpected similarity. At Chess this week, I had watched the remarkable emergence of gifted young chess players taking apart their seniors during a local Chess league match. No real surprise there, as it mainly reinforced the trend of young Chess players out-performin...

Send us Fan Mail A lengthier than usual audiopost. These posts included are heavily against President Trump and his actions. Also, one commentator, @Acyn has been particularly prolific. I will try harder to search for more posts supportive of the new President in future collections.  @Scaramucci Launch of Melania coin is causing Trump coin to crash. Elon was right, we are living in a simulation. W...

Send us Fan Mail Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards  Wednesday 22 January, 2025 Nearly 20 years ago, a friend asked me why I was thinking of putting things on the web. I didn’t know, and said it all looked very interesting. A few years later, another friend asked me why I wanted to play around with Twitter.  I said I wanted to try it out. Fast forward another ten years or so, and yet another col...

Send us Fan Mail Baron Munchausen and his Father Donald A story for our times  This is the story of Baron Munchausen also known as Baron the younger, and his father, Donald the elder.  It seems that the Munchausen line had a rare genetic disorder, which leads to an incapability to distinguish been truth and falsehoods leading at times to assertions that other people considered to be impossible cla...

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Send us Fan Mail Wokeness. How a concept became a political battleground Notes for a discussion Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards January 13, 2025 The widespread use of the term Woke has been attributed to the American folk and blues singer Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-2049), better known as Lead Belly.  In his  performances to people of colour, he popularised the injunction ‘Stay woke’, (sta...

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Send us Fan Mail A classic who done it reviewed 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

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Send us Fan Mail The ‘Test next week’ logic puzzle Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards January 1st, 2025 A teacher tells her class  "I’m going to give you a test one day next week. I will not tell you the day, so that it will be a surprise for you". This is a well-known puzzle in logic. Is the teacher correct in saying that the day of the test will be a surprise to her students?  If you...