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Send us Fan Mail A dramatic turn of events in the battle for the Sunday morning doubles tennis trophy. The long-awaited final tennis match of the year ended unexpectedly in late December, in a cancellation.  Injuries, and it must be admitted, advancing years, have taken their toll on the competitors. The event at the Northern tennis, squash, and Paddle centre,  has been competed for over several d...

Send us Fan Mail Heroic Failure: Brexit and the politics of pain, by Fintan O’Toole A review written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 28 December, 2024 Heroic Failure examines the nature of Brexit from the perspective of an Irish historian and political commentator. His central proposal contributes to a wider concept often described as English exceptionism parodied gently in the Flanders and Swann bal...

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Send us Fan Mail Lord  Mandelson, and a diplomatic comparison with Nigel Farage  Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards  20 December, 2024 Yesterday, Thursday 19 December, the news broke that Lord Mandelson was about to be confirmed as British Ambassador to the United States. Mandelson had a controversial political career, often making headlines for colourful newsworthy stories about his private lif...

Send us Fan Mail How Donald Trump’s long connection with professional wrestling helps us understand his effectiveness at manipulating reality. Prepared and spoken by Tudor Rickards 19 December 2024, drawing on Goldman, A.J., ‘How Trump turned the elections into a wrestling match’, Published 12 September 2024, on the University of Lund website,   https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-trump-t...

Send us Fan Mail Understanding Artificial Intelligence through the lens of creativity.  Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 14 December 2024 AI researchers have found creativity to be a valuable conceptual tool or lens for thinking about the nature of Artificial Intelligence. One of the leading creativity researchers, Professor Mark Runco, wrote one of the most cited articles making a claim to st...

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Send us Fan Mail A disturbing discovery in creative education. The rise of theory-lite courses Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards December 5 2024 In researching for a revised edition of my textbook Dilemmas of Leadership, over the period August-December, 2024, I have become increasingly disturbed about the lack of progress in the field of teaching materials on offer about the nature of creativit...

Send us Fan Mail President Biden’s final dilemma. What to do about Hunter? December 2 2024. Written and Spoken by Tudor Rickards    President Biden announces he intends to pardon his son Hunter over long-running criminal charges. The president had previously indicated he would not make a special case for his son, who has well-documented problems of alcoholism. https://apnews.com/article/hunter-bid...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and wisdom, late November 2024 DocAtCDI Before you laugh at children who believe in Santa Claus, Remember there are adults who believe in Donald Trump Juliest@101 Now that the dust has settled ... the farmer's protest and wall to wall positive coverage by the MSM hasn't garnered public support for their cause but simply informed the public that some greedy farmers an...

Send us Fan Mail Creative protests by book lovers 27 November 2024 Spoken and written by Tudor Rickards, based on an article from the Central Bylines website published earlier this week. I have long supported Everyday Creativity, the ways we all can add to our everyday routines to produce more creative results.  I came across a splendid example in a gentle response to the publication of his autobi...

Send us Fan Mail Toxic Masculinity and the Andrew Tait case Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards  November 27, 2024 Toxic masculinity has become a topic of research and debate in the 2020s. Andrew Tate has become identified as a case example who is also recognised as a successful global leader/influencer attracting enormous publicity through the social media. In July 2022, it was reported there we...

Send us Fan Mail Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 22 November, 2022 Elon Musk has acquired spectacular success as an innovator. He has been compared with career great engineering pioneers who shaped our world. One list places him alongside George Stevenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Edison, Ada Lovelace, and Henry Ford. In addition, the list contained a particularly interesting nominatio...

Send us Fan Mail Boris Loses It 20 November 2024 Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards from articles in The Week, The Economist, and a Case study from Henley Business School. The rise and fall of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become one of the most widely studied cases of political leadership from the perspective of a leaders losing the trust of his ministerial colleagues. The long and complex s...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom November 10-18, 2024 Finding wit and wisdom in the Presidential election result @LongTimeHistory Sadly, there will be 4 more years of Trump for Tennessee Brando to write songs. His  new song is about MAGA selling out their daughters for cheaper eggs. 🎶 The red hats are flexing, they're all acting thrilled. They don't know how tariffs work, but soon they s...

Send us Fan Mail A tale of creative accounting from His Majesty's Armed Forces  16 November, 2024 This podcast is spoken by Tudor Rickards from content which has appeared on several internet sites but without attribution. Today I found the tale replicated in the correspondence to the Guardian’ s quick crossword, supplied  by the puzzler Bath Osprey . I would welcome any suggestions of its ori...

Send us Fan Mail The Gartner hype cycle: An investment system explained using a mapping metaphor  This podcast is spoken and produced by Tudor Rickards drawing on information from:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2024/07/18/the-trough-of-disillusionment-and-four-outliers-on-the-gartner-hype-cycle/;  https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle As its commercial own...

Send us Fan Mail How is trust earned and lost? Notes prepared for a 4th edition of Dilemmas of Leadership November 11  I scribble down some initial thoughts. How is trust earned and lost? Psychological theories Practical experiences Are leaders actions ‘banked’?  And selectively remembered with distortions: the popular expression of a deeply held belief as “QUOTE I’ll never forget the way he…” A p...

Send us Fan Mail Chess training resumes. Question of the week: “why can’t a Queen castle?” After half-term hiatus, my Sunday morning junior chess training resumes.  As ever, the session is a source of enlightenment for me (as well, I hope, for the students).  I can report the break has not affected the retention of earlier lessons by the students.  For example, one has become somewhat entranced by...

Send us Fan Mail Ed Davey. Don’t laugh at him, he’s not a fool. Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards In the 2024 General Election in the United Kingdom, The Liberal Democratic Party leader Ed Davey began to attract media coverage for a series of events which were unkindly described as political stunts. Davey was widely mocked by the press, and by the general public who appeared mostly confused abo...

Send us Fan Mail On naming Liverpool’s new football manager … the case for Nominative Determinism. The story came to life for me today, when William, an acquaintance of mine who is an avid football follower, suggested that you had to have a special sort of name at present to become a manager at Liverpool FC. "They used to pick managers with solid English or Scottish names", he continued,...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom: Election special, 6 November 2024 Composed by contributors to “X” Collated and spoken by Tudor Rickards 8.00am Times are GMT. Posts from 3 - 6 November @elonmusk Last election, I didn’t know a single independent/swing voter who was voting for Trump.  This time, I don’t know anyone who isn’t. And one person after another has confided in me that they’re voting for Tr...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and wisdom, November 1-4 2024 @cjhancock People say I have an elevendency to exaggerate. @mustard99 Same here, I go to Elevenerife on holiday. @at a prayer meeting for Trump “But I want you to know and we want you to know we believe you are a vessel. You are a chosen vessel” @jemmaforte The Titanic? @TollytB Everyone should try blindfold archery. Go on, give it a go, you don&a...

Send us Fan Mail Dilemmas of Leadership Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Destiny and Development Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards Faced with an important leadership problem, a helpful approach is to arrive at a simple either–or statement which expresses a way of thinking as a dilemma. Sometimes this is enough for an idea of resolving the problem to occur to you. At other times, deeper thinking may be re...

Send us Fan Mail @jdpoc John O’Donnell Remember, clocks go back tonight. If you're a Tory, back to 1953. If you're Reform, back to 1932. If you're Jacob Rees-Mogg, back to 1741. And if you're Nigel Farage, you just demand that 'Clocks Should Go Back Where They Came From." @disavowtrump20 Jeff Bezos has forced The Washington Post - the newspaper he owns - to not endors...