Max Atkinson's Blog

Obama at Occidental By  Margot Mifflin October 3, 2012 On February 18, 1981, a student at Occidental College, Barack Obama, delivered his fi...

 I was delighted when John Humphrys stopped doing BBC Radio 4 Today programme when he was so obviously way past his best. But why Global’s C...

Growing up in Yorkshire meant that there was a lot happening before snd during bonfire night.  Apart from the fact that Fawkes and some of t...

Lords debates Assisted Dying Bill at second reading 22 October 2021  Members of the Lords will debate the main principles and purpose of the...

This blog is from 22 years ago when the Queen opened parliament by reading a speech written for her by Gordon Brown's Labour government....

In my continuously failing efforts to tidy up my study, I came across a programme for a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesa...

Another speaker at the European Speechwriters Audience with Max Atkinson was John Barrasso from Wyoming who is the third most senior Republi...

 Birthday greetings or obituary? On 3rd March, sixteen days before my birthday on the 19th, Brian Jenner (founder of the UK Speechwriters Gu...

One of a number of welcome commets at the recent European Speechwriters Zoom meeting             

JFK's inaugural speech: Six secrets of his success By Max Atkinson Rhetoric expert Published 19 January 2011 The poetic "ask not...

The windows firm, based in Cuffley in Hertfordshire, was plunged into crisis in March when the lockdown made it impossib...