Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts

More bad news for Gordon Brown

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A recent World Public Opinion survey has some interesting results about how Gordon Brown and other world leaders are regarded in the USA an...

There's no such thing as a boring subject

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One of the more memorable lines from the late David Ellis-Jones, with whom I used to teach presentation and communication skills at the Henl...

'Pre-delicate hitches' from Brown as he avoids answering a question about the Queen

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I’ve already posted some observations about ‘pre-delicate hitches’ coming out of the mouths of Gordon Brown and Hillary Clinton . The gener...

Why has Gordon Brown become a regular on the Today programme?

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It used to be the case that the prime ministers only went on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme during general elections (when they appeared in ...
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Gordon Brown seems to agree that Labour is ‘savage’ and ‘inhuman’

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Unless nodding your head has come to mean something other than expressing agreement with the person you’re listening to, there was an extrao...
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Poems for St George's Day

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A few years ago, we had a St George's Day supper in the village pub, where part of the evening's entertainment involved giving peopl...

Time for Gordon Brown to say "sorry" to savers

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After today's belated “sorry" for emailgate, Gordon Brown went on to say that he had been “horrified, shocked and very angry indeed...
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Gordon Brown’s G20 address ignores an important tip from Winston Churchill

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Whenever I’m asked about the biggest single problem I’ve come across since migrating from academia into training and coaching, my answer is ...
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Gordon Brown is finding the Jacqui Smith expenses story more ‘delicate’ than he says

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Long ago, I heard one of the founders of conversation analysis (and I can’t remember whether it was Emanuel Schegloff or Gail Jefferson) tal...
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Rhetorical techniques and imagery in Hannan’s attack on Brown – edited highlights

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As promised the other day, here are some notes on the rhetorical highlights of Daniel Hannan’s attack on Gordon Brown. At its simplest, the ...

Media coverage of Daniel Hannan's attack on Gordon Brown in Strasbourg

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Yesterday, when I posted news of Daniel Hannan’s speech to the European Parliament, it had already attracted 22,000 viewings and 208 comment...

It's time Gordon Brown stopped recycling other people's lines

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I’ve warned Gordon Brown and his speechwriters before ( HERE ) that it’s not a good idea to lift lines from other people’s speeches. This wa...
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Daniel Hannan v. Gordon Brown at the European Parliament

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Gordon Brown’s speech to the European Parliament yesterday got fairly wide media coverage, but there’s been little or no mention of a power...
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‘From Stalin to Mr Bean’: putting two parts of a contrast in the most effective order

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In case anyone thinks that the last posting was intended as a criticism of Vince Cable’s rhetorical skill, I haven't forgotten that his ...