Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts

Claptrap 1: The movie

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This is the first in a series of posts to mark this month's 25th anniversary of a television documentary that completely changed my life...
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D-Day 65th Anniversary (2): a reminder for Sarkozy and a challenge for Obama

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Prompted by the news that the Queen hadn't been invited to today’s 65 th anniversary commemoration of D-Day, I recently posted a clip...

Obama: Echoes of Berlin in Cairo

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Speaking in Berlin in 1963, President Kennedy showed how a few words in the local language is a sure fire way of winning approval (in the ...
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Inspiring speech for polling day by Peter Sellers

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Last November I posted a link to the classic political speech by Peter Sellers to mark the 50th anniversary of its release on The Best of Se...

The end of the beginning

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Given the continuing mystery about whether the Queen will or won't be at the D Day commemorations later this week, it was good to see th...

Did the media ignore Hannan because they think speeches are 'bad television'?

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A knock-on effect of Daniel Hannan’s speech is that this blog has experienced a ten times increase in the number of hits since starting to p...

UK media slowly wakes up to Daniel Hannan's speech

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Thanks to Google Alerts, I can report that some British newspapers have finally started to post news about Daniel Hannen's speech on the...
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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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Check the fixtures and fittings before you speak

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Prince William recently gave a speech that, not surprisingly, received national media coverage. After all, here was a very famous person who...

How to improve impact by sequence, repetition and a rhetorical technique

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In Vince Cable’s speech at the spring conference of the Liberal Democrats in Harrogate a couple of days ago, there was a sequence that would...

Neutrality in the Queen's Christmas speech

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In an earlier blog entry (12 November 2008), I looked at the way the Queen’s speech at the state opening of parliament each year is a model ...