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The strongman failed to deliver the promises of that 1980 speech
There’s no obvious reason to go to the moon. We went there because of an idea
Crowd emotion can be whipped up faster by a song than by bare speech
The Apple chief drew on the co-founder’s celebrated address to students in 2005
Comparing the address with rhetoric for the Obamas highlights her scrupulous fairness
Daenerys’s speech lost none of its power for being delivered in two fictional languages
Nelson Mandela’s inauguration address was concise and concentrated in its rhetorical charge
Ethos-wise, Change UK candidate Gavin Esler has an advantage: he is not a politician
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s code-switching is simply a feature of all human language
Jacinda Ardern’s vow never to say the mosque gunman’s name is a bold response
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg used fear as a motivator to spur action on climate change
In announcing her presidential candidacy, the senator reclaims the idea of ‘our America’
The prime minister deployed clever rhetorical tricks but her appeal to MPs was doomed
Andy Serkis played the prime minister as Gollum, cooing over a ‘precioussss’ Brexit
Shared wisdom once united us but culture wars have changed that
After millennia of being silenced and excluded, they are speaking up — and going viral
A lesson in public speaking for Halloween
Chancellor’s words evoked generosity, while leaving plenty of wriggle room
The actor’s address to Variety’s Women of Power event borrows from classical techniques
Her pitch included deft digs at opponents both inside and outside the Tory party
The opposition leader attempts to bring radical values into mainstream politics
The Queen’s 1947 Cape Town speech may not have been delivered live. Does it matter?
The term echoes some of history’s most dishonest sloganeering
Giuliani’s outburst on behalf of US president is very like a Shakespearean sound bite
The Labour leader’s canned video was a poor substitute for an authentic live speech
