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  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Arts
    The high-low legacies of Jonathan Miller and Clive James

    How the two major figures in British cultural life sparked an interest in combining the highbrow and the popular

  • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    Why apologising is such a tricky thing to do

    If you are in a situation where an interviewer asks you to say sorry, you are already half-sunk

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionPublic speaking
    When history is more important than domestic politics

    Ronald Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech was one of his finest moments

  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionPublic speaking
    Mugabe’s independence speech was one of conciliation

    The strongman failed to deliver the promises of that 1980 speech

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    One of Kennedy’s finest speeches helped launch the lunar mission

    There’s no obvious reason to go to the moon. We went there because of an idea

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    When it’s not all about the music at a festival

    Crowd emotion can be whipped up faster by a song than by bare speech

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionTim Cook
    Cook’s speech at Stanford remembers Jobs and urges responsibility

    The Apple chief drew on the co-founder’s celebrated address to students in 2005

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    No disrespect in the Queen’s speech for Trump

    Comparing the address with rhetoric for the Obamas highlights her scrupulous fairness

  • Thursday, 23 May, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionPublic speaking
    Game of Thrones saved its grandest rhetoric for last

    Daenerys’s speech lost none of its power for being delivered in two fictional languages

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  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionPublic speaking
    A speech designed for reconciliation

    Nelson Mandela’s inauguration address was concise and concentrated in its rhetorical charge

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    The Remain campaign sets out its rhetorical style

    Ethos-wise, Change UK candidate Gavin Esler has an advantage: he is not a politician

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    Linguistic fluidity can sometimes backfire

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s code-switching is simply a feature of all human language

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
    FT SeriesCareer advice for graduates10 min
    How to present like a professional

    Presentations can inform - and impress - your audience

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    The power in depriving someone of their name

    Jacinda Ardern’s vow never to say the mosque gunman’s name is a bold response

  • Monday, 18 February, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    What does it mean to have a child deliver a serious message?

    Teenage activist Greta Thunberg used fear as a motivator to spur action on climate change

  • Thursday, 31 January, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionKamala Harris
    Kamala Harris offers a winningly simple sense of vocation

    In announcing her presidential candidacy, the senator reclaims the idea of ‘our America’

  • Wednesday, 16 January, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    May’s speech could not persuade the unpersuadable

    The prime minister deployed clever rhetorical tricks but her appeal to MPs was doomed

  • Friday, 14 December, 2018
    Fiction
    Shaken, if not stirred, by Bond’s drinking

    007 is a fantasy — he does things that we may wish we could do safely, but cannot

  • Tuesday, 11 December, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    When parody makes a powerful rhetorical point

    Andy Serkis played the prime minister as Gollum, cooing over a ‘precioussss’ Brexit

  • Thursday, 29 November, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    In a divided world, ‘commonplaces’ are distorted

    Shared wisdom once united us but culture wars have changed that

  • Saturday, 17 November, 2018
    Opinion
    Prince Charles at 70: the retirement-age intern

    The heir apparent has served a long apprenticeship but the top job may disappoint

  • Wednesday, 14 November, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionWork & Careers
    Women’s oratory makes an impact at last

    After millennia of being silenced and excluded, they are speaking up — and going viral

  • Wednesday, 31 October, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionPublic speaking
    Frankenstein’s monster makes a logical and emotional appeal

    A lesson in public speaking for Halloween

  • Monday, 29 October, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionUK Budget
    A confident and surprisingly jolly speech

    Chancellor’s words evoked generosity, while leaving plenty of wriggle room

  • Wednesday, 17 October, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionPublic speaking
    Portman delivers steely speech in age of Time’s Up

    The actor’s address to Variety’s Women of Power event borrows from classical techniques

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