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

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

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

Shared wisdom once united us but culture wars have changed that

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

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 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