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  • Saturday, 2 October, 2021
    Janan Ganesh
    How to talk your way to the top

    Modern habits of speech radiate weakness. Avoid them to get on

  • Sunday, 13 June, 2021
    Keynote speakers thrive in a booming virtual market

    Authors, academics and thought leaders who lost income when live events stopped have become a pandemic success story

  • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
    Pilita Clark
    Why jokes at work make more sense than ever

    The good news is you do not even need to be provably funny, as long as you can show you have a sense of humour

  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
    Pilita Clark
    No room for bullshit in the time of coronavirus

    Speaking clearly and honestly in a crisis cuts through the guff

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    Sam Leith
    Of course writers owe readers an explanation

    If something is true and simply demonstrated, why not offer that demonstration?

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Michael Skapinker
    How native English speakers can stop confusing everyone else

    Do not beat about the bush with idioms when it comes to making your meaning clear

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

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

  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    Viv Groskop
    Bad news: how you speak still matters more than what you say

    No one intends to take their parents into a job interview, but they sneak in anyway

  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    Mugabe’s independence speech was one of conciliation and inclusion

    The strongman failed to deliver the promises of that 1980 speech

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    Pilita Clark
    How to wing it when you need to make a speech

    For most people, only practice can make you look spontaneous

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    Tim 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 PersuasionSam Leith
    No disrespect in the Queen’s speech for Donald Trump

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

  • Monday, 27 May, 2019
    Work & Careers
    Pitch perfect: how to speak with authority

    Women can change the way they sound for more impact, but authenticity is crucial

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

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

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    A speech designed for reconciliation and nation-building

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

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

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

  • Thursday, 29 November, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    In a divided world, ‘commonplaces’ have become distorted

    Shared wisdom once united us but culture wars have changed that

  • Monday, 12 November, 2018
    Andrew Hill
    Leaders are wise to listen before speaking out

    Staff will act on views broadcast from the top, however light-hearted

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

    A lesson in public speaking for Halloween

  • Wednesday, 17 October, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    Natalie Portman delivers a steely speech in the age of Time’s Up

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

  • Monday, 1 October, 2018
    Andrew Hill
    A successful start-up pitch is in the hands of the entrepreneur

    New research sheds light on the language and gestures that sway investors

  • Tuesday, 18 September, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    Public speaking is no more than a confidence trick

    The Queen’s 1947 Cape Town speech may not have been delivered live. Does it matter?

  • Wednesday, 5 September, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    The problem with the ‘People’s Vote’

    The term echoes some of history’s most dishonest sloganeering

  • Tuesday, 7 August, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-Semitism apology was a dud

    The Labour leader’s canned video was a poor substitute for an authentic live speech

  • Thursday, 26 July, 2018
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    Mike Pompeo’s rhetoric avoids apocalyptic bluster

    US secretary of state’s speech addressed three audiences in one

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