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Max Atkinson's Blog: Speech of the year by the retiring Gordon Brown?
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Speech of the year by the retiring Gordon Brown? After yesterday's post on the retirement of Gordon Brown, one of my sons reminded me of the brilliant speech. The former PM had made on the night before the referendum on Scottish independence. I had seen it too and agree that it qualifies as speech of the year - even though Mr Brown was hardly the greatest orator the world has ever seen. What's more, it's had half a million views on YouTube. JUAL PERANGSANG RED SPIDER CAIR. JUAL ALAT SEX IMPORT. To everyt...
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Max Atkinson's Blog: Michael Clarke's moving tribute to another cricketer's sudden death
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Michael Clarke's moving tribute to another cricketer's sudden death. I'd recommend anyone interested in funeral orations - or speech-making of any kind - to watch this splendid example by Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke. Right) at the funeral of a colleague (who was hit on the head by a ball) Philip Hughes. The text can be read verbatim and in full below - and is a model of how to make a great speech on any occasion - not just at a funeral, but in business, politics or anywhere else. Taken from...
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Max Atkinson's Blog: A PowerPoint 'weather bomb' presentation!!!
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A PowerPoint 'weather bomb' presentation! What is a weather 'bomb'? A Met Office "be aware" warning is running for parts of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Parts of western Scotland are braced for strong winds and "unusually high" waves, while there have already been a string of road accidents amid snow and ice. But with newspapers predicting a UK weather 'bomb' for the second year running, what does the term actually mean? BBC weather's Peter Gibbs (above) explains:. PS 3 days later. The 'bomb' ...
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Max Atkinson's Blog: October 2014
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The gloomiest day of the year - yet again! Repeat of a post from 24th October 2009. If you find the darker afternoons that start tomorrow a depressing and pointless exercise, you might be interested in an article in The Times. A few days ago ( HERE. For the full story from last year). Apart from relieving the gloom, not putting the clocks back tonight would reduce electricity consumption by 1-2% and save NHS expenditure on dealing with accidents and emergencies:. It is now nearly 5 years since I first no...
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Max Atkinson's Blog: June 2014
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A question about 'ON MESSAGE: Conversation, Comment and Communication'? Should I be worried if the publisher of my new book, 'SEEN AND HEARD' (coming out in August 2014) appears to make such heavy use of KeyNote. Comments on the above, title and/or anything else about the project. Eg how long should it be) will be. Another masterpiece from 3 years ago with loads of 3 Part Lists composed by Wobbly Williams. Results of the defend a doomed dictator speechwriting competition. Judges Collins and Finkelstein.
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Max Atkinson's Blog: Goodbye, alas, and Merry Christmas to Gordon Brown!
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Goodbye, alas, and Merry Christmas to Gordon Brown! Former PM Gordon Brown has been a regular star of this blog - ever since my first ever blogpost. Which included some tips for one of his party conference speeches that was originally commissioned by The. Since then, I've posted low and high opinions of him (neutral, of course! And will be very sorry indeed to see him go (to the House of Lords, we assume). These days. So thanks in advance to any of you who can be bothered! 17 December 2014 at 06:16.
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Max Atkinson's Blog: September 2014
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Mr Miliband's style of delivery gets into the headlines. I've blogged before about politicians - including President Obama and Ed Miliband - using teleprompters, reading from scripts, speaking without scripts, pretending not to have a script, modelling management guru walkabouts, etc. In his leader's speech yesterday, Mr Miliband excelled himself by forgetting. If I were asked, my advice would be to say that there's little to be gained from trying to memorise long speeches - unless you happen to be David...
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Max Atkinson's Blog: May 2014
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Time to start blogging again - with thanks to loyal readers who have continued visiting since I became ill with depression. A recent second opinion says it won't be long until I'm a lot better. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sign up for RSS feeds. WELCOME to a blog about speaking and communication. To everything posted on this blog in the first few years since it started. Wells, Somerset, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. COMPLETE BLOG POST INDEX. Julien Foster's food blog. Vital Speeches of the Day.
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Max Atkinson's Blog: Former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe dies today
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Former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe dies today. It was the first time I voted tactically, having always voted Labour until then. But, as is quite well known, I have voted for the SDP and Liberal Democrats ever since. Before the days of video tapes, let alone the internet, there's not much chance you'll see many. Examples of him speaking - except on tonight's prime time news programmes. And expect most of them to remind us of some scandalous and negative events in the life of an old Etonian. Wells, Somers...
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Max Atkinson's Blog: PM PROGRAMME PAUSES PUZZLE
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PM PROGRAMME PAUSES PUZZLE. Tonight's Radio 4 PM news programme had a feature on pauses (a few minutes ago). but no one there had asked me to go on the show. Nor had anyone bothered to ask me about how pauses work in conversation, speaking, presenting - whether on radio, television or everyday life. Maybe the trouble is that there's no one at the BBC - including PM presenter, Eddie Mair (above), who has read any of my books. I'm not very optimistic, but watch this space. JUAL ALAT SEX IMPORT. To everythi...
