I went to a speechwriter’s conference last year- The UK Speechwriter’s Guild event, in Bournemouth, and I saw Charles Crawford speak. I didn’t know of him and was intrigued and interested to find out that he’s a very experienced diplomat of the first rank. (Does one ever become an ex-diplomat?) His subject was fresh, full…
Andrew Marr, of the BBC, is becoming one of the hardest to watch ‘car crash’ presenters in the UK. He’s finely poised between horribly self-conscious and excruciatingly self-loving and I can only watch him with my hands over my eyes, through the gaps in my trembling fingers. It’s not him as a person that I object to,…
When you’re pretty good at something it can be easy to get into a comfortable spot and stay there. It happens to me about once a week, when I’m sitting there thinking, ‘That went rather well. God I’m good…’ and for those 15 seconds of warmth and complacency, all is rather nice with the world….