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Why Ed Miliband’s Speeches Need More Heart

17.01.2012

Ed Miliband continues to have trouble getting his message across, and he knows it. In the wake of a poor conference speech and a 2011 beset with difficulties he attempted to stop the rot by appointing a new chief-of-staff and speechwriter. However, on the evidence of last week’s speech on the economy, things are going [...]

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My BBC Radio 4 ‘Word of Mouth’ interview

12.10.2010

In July 2010 I got a call, out of the blue, from a BBC radio producer. An article I’d published way back in back in 2007, with the catchy title, In Praise of Jargon, had caught his eye. He was working on an edition of BBC Radio 4′s Word of Mouth – a series about [...]

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Showcase your idea, service or product for free

16.06.2010

If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Philosophical niceties aside, it doesn’t matter how good your idea, service or product is – if no one sees it, it might as well not exist. In a world dominated by social [...]

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The premiere of our latest animation

08.06.2010

Crack open the champagne and pass the canapés – we’ve just finished our first ever custom animation! And after you’ve watched it, I’d like to share a few thoughts about it with you. Last July when we uploaded our ‘Busting the Mehrabian Myth’ to YouTube we had no idea just how much of a splash [...]

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Why Political Debate is so Dull

29.04.2010

It’s election time, and once again we find ourselves feeling like exhausted Artic explorers on the edge of calamity as we plough through a blizzard of political arguments. Economic arguments, strategic arguments, arguments of every conceivable kind are fired at us relentlessly from the TV, the radio, the newspapers, the internet and the people around [...]

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