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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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