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Christmas jumpers; underpants with elastic poking through; trousers from a past life — it’s time to take stock
A journey to Jaeger-LeCoultre to hear more about the chimes of our lives
From Twitter to TikTok, a new brand of comedy is blurring the lines between silly and serious
It looks good on film stars and footballers, but a buzz-cut is a risky proposition for the rest of us
Sam Leith is finding sustenance through the pandemic in his family’s ‘happy place’
The chancellor’s Budget speech was positively surging with animal spirits
The address does its work deftly. It presents the Sussexes as a united front
If something is true and simply demonstrated, why not offer that demonstration?
Golden Globes speech ‘roasted’ the audience in the room to connect directly with the public
Want to pull off a ‘loungewear’ look without channelling Hugh Hefner? The trick is to hit that sweet spot between the tracksuit and pyjama
How the two major figures in British cultural life sparked an interest in combining the highbrow and the popular
If you are in a situation where an interviewer asks you to say sorry, you are already half-sunk
Can’t afford those $1,000 designer shoes? Now, you can buy a $1 virtual version for your avatar – on the fashion gaming app Ada
Ronald Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech was one of his finest moments
The strongman failed to deliver the promises of that 1980 speech
There’s no obvious reason to go to the moon. We went there because of an idea
Crowd emotion can be whipped up faster by a song than by bare speech
The Apple chief drew on the co-founder’s celebrated address to students in 2005
Comparing the address with rhetoric for the Obamas highlights her scrupulous fairness
Daenerys’s speech lost none of its power for being delivered in two fictional languages
Nelson Mandela’s inauguration address was concise and concentrated in its rhetorical charge
Ethos-wise, Change UK candidate Gavin Esler has an advantage: he is not a politician
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s code-switching is simply a feature of all human language
Presentations can inform - and impress - your audience
Jacinda Ardern’s vow never to say the mosque gunman’s name is a bold response
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