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Silent film pianist and visiting professor at the Royal College of MusicNeil Brand [http://www.neilbrand.com/]plays intriguing sales chords. After tinkling a semi-stock phrase proving his mettle on-the-spot to evoke the iconic scene ‘the realisation that the person in front of you is the person with whom you’

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton. Many wail that these pair are the most unloved and inept American presidential candidates ever to run. Wherever you sit with their attributes, one thing stands out from their electioneering. Campaigns can spiral out of control when someone throws in a credibility grenade. For Sillary it

Central bankers. Not a species deserving esteem aplenty. Just like their commercial bankster compadres. Yet this past week one of them has railed against over-complex [https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/10/04/a-cat-a-hat-and-a-simple-measure-of-gobbledygook-how-readable-is-your-writing/] language. Not only does he call it out as unnecessary, he correctly labels it as mostly unreadable.

Boris. How few people are recognised worldwide by their forename mononym alone. From most privileged of educations to indefferent journalistic par excellence to London Mayor to (one such) figurehead of Brexit to the Foreign face of his country. As he shuffles his prosperous frame onto the cushion of his freshly

Yes, I found myself strangely engaged by a live feed of 2016’s first American Presidential Debate. I thought it was pretty tight. Until I was astonished by that flippant remark; “that makes me smart”. In an instant us normals paying our income tax rendered dumb. Still, later I enjoyed

So this week the memoirs of an interviewer were serialised. No ordinary journalist, the man concerned held the crown for most rabid interrogator of politicians in the UK for a fair old while. I was a huge fan of his work in his prime. The nightly show he fronted was