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Majoritise Support Minoritise Opposition

What a repressive construct. As far removed from proper 'critical thinking' and actual 'inclusion' as you can get. Above, there's a 2⅓-minute chunk from my mark of the 'tomorrows papers' show the world was waiting for. Where would we be without these three stalwarts and many of their crew.

Happy Birthday Winston

Not many people get to lead defeat of amassed oppressive murderous authoritarians. Winston Churchill one rare example. Who today would turn 150. In commemoration there's plenty of pieces citing the best of his masterful speeches, glorious trove of rejoinders and remarkable lateral thinking problem solving creativity. Despite all the usual

Pop Promos Still Liking Bland Meeting Room Settings

I'd not heard of this act either. Yet this latest track did have the kind of Jamie T first album vibe I so loved two decades back. As the latest in my occasional series on this trope, the video for Just Call Me has quite the conceit. Everyone our hero

60s Hit-Making Songwriters Key To Creating Winning Ideas

I read that a song-writing duo recently, separately died. So successful that in the Sixties they racked up UK Top 20 hits in number second only to Lennon-McCartney. With a love of songwriting since schoolmates, they were rejected by the gatekeepers of the day (Soho's English Tin Pan Alley). So

Your German Discounter Smash Hit Middle Aisle Pitch

I say smash hit but, according to their UK Chief Exec, I could equally say divorce-maker. For apparently the 'middle at Lidl' phenomenon that is their ever-changing selection of all manner of weird and wonderful household items can cause domestic ructions. “We often get partners at odds with each other

Now and Next Renown

I was enjoying a chat with a shift manager of a large gastro style coffee shop that when in that city centre I frequent. She had just begun to split her time to help steady the fortunes of another location. As with many such endeavour, I sensed a combination of

Tempted To Delve Into AI Prop Writing?

Over the Summer marking season, I noted a Uni philosophy lecturer had found a pattern in too many of the papers he was judging. Exeter's Dr Edward Skidelsky had found one give-away word; delve. In general such output, "is typical of the purple but empty prose that ChatGPT produces", he

Behind Unexplained Curtain

Much-loved English radio broadcaster, Howard Hughes, left quite the body of work. In his later life, a significant light in the murky world of bizarrerie where he stood apart as a beacon of sanity and curiosity in a field otherwise mired with the crank often verging on dangerous. His arena

Operation Mincemeat-ing Opposition Minds

An avid reader in my early school years, I lapped up The Man Who Never Was. Also made into a terrific film, it tells the story WW2's daring Operation Mincemeat. How the Brits sought to distract the enemy through the sleight of doc of 'top secret' yet false landing plans

How Many Reasons?

Northern hemisphere mock exam season for youngsters looms over the festive period. I fondly remember writing the History essays of my schooldays. Its exam strangely always last in the rota. I always loved the subject, despite being a maths addict back then. One key realisation came from examiner rubric. You'd