oratory
Words to rally and inspire: stirring speeches from Elizabeth I to the present
William Hague 15 December 2018 9:00 am
It was a surprise, on reading Speeches of Note, to find myself laughing and chuckling at the speech of a…
Lend me your ears
Alex Marklew 21 October 2017 9:00 am
Complaints about the decline and fall of political oratory are nothing new. Back in 1865 a British reporter branded the…
In defence of the Jacobins
Tobias Grey 30 August 2014 9:00 am
The French Revolution ushered in not only a revolution of rolling heads but of talking ones too. ‘Speech-making was a…
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