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- The Jackdaw Gas Field: A Dilemma of Leadership
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The government’s decision to allow development of the Jackdaw gas field illustrates a recurring dilemma of leadership: how to reconcile competing priorities when each has legitimate claims.
The pursuit of energy security and economic interests sits in tension with concerns about global warming and the transition away from fossil fuels…
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2 min - I learn to search with Chat GBT
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I am conducting my apprenticeship learning how to use ChatGPT.
One of my first trials demonstrated how the process works.
My problem was identifying a new local Business, which I believed to be some kind of music club.
My conversation with ChatGPT went something like the following, which I have slightly abbreviated…
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4 min - Learning to search with ChatGBT
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I am conducting my apprenticeship learning how to use ChatGPT. One of my first trials demonstrated how the process works.
My problem was identifying a new local Business, which I believed to be some kind of music club.My conversation with ChatGPT went something like the following which I have slightly abbreviated…
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4 min - “We were only obeying orders”
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In this post, I’m quoting extensively from the work of Emmanuel Kant. It is a difficult listen, and I can only claim to grasp more and more of its significance after several readings…
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6 min - "Throwing yourself into the dark" Commentary on a conversation with Anne Carson
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Tudor Rickards
I read and comment on an interview given by Anne Carson in *The Paris Review*. She talks about writing, understanding between people, translation, as well as hesitation, contradiction, and time. The interview gained attention after Anne Carson received the 2026 Nobel Prize for Poetry.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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6 min - The Blood Lust of the Trump Administration
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This week saw the announcement that the execution of Nidal Hasan, who shot dead 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, is to be live streamed to the American public.
It is believed this would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century.
The decision to livestream it is "unprecedented in the modern era" and "on uncertain legal terrain," said John Mills, a lawyer who works with inmates sentenced to death…- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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3 min - Kemi is very Marmite
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In early autumn in the UK, each political party holds a conference. This is the context in which Conservative leader and Prime Minister in waiting Kemi Badenoch makes her speech today.
These events are primarily intended to whip up approval for the party faithful. This time-honoured process is now screened for wider consumption. For many years interest has been focused on the two main parties of government the conservative and labour parties. More recently, the Liberal Democrats, emerging from another great force in the land, also take part in the ritual. And even more recently, the Green party and Reform have joined in…
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5 min - The Chess Season bursts into life
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This informal audio message is intended for members of East Cheshire Chess Club who are now gearing up for the new season. A special welcome to new members.
It may be of interest to others for its insights into workings of a typical enthusiastic but not always successful Club.
Several books have been written about the fictionalised happenings to a mythical club East Cheadle…
As August slipped into September, East Cheshire Chess Club members slipped back into its premises at the Cheadle Hulme Institute premises, for club nights.
It would be fair to say that we suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune last season. Long- standing members had departed for a variety of reasons. The second team narrowly failed to gain promotion to the first division of the Stockport league. The first team equally narrowly slipped into the second division
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5 min - A General Election soon seems inevitable
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30 September 2025
A General Election in the UK soon seems inevitable.
That’s the startling conclusion reached by the respected political commentator Lord Adonis immediately after Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour Party Annual Conference.
His analysis appeared in Prospect, which I have always found one of the UK’s more balanced political journals…
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3 min - Auf Wiedersehen, Angela Merkel
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At her retirement as German Chancellor, an entire nation to the homes and balconies to applaud for six minutes.
it was a unique tribute to a unique woman- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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About TudoRama
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TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at…
the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous books and articles on creativity, sporting management and leadership, as well as fictional works involving the mythical University of Urmston. He has been influential in the development of creativity-related projects in Europe, including the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), and was co-founder (with Susan Moger) of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. He is also author of detective stories centred around the fictional University of Urmston, and a nearby chess club which houses a top-secret government surveillance operation. His recent switch to podcasting reaches out to a wider general audience interested in current affairs, and the processes of creativity previously described in his lectures, blogposts, and textbooks.