TudoRama

By Tudor Rickards

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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.

Episode Date
Vote to keep the weirdos out
May 04, 2026
Three poets and a music-maker: Creating a website
May 03, 2026
Life is Sadness, life's a Bitch
May 01, 2026
Natural talent and its weaknesses
Apr 27, 2026
Brexit Rap: Where do new ideas come from?
Apr 22, 2026
The Houdini tactic: An invaluable rescue weapon for the club player
Apr 16, 2026
The Dark Side of the Augusta Masters Golf Championship
Apr 15, 2026
A late-night Trump rant against his enemies
Apr 10, 2026
A Tale of Two Tweets: Donald Trump's Easter Messages
Apr 07, 2026
Lewis Goodall: Where did it all go wrong?
Apr 03, 2026
Grandfather's Clock, by Henry C. Work
Mar 29, 2026
Newt Gingrich solves the Strait of Hormuz problem
Mar 28, 2026
The war of words: Donald Trump v Iran
Mar 27, 2026
Stockport against East Cheshire: A monumental battle
Mar 26, 2026
A Woman's History, by W.H.Davies
Mar 22, 2026
Mourinho Matters: A study in charismatic leadership
Mar 21, 2026
A product in a bottle. How to turn ideas into new products
Mar 17, 2026
Staying on the Wagon, and other interesting English sayings
Mar 17, 2026
Leaders we Deserve: Making Sense of Donald Trump
Mar 17, 2026
Keith, the eco Goat
Mar 06, 2026
Things you didn't know about St David's day
Feb 28, 2026
Politics in England's Green and pleasant land ...
Feb 27, 2026
The Topsy Effect: Revising the acknowledgments for a new edition of a text book
Feb 25, 2026
Why Nigel Farage Recruits Tories
Feb 18, 2026
Breaking News! Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister
Feb 16, 2026
The Survival of Starmer: 'Not another one!'
Feb 11, 2026
Keir Starmer's Political Crisis: A Dilemma of Leadership
Feb 06, 2026
How I Decluttered my Life ...
Feb 04, 2026
My System: A new way of teaching chess
Feb 02, 2026
The Free Ocean effect: Will it appear in next year's dictionaries?
Jan 28, 2026
Why you need 100 ideas in search of a good one
Jan 26, 2026
Stop the singing
Jan 23, 2026
ChatGBT and its creation of poetry
Jan 19, 2026
Something missing from the Coffee Shop
Jan 13, 2026
Tyrants from Aristotle to Trump?
Jan 12, 2026
The loneliest hole in the wall
Jan 10, 2026
The Abduction of President Moduro: A day in the life of Donald Trump
Jan 04, 2026
Where do ideas come from: An Experience in Music-making
Jan 01, 2026
Hum it again, Sam, like Columbo used to
Dec 24, 2025
Knick Trial
Dec 24, 2025
In Hindsight, It's all done with mirrors
Dec 22, 2025
BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY)
Dec 18, 2025
Creativity and Cooperation: A musical experiment
Dec 15, 2025
Making Fonts Great Again and rescuing America from Wokeness
Dec 12, 2025
Socrates and the dilemma of the finger
Nov 21, 2025
When threads become knots: A detective story
Nov 18, 2025
Dear England. Book Review.
Nov 08, 2025
"The visit to Eccles was no Cakewalk"
Nov 05, 2025
Tara's Trial
Nov 03, 2025
Buyers Remorse
Oct 29, 2025
Heroic Patriotism
Oct 27, 2025
Music to my Ears. Creating using an AI system
Oct 22, 2025
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
Oct 17, 2025
Have yourself a creative birthday
Oct 09, 2025
Distractions for a young chess player
Oct 05, 2025
Hygienist Jill
Sep 30, 2025
East Cheshire Chess Club Social Event sets new IT standards
Sep 25, 2025
Mohammed Bin Salman. Review of ‘The man who would be King’
Sep 11, 2025
Assessing the creativity of AI generated music. I try the Suno system
Sep 08, 2025
BBC 5 Live sometimes reminds me of the Haribo Ads
Aug 27, 2025
Bang to rights
Aug 20, 2025
A Glorious Victory
Aug 14, 2025
The Return of Manchester United
Aug 12, 2025
How I upset Catherine Jenkins, Max Boyce and Tom Jones in one afternoon
Aug 11, 2025
Calon Lan: A great Welsh song
Aug 09, 2025
Seconds Out: Ode to Chess Boxing
Aug 07, 2025
To Sophie Rose, from top to toes
Aug 04, 2025
The decline and fall of Boris Johnson
Jul 26, 2025
Bungee Jumping Boogie
Jul 25, 2025
It was a mistake your honour
Jul 20, 2025
Donald, me and the BBC
Jul 17, 2025
Could I have worked with Norman Tebbitt?
Jul 17, 2025
CaveMan Rap: The True Story
Jul 05, 2025
How to write a poem about Netanyahu
Jun 27, 2025
This is Our Globe
Jun 24, 2025
Rainbow words. How they are contributing to dangers to our civilisation
Jun 23, 2025
True Start Coffee. A customer review
Jun 20, 2025
Miracle at the Tennis Club
Jun 17, 2025
Trial
Jun 13, 2025
Wit and Wisdom Early June 2025
Jun 11, 2025
They came at dawn. My nightmare begins
Jun 10, 2025
The bromance of the year is over. Donald and Elon part bigly
Jun 07, 2025
Are you a supermarket shelf-searcher
Jun 02, 2025
Eco’s fourteen features of fascism
May 30, 2025
TACO. An example of the dynamics of meme formation
May 30, 2025
Wit and Wisdom Late May 2025
May 28, 2025
Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC: The uneasy relationship between sport and politics
May 22, 2025
What’s more boring than watching paint dry? Answer: Attending the AGM of a Chess league.
May 16, 2025
Wit and Wisdom April 2025
May 09, 2025
Battle of the bins
May 08, 2025
Donald Opens Alcatraz Trump Tower
May 06, 2025
Cricketer and Philosopher Geoffrey Boycott wins Nobel Prize
May 05, 2025
What’s my line? Tennis tantrums down the ages.
Apr 30, 2025
Consciousness revisited. Book Review of Being you, by Anil Seth
Apr 24, 2025
Wit and Wisdom, April 2025
Apr 23, 2025
The Nipper-nipping Chess Robot
Apr 20, 2025
Defining a woman
Apr 18, 2025
Why Donald Trump is being compared with Chairman Mao
Apr 16, 2025
Fungus the Bogeyman's tennis bag. How decluttering changed my life
Apr 10, 2025
Irish Humour. The skull of Brian Baru
Apr 05, 2025
Wit and Wisdom March-April 2025
Apr 03, 2025
Controligarchs by Seamus Bruner. Book Review by Tudor Rickards
Apr 02, 2025
Donald Trump Coup
Mar 31, 2025
More than meets the eye...why there's hope for the NHS
Mar 23, 2025
Conspiracy theories. The assassination of President Kennedy
Mar 23, 2025
So much symbolism as Teuchel faces his first match as England football manager
Mar 22, 2025
Wit and wisdom March 2025
Mar 17, 2025
Chess Masters: The Endgame. A review
Mar 12, 2025
The Glorious Victory of the B team adds a Footnote to Chess History
Mar 08, 2025
Wit and wisdom, Late February 2025
Mar 04, 2025
Sporting Dilemmas. The case of the Virtual Assistant Referee
Mar 03, 2025
The Trumposki Gambit. The most feared weapon in the world of hand to hand combat
Mar 03, 2025
How to save a lost game at chess
Feb 25, 2025
Mao to Xi. A tale of two leaders
Feb 21, 2025
Beyond mimicry: Can AI exhibit creativity?
Feb 17, 2025
Proposal for collaboration with CIM for contributions to the new edition of Dilemmas of Leadership
Feb 13, 2025
Manchester United can't be going bust. Or can it?
Feb 13, 2025
Trump v Associated Press. The battle for the first amendment
Feb 12, 2025
Wit and Wisdom February 2025
Feb 11, 2025
On Learning of Donald Trump's plans for Gaza and Ukraine: The Fate of Tyrants
Feb 06, 2025
Chasing after moonbeams: The human quest for knowledge of the future
Feb 03, 2025
Wit and Wisdom Late January 2025
Feb 01, 2025
Big Ben Bonged for Britain. The Day we left Europe
Jan 31, 2025
When the water drops and refreezes’: Where do new ideas come from?
Jan 30, 2025
Did Donald Trump contribute to the crash in share prices in his first week?
Jan 29, 2025
The weaponisation of DEI
Jan 28, 2025
Chess and Darts. Not as different as you might think
Jan 25, 2025
Wit and Wisdom. The first week of the Trump Presidency
Jan 24, 2025
Helpful advice, NOT. When to ignore advice from well-meaning friends
Jan 22, 2025
Baron Munchausen and his Father Donald
Jan 20, 2025
Trial Jan
Jan 19, 2025
Wit and Wisdom Mid January 2025
Jan 19, 2025
Wokeness. How a concept became a political battleground
Jan 13, 2025
trial with damian
Jan 09, 2025
Make Greenland Great Again. The tale of the Emperor's Dumplings
Jan 09, 2025
Twice Round the Clock, by Billie Houston. Book Review
Jan 08, 2025
Wit and Wisdom. New Year Edition 2025
Jan 06, 2025
The 'Test Next Week' logic puzzle
Jan 01, 2025
Foot-fault. William's Woes Stop Play
Dec 30, 2024
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain, by Fintan O’Toole
Dec 28, 2024
Wit and Wisdom December 2024
Dec 23, 2024
Lord Mandelson and a diplomatic comparison with Nigel Farage
Dec 20, 2024
How Donald Trump’s long connection with professional wrestling helps us understand his effectiveness at manipulating reality
Dec 19, 2024
Understanding Artificial Intelligence through the Lens of Creativity.
Dec 15, 2024
Dommuraju Gukesh becomes youngest ever world Chess champion
Dec 13, 2024
A disturbing discovery in creative education. The rise of theory-lite courses
Dec 05, 2024
President Biden’s final dilemma. What to do about Hunter?
Dec 02, 2024
Wit and wisdom, late November 2024
Nov 29, 2024
Creative protests by book lovers
Nov 28, 2024
Toxic Masculinity and the Andrew Tait case
Nov 27, 2024
Elon Musk's leadership style. The case of the Twitter takeover.
Nov 22, 2024
Boris loses it
Nov 20, 2024
Wit and Wisdom November 10-18, 2024
Nov 18, 2024
A Tale of Creative Accounting from His Majesty's Armed Forces
Nov 16, 2024
The Gartner Hype Cycle. An investment system explained using a mapping metaphor
Nov 12, 2024
How is trust earned and lost?
Nov 11, 2024
Chess training resumes. Question of the week "why can't a Queen castle?"
Nov 10, 2024
Ed Davey. Don’t laugh at him, he’s not a fool
Nov 09, 2024
On naming Liverpool’s new football manager … the case for Nominative Determinism
Nov 08, 2024
Wit and Wisdom: Election special, 6 November 2024
Nov 06, 2024
Wit and wisdom, November 1-4 2024
Nov 04, 2024
Thinking about leadership using a dilemmas approach
Nov 01, 2024
Wit and Wisdom, Late October 2024
Oct 30, 2024
The club of 1984. A walk down memory lane
Oct 28, 2024
Cricket’s dirty secret revealed.
Oct 26, 2024
A nail-biting finish for the East Cheadle second team’s first match of the season.
Oct 22, 2024
The Dilemmas of a new King: Charles 111 heckled on his State Visit to Australia
Oct 22, 2024
Why I don’t edit my podcasts. It’s not entirely sloth, or obsessive need for closure
Oct 20, 2024
A brilliant fighting draw for the injury-hit first team: Urmston v East Cheadle irregulars
Oct 18, 2024
Photo of 63. A short story by Stephen Tranter
Oct 16, 2024
‘Institutions under siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State’ by John Campbell'. A review’
Oct 14, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. October 2024
Oct 12, 2024
An innovator describes his process of Invention.
Oct 11, 2024
To my chess students and parents. A ‘Sunday sermon’
Oct 09, 2024
How to explain Social Constructionism to a Scientist, and why it matters
Oct 05, 2024
Did the Vice Presidential debate swing the needle in the swing states?
Oct 02, 2024
Raining cats and dogs. A brief, damp encounter
Oct 01, 2024
I have completed 0.001% of the text of the new edition to my book Dilemmas of Leadership
Sep 27, 2024
Wit and Wisdom; Mid-September 2024
Sep 25, 2024
Starmer's conference speech as a dilemma between gloomy news and light at the end of the tunnel
Sep 24, 2024
Six of the best. A productive day for ideas.
Sep 23, 2024
Columbo's best games: The Fried-Liver attack
Sep 20, 2024
The Trump Defense: Why Donald Trump is a Natural Born Genius
Sep 18, 2024
The Trump Harris debate. Who won, and does it matter?
Sep 13, 2024
Wit and wisdom Early September 2024
Sep 09, 2024
How to train your chat bot, and how your chat bot trains you
Sep 05, 2024
Charisma ain’t what it used to be
Sep 02, 2024
Dealing with Artificial Intelligence Nightmares
Aug 31, 2024
Dilemmas of Leadership Chapter 1 The reviewer's dilemmas
Aug 28, 2024
Wit and Wisdom Late August Edition, 2024
Aug 27, 2024
Toxic Masculinity: The Andrew Tate story and the Southport riots
Aug 24, 2024
How to write a new edition of a textbook
Aug 19, 2024
An experiment in visualisation
Aug 15, 2024
An Olympic Games fit for the next century. Welcome to Hollywood
Aug 13, 2024
Olympic notebook, week 2
Aug 11, 2024
Wit and Wisdom, Late July 2024
Aug 09, 2024
The Problem of the Wire Cage, by John Dickson Carr. A review of a tennis murder
Aug 07, 2024
The spirit of entrepreneurship
Aug 05, 2024
What's the difference between chess positions and chess problems?
Aug 05, 2024
Olympic notebook week 1
Aug 02, 2024
Dealing with false news. The Southport children’s murders and subsequent rioting.
Jul 31, 2024
Why Donald Trump reminds me of Coyote in Navajo myth
Jul 28, 2024
The Olympic Games begin. What they teach us about politics, and vice-versa.
Jul 26, 2024
President Biden resolves his most significant dilemma
Jul 25, 2024
The Guinness Book of Records and the compression of creativity
Jul 24, 2024
The Coronation of Kamala. ‘Yes she can’
Jul 23, 2024
Biden v Trump. They think it's all over ... but there's time for one last plot twist
Jul 17, 2024
Requiem for a dream: Spain 2 England 1
Jul 15, 2024
Can brainy birds play chess? How early should you start playing chess with your children?
Jul 14, 2024
Wit and Wisdom, Mid July 2024
Jul 10, 2024
The General Election of 2024 as seen by the twitterati.
Jul 05, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Early July, 2024
Jul 03, 2024
The twelve-move forced mate for White in chess
Jul 01, 2024
England v Slovakia. Chess, Politics and Football come together
Jun 30, 2024
Biden Trump debate. First reactions: A disaster for Biden.
Jun 28, 2024
General Election Diary, Weeks 3-4, June 2024
Jun 26, 2024
Royal welcome of Japan’s Emperor and Empress by the King. Nobody does it better.
Jun 25, 2024
Draper beats Alcaraz playing a perfect chess move on the tennis court
Jun 21, 2024
The curious case of the man who read seventy detective stories
Jun 19, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Late June, 2023
Jun 18, 2024
Sad story. The tale of the lonely Professor
Jun 17, 2024
Marianna Spring, BBC’s secret weapon against fake news
Jun 14, 2024
Wit and wisdom, Mid June 2024
Jun 12, 2024
What sort of chess game suits you?
Jun 10, 2024
My life changed after receiving one email. I have become a sweat-free zone.
Jun 10, 2024
Sinner v Alcaraz. A great tennis match
Jun 08, 2024
General Election 2024. An audio-diary, weeks1-2
Jun 07, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Early June, 2024
Jun 05, 2024
The Empire strikes back. Megalomania forces in battle to save their captured leader
May 31, 2024
Victory goes to the most tenacious. Swiatek v Osaka
May 30, 2024
Getting started in chess. A course for beginners, Session 3
May 28, 2024
End of season blues. Things can only get better.
May 27, 2024
Getting started in chess. Revision session No 2 The basic moves
May 26, 2024
Getting started in chess. Revision session No 1
May 24, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Late May 2024 edition
May 23, 2024
General Election fever. Wet.wet.wet.
May 22, 2024
Strictly come dentistry. The new sensational TV show
May 21, 2024
Dogs in Drag, or 101 Pugnations?
May 19, 2024
The chess championship of the future. The Armageddon wars.
May 16, 2024
David Beckham’s Body Art investigated
May 16, 2024
The Odd Couple: A case study of gaslighting?
May 15, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Mid May 2024
May 13, 2024
The Invention of Solitude. Paul Auster's remarkable account of the creative process
May 11, 2024
Snakes, ladders and little leaguers
May 08, 2024
Wit and wisdom. Early May 2024
May 06, 2024
Paul Auster undetected
May 03, 2024
A sword attack, heroism, and knee-jerk exceptionalism
May 01, 2024
Wit and Wisdom Late April 2024
Apr 28, 2024
I am possessed. How I became a slave to my new iPhone
Apr 26, 2024
Gukesh wins chess tournament. India goes crazy.
Apr 22, 2024
The case of the constipated bishop
Apr 18, 2024
Mid April Wit and Wisdom
Apr 17, 2024
William takes a seat
Apr 16, 2024
Anger management. How using a shredder might help
Apr 15, 2024
The God particle and beyond. A tribute to Peter Higgs
Apr 13, 2024
The traumas of modern life. Buying a new smart phone.
Apr 12, 2024
Chess Tactics for Kids, by Murray Chandler. I road-test a training manual
Apr 10, 2024
Ad hominem attacks. Why Donald Trump struggles to construct a logical argument
Apr 05, 2024
Creativity and basket weaving
Apr 03, 2024
To the glorious victors in a historic chess battle
Apr 02, 2024
April foolery. Can you outfox the Guardian?
Apr 01, 2024
From Shakespeare to Punk Rock and Punk Chess
Mar 31, 2024
The Midnight Library, by Matthew Haig. A book review.
Mar 29, 2024
Wit and Wisdom; Easter Special Edition
Mar 27, 2024
The politics of chess. The case of Shohreh Bayat
Mar 25, 2024
The Porridge Song
Mar 22, 2024
Panache in Poynton, Mayhem in Manchester
Mar 19, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Mid March 2024
Mar 18, 2024
Chess Memories. Has Stockport become East Cheadle’s bunnies?
Mar 15, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Early March 2024
Mar 12, 2024
How Luke Littler will improve even more as a darts superstar.
Mar 08, 2024
The big freeze. The double Houdini that failed
Mar 01, 2024
The golden age of detective stories and the locked room puzzle
Feb 28, 2024
Complexity in chess
Feb 26, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Late February, 2024.
Feb 26, 2024
An Incident at Waitrose
Feb 24, 2024
Mental set. Two words that could revolutionise criminal detection
Feb 22, 2024
Wit and wisdom Mid February edition
Feb 21, 2024
How Neil Kinnock is helping Keir Starmer win the next General Election
Feb 16, 2024
Ageing leaders. How the ancient Egyptians solved the problem
Feb 15, 2024
The Triumph of the Zombie Elephants
Feb 12, 2024
Wit and wisdom. Early February 2024 posts
Feb 10, 2024
Gaza and Ukraine. The sort of peace settlement that dare not speak its name.
Feb 09, 2024
King Charles diagnosed with Cancer
Feb 06, 2024
The turning in the road
Feb 02, 2024
Three minutes of bedtime anxiety reduction. Ready, steady, let go
Jan 31, 2024
Interview with Maksym Kryshtafor on his path to chess stardom
Jan 30, 2024
Wit and wisdom. End of January posts
Jan 29, 2024
The Lament for my Oven Glove
Jan 27, 2024
The Social Chess Evening January 2024
Jan 26, 2024
Why the Post Office needs creative thinking to rescue itself
Jan 24, 2024
Wit and Wisdom. Mid January 2024
Jan 23, 2024
Panic buying of tickets for chess social event
Jan 22, 2024
Tennis. The gulf between the world’s best players and the rest.
Jan 22, 2024
Tennis. The comeback agonies of Emma Raducanu
Jan 19, 2024
Hollie saves my beeping problem
Jan 19, 2024
The curious case of the abandoned boots. Can you solve the puzzle?
Jan 17, 2024
The Chess Battle at Fortress Cheadle
Jan 14, 2024
Stagecoach Mary and the Nature of the Pioneering Spirit. A book review of The Thread of Gold, A Celebration of Black Womanhood, by Catherine Joy White
Jan 12, 2024
Wit and Wisdom New Year Edition
Jan 09, 2024
The Big Four. Or the time when Agatha Christie nodded
Jan 08, 2024
The Great Chess Battle of Cheadle’s Drift
Jan 05, 2024
Have we passed peak pessimism with the departure of dreadful 2023?
Jan 04, 2024
How to kill your family, by Bella Mackie. Review
Jan 01, 2024
Sheffield
Dec 29, 2023
My End of the Year Humour Pick-me-up(dated)
Dec 29, 2023
'And the second chess player said'
Dec 27, 2023
My Imaginary Books of the Year List
Dec 27, 2023
'Jonah historically regarded' How Herman Melville describes the story in his masterpiece 'Moby Dick'.
Dec 23, 2023
I know what went on in Mozart's head
Dec 21, 2023
Wit and Wisdom Christmas Edition, December 2023
Dec 20, 2023
December wit and wisdom (2023)
Dec 16, 2023
The creativity of AI systems
Dec 15, 2023
Creativity testing: Uses of a can of oats
Dec 13, 2023
The case of the curious crossword
Dec 10, 2023
What is punk chess?
Dec 08, 2023
Nature notes. The armchair birdwatcher
Dec 07, 2023
Henri Grob. There's method in his madness
Dec 04, 2023
Wit and Wisdom special to end November 2023
Nov 30, 2023
Lost in translation. Pigs might float
Nov 30, 2023
How to be kind to your washing machine. A morality tale
Nov 27, 2023
Wit and Wisdom November 20-26
Nov 25, 2023
The heart of darkness. Voyage to the Urmston roundabout
Nov 24, 2023
Wit and Wisdom November 2023, Episode 2
Nov 20, 2023
How far can I improve my chess?
Nov 18, 2023
Suella goes down fighting. The manager has lost the dressing room
Nov 16, 2023
Suella Lagerman and Operation Raging Bull
Nov 13, 2023
Twitter wit and wisdom. November, 2023
Nov 08, 2023
How to Rescue a Hedgehog
Nov 06, 2023
Of Mice and Men. The Imagination capacities of Rodents and Chess Masters
Nov 03, 2023
Sore Losers. Andy Murray and Magnus Carlsen compared
Nov 01, 2023
Twitter Wit and Wisdom October 24-31, 2023
Nov 01, 2023
Defender or Enemy of Free Speech? Review of ‘Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover’ on PBS
Oct 30, 2023
Who are your friends? And should your boss know?
Oct 26, 2023
The Great Fruit-Fly Battle. A New Weapon in the Fight
Oct 23, 2023
Wit and wisdom of the website formerly known as Twitter
Oct 20, 2023
Chess Tantrums
Oct 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and real creativity. How I discovered the potential of ChatAI
Oct 18, 2023
William Brown, Mrs Bott and the Bubble Gum mystery
Oct 18, 2023
How to assess and understand your chess grade
Oct 12, 2023
How to speak chess. Beginners course, session 1
Oct 08, 2023
Tom Jones wins chess title. It's not unusual.
Oct 05, 2023
Twitter (now known as X) wit and wisdom, late September, 2023
Oct 02, 2023
Bridge over troubled buttocks. A ten minute programme for combating advanced muscular aches and pains
Sep 29, 2023
The Mill. An example of everyday creativity in action
Sep 29, 2023
Conversations at a crossing
Sep 24, 2023
The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tay. Who really killed the Princes in the Tower?
Sep 21, 2023
Message to Mark Brown. ‘How are the dolphins?’
Sep 19, 2023
Wit and Wisdom of 'X' was Twitter
Sep 18, 2023
Ignoble Prize winners of the year. A TudoRama report on unusual research findings
Sep 16, 2023
How to dispose of household trash safely when caught in a thunderstorm. An educational podcast.
Sep 14, 2023
Caïssa, the Goddess of Chess
Sep 09, 2023
The first tweets of Autumn
Sep 09, 2023
Blairism without Tony Blair. Can Labour pull it off?
Sep 06, 2023
Is this the end of the Didsbury Literary and Philosophical Society?
Sep 01, 2023
Say goodbye to Twitter, welcome to XWTF
Sep 01, 2023
The Creative Process In Chess and Everyday Life.
Aug 26, 2023
The last tweets of August
Aug 25, 2023
The Fat One. The Football World Cup Final, 2023
Aug 23, 2023
England Lionesses v Australia’s Matildas. A Sofa Drama
Aug 19, 2023
Donald Trump and the Georgia “Witch Hunt”
Aug 16, 2023
Bibby Barge Bingo
Aug 14, 2023
Shakespeare banned in Florida’s schools for its ‘rauchiness’
Aug 11, 2023
On lapses of concentration. A message for chess and tennis players
Aug 08, 2023
Twitter Wit and Wisdom. Obituary Edition, July 2023
Aug 03, 2023
Trump is indicted, but what is really on trial is far more important
Aug 02, 2023
My Barbie film treat
Jul 27, 2023
Greek geek beats Pluto to win Goat of the year award
Jul 26, 2023
A grammar book walks into a bar. A play about words.
Jul 23, 2023
Nigel Farage, Coutts, and a tale of biometric mishaps
Jul 21, 2023
Wimbledon 2023 wit and wisdom as captured by Twitter
Jul 18, 2023
BBC melt down as the Huw Edwards drama unfolds
Jul 14, 2023
My favourite trousers, part 2. In search of lost pants
Jul 10, 2023
Zuckerberg launches Threads. Is twitter sunk?
Jul 07, 2023
My favourite trousers and how I have sorely abused them
Jul 05, 2023
Wimbledonitis.
Jul 03, 2023
Whatever happened to the Manchester Business School?
Jun 29, 2023
Twenty Tweets of the Month
Jun 26, 2023
Love Is. A poem read by Steve Jaffa Brown
Jun 24, 2023
Top Five Tweets June 2023
Jun 23, 2023
How to improve your chess by benchmarking
Jun 21, 2023
Thought for the day. Conspiracy theories
Jun 18, 2023
A cynical take on politics
Jun 15, 2023
A day is a long time in politics. The resignation of Boris Johnson
Jun 12, 2023
Prayer for tourists
Jun 10, 2023
How (not) to publicise your chess club. Confessions of a publicity officer.
Jun 07, 2023
Twitter wit and wisdom June 2023
Jun 07, 2023
How to play backgammon. Lesson 2
Jun 04, 2023
Learning to play backgammon LESSON 1
Jun 02, 2023
Strong leadership revisited
Jun 02, 2023
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! Yeah, yeah, whatever
Jun 01, 2023
The Desperadoes of Didsbury
May 29, 2023
Obituary: Martin Amis ‘The Mick Jagger of Literature’
May 28, 2023
Everyday Creativity and Creative Leadership
May 25, 2023
Favourite Tweets May 2023
May 24, 2023
To tell or not to tell? That is the question.
May 21, 2023
How to write a great book blurb
May 19, 2023
Twitter Wit and Wisdom May 2023
May 14, 2023
William's Coronation Party
May 09, 2023
Creativity and Lateral Thinking: A Personal Perspective
May 08, 2023
If I were a cat ...
May 06, 2023
Ode to Ding. A Coronation special
May 03, 2023
Michelle O’Neill is nominated Leader of the Month for April 2023 by Leaders we deserve blog
May 03, 2023
Richard Sharp resigns as Chairman of the BBC
Apr 28, 2023
Hollywood comes to Wrexham
Apr 26, 2023
Life's full of surprises ...
Apr 23, 2023
Trust based leadership. An interview with Dr Murray Clark
Apr 22, 2023
Dilemmas of Leadership. What Rishi Sunak must learn from Elon Musk in dealing with the Dominic Raab report
Apr 21, 2023
Do you sell haircuts? A shaggy hair story
Apr 20, 2023
The Brecon Beacons name change stirs up strong emotions, but not in the valleys
Apr 19, 2023
Twitter Wit and Wisdom under the new ownership of Elon Musk
Apr 16, 2023
'I did it my way' Elon Musk's interview with the BBC
Apr 13, 2023
'In Bumble, Women are White'. But not in a sexist way
Apr 10, 2023
Tennessee demonstrates the problems facing America over gun controls
Apr 07, 2023
Sporting Families. How a love of sport develops
Apr 06, 2023
How to estimate your chess grade using Lichess
Apr 05, 2023
Finnish finish. The rise and fall of Sanna Marin
Apr 05, 2023
What makes a good April Fool Joke? I test out a theory
Apr 01, 2023
The Boiled Frog Trap. A Cautionary Chess Tale
Mar 29, 2023
Creativity and Innovation Management. A 30 year birthday message
Mar 28, 2023
A funny thing happened to me at the Albatross, last weekend
Mar 27, 2023
Should creativity and chess be included in the Olympic Games?
Mar 25, 2023
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Three jokes about penguins and cows
Mar 24, 2023
The day Vincent Kompany came into my classroom
Mar 18, 2023
Gary Lineker versus the BBC. A case study in creative leadership
Mar 17, 2023
Dick Fosbury and the Fosbury Flop. How creativity changed a sport.
Mar 15, 2023
Thought for the day. A close encounter with a Wheelie Bin
Mar 09, 2023
Make Britain Great Again. Stop the Boats
Mar 08, 2023
Manchester Reds mourn a 7-0 mauling by Liverpool FC at Anfield
Mar 06, 2023
How to win a chess game from a losing position. Enter Houdini
Mar 04, 2023
The Grubby World of Whistle Blowing and Media Scoops
Mar 01, 2023
Goodbye the Northern Ireland Protocol, Hello the Windsor Framework
Feb 27, 2023
TurnipGate. The Twitter Talking Point of the Week
Feb 24, 2023
William's Coaching Session. Lucky Leaders and Coaching to Strengths
Feb 22, 2023
I’ve let the team down. Now I must make amends
Feb 22, 2023
How to live a long and fulfilled life
Feb 20, 2023
A close encounter with an angry man
Feb 18, 2023
Dr Glycol’s advice for storing raspberries
Feb 17, 2023
How to Create great groan-worthy puns. A lesson from a master
Feb 15, 2023
Wales v Scotland, Murrayfield February 2023
Feb 12, 2023
How the Mighty have Fallen. Wales Slink into Murrayfield Fearing the Worse
Feb 11, 2023
Volodymyr Zelensky. A Leader Speaks and Changes the Course of History
Feb 09, 2023
Banned Books Week, and the suppression of freedom
Feb 08, 2023
If I Survive You, by Jonathan Escoffery
Feb 06, 2023
Nessie’s lair located in Yorkshire. 200 yard long earthworms travel underground to Loch Ness in Scotland
Feb 05, 2023
How I changed my social life with one simple action
Feb 03, 2023
Tackling Rugby's Tackling Problems
Feb 01, 2023
Unsung Chess Heroes. The East Cheshire Grand Prix Tournament.
Jan 27, 2023
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Twenty Three. An Inspector Calls
Jan 26, 2023
Men in Tights. Ballet’s Closest Secrets Investigated.
Jan 24, 2023
How I escaped the Urmston Roundabout Death Trap
Jan 23, 2023
Jacinda Arden
Jan 20, 2023
William becomes a Guinea Pig
Jan 17, 2023
Why Washing Machine Deliverers won’t Run a Test Wash
Jan 16, 2023
What to do after a pothole accident
Jan 16, 2023
Andrew Tate. 'He’s not a billionaire chess master. He’s just a very naughty boy'
Jan 11, 2023
Billy Bobble and the Poynton Pelicans. Chapter Two ‘Got an Ambulance Ready?’
Jan 10, 2023
Dr Glycol’s Chemical Cooking. Boneless Lamb Leg Joint
Jan 08, 2023
Everyday Creativity. The Resourcefulness of Delivery Drivers
Jan 05, 2023
East Cheddar Chess Team Shock the Chess World
Jan 04, 2023
Twitter Wit and wisdom. New Year Edition 2023
Jan 03, 2023
Billy Bobble and the Poynton Pelicans. A Football Fantasy Chapter 1
Dec 30, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Twenty Two: The Enemy Within
Dec 28, 2022
My Big Birthday Blunder and the Ghost of Christmas Presents
Dec 28, 2022
The Secret of the Stars. A Christmas Fairy Story
Dec 22, 2022
Everyday Creativity Christmas Message. Not the Thought for the Day
Dec 21, 2022
The great Twitter resignation debate
Dec 19, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Twenty One. The Fellowship
Dec 18, 2022
On Losing the Only Copy of your Manuscript
Dec 17, 2022
Pages from the Cookbook of the Curious Chemist: Chicken Madras
Dec 15, 2022
Twitter Wit and Wisdom No 2 'You've Got to Laugh'
Dec 14, 2022
Wittgenstein's Poker. More than just an Academic Fairy-Tale
Dec 12, 2022
Twitter Wit and Wisdom No 1
Dec 09, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Twenty. Jessica Gets involved
Dec 08, 2022
How I came to terms with my Wokeness and Goblin modes
Dec 07, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Nineteen. 'I must contact Dando'.
Dec 07, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Eighteen. Hudson Baye's Story
Dec 06, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter seventeen. A Visit to the Zoo
Dec 05, 2022
The Lapwing Lane Literary and Philosophic Society
Dec 04, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Sixteen. A Mystery at the Zoo
Dec 02, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Fifteen. Puppy Walking
Nov 30, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Fourteen. The New Liaison Officer
Nov 30, 2022
'Where are you really from?' An uncomfortable meeting at Buckingham Palace
Nov 30, 2022
How much water do you need to drink every day? The answer might surprise you
Nov 29, 2022
The Human Side of Creativity: Everyday Creativity and Human Potential
Nov 23, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Thirteen: Susie Yup moves in
Nov 21, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter 12. The Crime Busters
Nov 18, 2022
Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner Duke it out at PMQs
Nov 17, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Eleven. A Funeral Takes Place
Nov 16, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Nine. The Librarian has Landed
Nov 14, 2022
Sustainable Bramhall
Nov 14, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Ten. A Sudden Death
Nov 12, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Eight. Jessica Starts her Detective Agency
Nov 11, 2022
Gavin Williamson resigns. I discover a new team role.
Nov 09, 2022
Building an idea. A co-creativity workshop
Nov 08, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Seven. A Slow Recovery
Nov 03, 2022
Chairman Rishi and his Team from Hell
Nov 03, 2022
Why I won’t be paying Elon Musk $8 a month for a blue tick on my Twitter account.
Nov 02, 2022
How Ideas Mushroom. A Tudorama Team Project
Nov 01, 2022
The Great Fruit Fly Battle
Oct 27, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Six Visitors to a Sick Bed
Oct 27, 2022
Rishi Sunak's First PMQs. The Re-appointment of Suella Braverman
Oct 26, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Five: John Keane leaves Meniscus
Oct 26, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Four. First days at Urmston University
Oct 26, 2022
What a friend we have in Rishi
Oct 25, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership. Chapter 3, Montague Beamer's Beehive
Oct 22, 2022
Will Boris Bounce Back? I Find the Answer in The Wind in the Willows
Oct 21, 2022
Frantic Friday as the prime Minister sacks her Chancellor
Oct 20, 2022
An hour is a long time in politics. Woeful Wednesday for the Prime Minister
Oct 20, 2022
Watching Paint Dry. The 50 Move Rule in Chess
Oct 18, 2022
Frantic Friday as the Prime Minister struggles for her survival
Oct 16, 2022
The Elon Musk Show BBC2 Part1. How to show a girl a good rocket video
Oct 15, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Two. Wendy Lockinge. A New Career.
Oct 13, 2022
Angela Lansbury. The Detective writer who wasn’t.
Oct 12, 2022
Dark Justice. Prologue
Oct 11, 2022
The Chronicles of Leadership. Prelude and Chapter One
Oct 10, 2022
Twenty-first century marketing and common pitfalls
Oct 07, 2022
Chess is the new Rock and Roll
Oct 05, 2022
Goat Whisperers (with added English verses)
Oct 04, 2022
The Goat Whisperers of Brecon
Oct 02, 2022
Chronicles of Leadership. Birth of a whodunit.
Sep 30, 2022
Liz Truss speaks to local journalists
Sep 30, 2022
This England. Boris Johnson's hair gives an award-winning performance
Sep 29, 2022
Rachel Reeves and the BBC Gaze
Sep 27, 2022
The Queen's passing as an outburst of everyday creativity
Sep 26, 2022
Heroes and Villains in the pageantry of the Queen's funeral
Sep 21, 2022
Servant Leadership. A time to dust down an old idea?
Sep 20, 2022
Lizzie Truss picked up an Axe
Sep 18, 2022
How I reset my router password
Sep 14, 2022
The Armchair Revolutionary: On walking and chewing gum at the same time.
Sep 12, 2022
The Loyal Lockdown
Sep 10, 2022
How long should a nation mourn?
Sep 09, 2022
The Coronation of Queen Liz the Third
Sep 07, 2022
No, our next Prime Minister is not going to be Theresa May
Sep 06, 2022
A conversation with Tudor Rickards
Sep 05, 2022
Thought for the day. A meditation on a Which report
Sep 03, 2022
Stay alive, stay creative. A conversation with myself
Sep 02, 2022
Garry Kasparov on the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev
Aug 31, 2022
The Notting Hill Carnival 'A great carnivore appears in London'
Aug 29, 2022
Thought for the day. Why you shouldn’t watch the film ‘Nope’
Aug 25, 2022
To BS or not BS, that is the question
Aug 25, 2022
Interview with Steve the Didsbury Poet
Aug 24, 2022
An Olive Branch to the 1%…And Mankind A poem by Steve Jaffa Brown
Aug 23, 2022
BBC Five and the boiled frog syndrome
Aug 22, 2022
How did they think of that? An example of everyday creativity
Aug 21, 2022
England Cricket re-enters the stone-age
Aug 19, 2022
Hello Euston my old friend
Aug 19, 2022
Drought reaches Manchester, the Venice of the North.
Aug 17, 2022
Who stole our football results? A TudoRama exclusive
Aug 13, 2022
Thought for the day. 'When this bloody war is over ...'
Aug 12, 2022
Ghosts haunt the ground at Old Trafford
Aug 10, 2022
The toothless nation. Decline of a great national asset
Aug 08, 2022
My Perilous Porridge Panic
Aug 07, 2022
I meet Steve the Poet
Aug 06, 2022
The Archie Battersby Tragedy
Aug 05, 2022
The killing game. Don't try this over Christmas.
Aug 03, 2022
Everyday Creativity. What we can learn from Twitter
Aug 02, 2022
A Podcast from Womberly Stadium. The winners’ ceremony and beyond
Aug 01, 2022
Moscow chess robot accused of breaking finger of its opponent
Jul 29, 2022
Sherlock Holmes and the case of the mystic tennis racquets
Jul 28, 2022
Adventures of a community chess club. A battle for survival.
Jul 27, 2022
The sad passing of Classical Chess and Five Day Cricket
Jul 27, 2022
Boris Johnson's Return. Operation Wrecking Ball
Jul 25, 2022
Methinks the Author doth protest too much
Jul 23, 2022
Traffic chaos at Dover. A rebuttal from France
Jul 23, 2022
The Virtuous Bookclub. Help us Select a Name
Jul 22, 2022
Charismatic Kemi Badenoch reminds me of another politician who once won a party’s affections.
Jul 20, 2022
Author Support Networks. How to beat the loneliness of publishing
Jul 19, 2022
Choosing a New Prime Minister. Why I'm voting for a jar of pickled onions
Jul 17, 2022
Choosing a New Prime Minister. The Beauty Contests start
Jul 16, 2022
Everyday Creativity. Going to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands
Jul 15, 2022
Choosing a New Prime Minister. The Culling continues
Jul 15, 2022
Choosing a new Prime Minister The first culling of candidates
Jul 14, 2022
Choosing a new Prime Minister. The game's afoot.
Jul 13, 2022
The end of an era. Boris Johnson departs. Or does he?
Jul 13, 2022
Wimbledon 2022 Day 14 The men's singles final. Djokovic v Kyrgios
Jul 10, 2022
Wimbledon 2022 Day 13 Ons Jabeur and Elinor Rybakia compete for the Singles title
Jul 09, 2022
Jonathan Levitt, Chess Grandmaster talks to TudoRama about chess, humour, and gambling.
Jul 09, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 12 Semifinal Norrie v Djokovic
Jul 08, 2022
What makes a good idea, and what you should do immediately to turn it into action.
Jul 08, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 11 Ladies’ Semi-finals, and the Wagababies
Jul 07, 2022
Boris bows out. The last days of the Premiership of Boris Johnson
Jul 07, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 10 Semifinals. Nadal and Kyrgios
Jul 06, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Mid-Tournament review
Jul 06, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 9 Cameron Norrie and the Gods of tennis
Jul 05, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 8. Nadal and Kyrgios head for the quarterfinals
Jul 04, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 7 Middle Sunday
Jul 03, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 6. Middle Saturday. Bad boy Kyrgios beats Tsitsipas
Jul 02, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 5 Jamie and Venus give a masterclass in mixed doubles
Jul 01, 2022
Wimbledon 2022 Day 4 The Brits bite back
Jun 30, 2022
Wimbledon 2022. Day 1 The magic begins
Jun 30, 2022
Wimbledon 2022 Day 3 Emma and Andy bow out
Jun 29, 2022
Wimbledon 2022 Day 2. Serena and Nadal
Jun 29, 2022
You can't be serious
Jun 27, 2022
The overturning of the Roe Wade Abortion ruling drags the United States back to their earlier battles over human rights.
Jun 25, 2022
Contemplating Comedy
Jun 22, 2022
Has Google created a sentient chatbot? The silence of the LaMDA
Jun 16, 2022
Sue Barker quits the BBC to join dynamic young organisation TudoRama
Jun 12, 2022
Haydn James. A life in music and rugby
Jun 10, 2022
Boris, me and the BBC. The Confidence Vote, June 2022
Jun 09, 2022
SATS. Are school tests hindering the creative development of pupils?
Jun 06, 2022
The Street Party
May 29, 2022
'We have to act' President Biden
May 25, 2022
Everyday creativity. The man who wrote eight thousand film reviews
May 21, 2022
The Wagatha Christie trial as it came to me in a dream
May 16, 2022
The myth of the strong leader. The case of Vladimir Putin
May 13, 2022
How to dream up great ideas: A workshop on everyday creativity
May 05, 2022
Charismatic leaders. A view from Lords and the Vatican
May 02, 2022
World's richest man buys Twitter as the ultimate status symbol and plaything
Apr 28, 2022
European cultures, A Brazilian view
Apr 25, 2022
‘We have lift-off’. How the Tudorama podcasters help in the publishing of a book
Apr 16, 2022
Podcasting Perils of Plagiarism
Apr 13, 2022
How I Created my First Podcast
Mar 30, 2022