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A recent blog has caught my eye. It’s Why Hate Speech is Not Free Speech by Professor George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972, and it’s... Read More

Welcome to this year’s rant at the worst of email marketing.  It will probably be my last on this subject.  At 7000 words, it is by far the longest blog I have written.  Why?  Because I want to illustrate the wide range and number of issues, all of which need to be addressed well... Read More

A correspondent to the local rag asked us to contact Ed Davey and David Cameron to tell them to pull their fingers out on climate change (my words!). However, this would be a futile gesture as it misunderstands the intentions and motives of senior politicians in all countries.... Read More

The meaning of your communication lies in the response you get (Bodenhammer and Hall, The user’s manual for the brain, Crown House, 2000, p79). A well known NLP presupposition, of course (well known to NLP people, that is). But is it actually correct? It’s an important... Read More

In my youth, I was fascinated by words and the derivations. I remember discovering that helicopter comes from two Greek words. Not ‘heli’ and ‘copter’, as you might think, but ‘helico’ (as in helical, or helix, ie a spiral) and ‘pter’ (a wing, as in a word known to all small... Read More