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Chris Calland Articles

Manual Labour

Not too long ago I spent a bank holiday weekend planting fence posts into a field in Somerset (long story ...) and something struck me (figuratively, not literally) – For all the toil involved in agriculture, you never really hear Labour taking about the plight of...

Writing a speech

‘Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous’. That was the caveat with which Phil Collins, former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair, began his seminar on how to write a speech, at this year's Progress political weekend. It's fitting that it's...

It’s the language, stupid

First of all a caveat – I find former No 10 policy adviser Patrick Diamond and Policy Network director Olaf Cramme to be two genuinely impressive public intellectuals. So it was with great interest that I began reading their joint article in The Guardian on 7 June about ‘why the right won yet again’.

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