Phil Collins Articles

I attended the One Nation, new, blue, radical or conservative? debate at the House of Commons on Tuesday evening with an open mind. Mary Riddell, chair of the event and columnist for the Daily Telegraph, explained that the event had been jointly sponsored by Progress...

Progress’ Question Time took place shortly after Ed Miliband’s speech to conference on Tuesday and as usual was wide-ranging, challenging – and controversial. Panellist Michael Leahy, general-secretary of Community, the Union for Life, welcomed a relaxed and...

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic, The 39 Steps, Robert Donat’s character is on the run from the British authorities and a network of foreign spies, being chased through the streets of a small Scottish town. In desperation, he opens a door at random and is...

The political speech, against all expectation in a networked world, still counts. The essence of the speech remains the event that Aristotle described in his Rhetoric 5,000 years ago. This volume brings the genre right up to date. John Shosky, a speechwriter for three...