Nelson Mandela Articles

This time next week Ed Miliband be will giving his last speech to Labour party conference before the general election. The conference speech remains a moment of high drama and tension for any speaker and quite often the audience as well. To get you in the mood for...

Nelson Mandela was fond of Martin Luther King’s phrase, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’. Barack Obama was surely right to say of Mandela that he ‘took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice’....

The great Nelson Mandela embodied the dream of freedom and justice. He will remain not just a figure of struggle for equality for black South Africans and black people around the world but a celebrated unifying figure for all. His life bought people of all races...

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...