Formative Communications

01/08/2026

Summer reading I guess 😇
The evergreen writing techniques that never go out of date. Many of the editing tips we teach come from the master himself, George Orwell.

01/08/2026

AI can possibly, maybe do a lot of the remembering, retrieving, and even pattern‑spotting that we used to associate with being a right old smarty pants around the office.

So, our value increasingly lies in how we question information, make judgements, not in how fast we can process inputs.

Read more here about our latest thinking on ..... thinking 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKgZBBkw 😇

06/02/2026

I have great faith in the next generation.

I went to the Brussels Press Club yesterday to hear Dave Keating ( https://www.davekeating.net ) from his new book “The Owned Continent.” How Europe signed up to a Faustian bargain because it was rather comfortable and politically expedient. And how Europe might respond now our benefactors (The US) are going rogue on us.

Thank you, Dave Keating for the reading, the discussion and for signing a copy of your book for my daughter Lily Manasseh. She is studying law and international relations at the University of Sussex and I pin my hopes on her and her contemporaries. They might just be able to help us Europeans through the mess our leaders have created and political choices that we voted for.

One clear message for all is us is education. If young Europeans do not understand how they are governed by their national governments and the EU, how can they possibly influence those who set the rules?

My message to anyone who values and loves Europe like I do. Read this book and then pass it on to someone you know in the next generation. It might just be the best thing you have done so far this year.

Check out Dave Keating's Substack for this and more https://lnkd.in/g2rkZnhk

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