Celebrating his 88th birthday with a speech and a giant crocodile cake, President Mugabe of Zimbabwe certainly seemed toothless as his speech was greeted with indifference. There were no tears when it ended. Continue reading
Last year the opening match of the National Football League clashed with a speech by President Obama. But this year the opening game of the NFL has been moved to avoid a similar clash with an Obama acceptance speech. Continue reading
A fifty-two year old speech is the centre of a hotly-contested debate between Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum on the relationship between Church and State. Continue reading
Speaking in Italian, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York gave an impassioned speech to the Pope and the college of cardinals before the Pope elevated 22 new cardinals in the Vatican city, Rome. Continue reading
A President’s state of the union speech has become an annual ritual and source of some fascinating data analysed by the American Presidency Project in Santa Barbara, California. Continue reading
