Ambassador Kimani speaks, the world listens

Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the UN delivers a speech which reminds us of the power of words.

Speech analysisMateo SewilloFebruary 23, 2022speeches, united nations, kenya, ukraine, russia, empire

The secret to writing persuasive speeches

Who was Alan Monroe and what did he teach us about writing persuasive speeches?

Speechwriting techniquesMateo SewilloJanuary 16, 2022speeches, speechwriting, monroe, technique

Analysing Anthony Albanese's campaign launch speech

In this post, I want to isolate and analyse the key lines in Albanese’s speech and share some thoughts about its writing and how it fits into Labor’s broader campaign strategy.

Australian politics, Speech analysisMateo SewilloDecember 13, 2021labor, albanese, elections, campaigns, speeches, analysis

Analysing Greg Hunt's retirement speech

Greg Hunt’s final bow in federal politics, broken down in great detail.

Speechwriting is like: following a recipe

The second entry in my series considering analogies to writing.

speechwriting is likeMateo SewilloDecember 2, 2021speechwriting, speeches, cooking, recipes

They didn’t say that: some of history’s most famous misquotes

A proudly non-exhaustive list of some of history’s most enduring misquotes.

Mateo SewilloNovember 29, 2021speeches, quotes, misquotes, einstein, shakespeare, churchill, twain, monroe

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