Rhetoric and Leadership: Soft Power https://blog.iese.edu/leggett Brian O'C Leggett's blog Sun, 07 Jun 2020 11:23:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 It’s Brexit, once again! https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2020/06/07/its-brexit-once-again/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 11:23:21 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1395 There is a new man on the Brexit block, as they say, and his name is David Frost. But few have heard of this elusive bureaucrat. No, he is not the famous TV interviewer of the Nixon interviews or ‘That Was the Week that Was’ (he died seven years ago), but another David Frost. This […]

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]]> Rhetoric makes the news! https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2020/02/10/rhetoric-makes-the-news/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:59:19 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1392 “Rhetoric makes the news” or so it seems from reading the headlines of the British press last week. Looking at the headlines of many of the major British newspapers, you wouldn’t be faulted if you concluded that EU-UK are locked into embattled positions. However, these headlines are misleading and leave the reader with a completely […]

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]]> The new Cumming’s Government https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2020/01/20/the-new-cummings-government/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:39:32 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1389 The Brexit debate, Part 1, is over, and the inevitable will happen on the 31st January next when the UK formally leaves the European Union. The UK will probably seek a Canada Style deal with differences. The clever Mr Olly Robbins, the UK civil servant who negotiated Mrs May’s deal, has left the civil service […]

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]]> Now it’s SIR Ollie! https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/09/13/now-its-sir-ollie/ https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/09/13/now-its-sir-ollie/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:45:11 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1383 The Times of London told us on Friday, 13 September that Ollie Robbins, now Sir Oliver Robbins, who led the official talks on Mrs May’s deal, is alive and well in his Whitehall office. Indeed, it seems that Boris Johnson wants him included in his current team negotiating with the EU. Strange, you think, why […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/09/13/now-its-sir-ollie/feed/ 1 Can Mr Johnson invent an acceptable fudge? https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/08/27/can-mr-johnson-invent-acceptable-fudge/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:42:51 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1379 Now that Ollie Robbins, the British civil servant and author of Mrs. May’s Brexit deal, has gone into self exile, the Boris Johnson show is well on the road. What will happen on Halloween is the biggest issue in European politics now. For sure the Brexit deal will be a fudge of some kind, but […]

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]]> Is it a new adventure in film or merely propaganda? https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/06/07/is-it-a-new-adventure-in-film-or-merely-propaganda/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 14:54:22 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1374 Political communication was once the domain of deliberate (another word for political) rhetoric and public speeches, and then in the 20th century developed to include radio, television and film.  Now film as a medium has taken one more step with the emergence of the Obamas and the Clintons producing what may be construed as their […]

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]]> The question is how will Mrs. May leave Downing Street? https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/05/14/the-question-is-how-will-mrs-may-leave-downing-street/ Tue, 14 May 2019 19:23:13 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1371  “Theresa May’s political career has been written off many times but she has now surely run out of road. This week she will meet with the executive of the Conservative Party’s backbench 1922 Committee who will press her for a date for her departure as prime minister” wrote the London Times last Monday. Her party […]

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]]> Reading Julius Caesar may help Mrs May https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/04/15/reading-julius-caesar-may-help-mrs-may/ https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/04/15/reading-julius-caesar-may-help-mrs-may/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:02:51 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1368 A heading from the London Times last Monday read “Brexit-weary Britons long for political strongman”. It was the result of an opinion poll carried out by the Hansard Society, where some 54% of respondents agreed that Britain needed a strong rule-breaking leader. This, of course, raises the whole question of Mrs May’s leadership of the […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/04/15/reading-julius-caesar-may-help-mrs-may/feed/ 1 Is it good-bye Mrs May? https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/03/23/is-it-good-bye-mrs-may/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:51:26 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1365 Thursday, 21st March, a thousand days since the vote, another historical day in the Brexit saga! But next week promises to be even more interesting. We were told over and over again, “Brexit means Brexit”, and the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on the 29th March 2019. Parliament has rejected Mrs May’s ‘withdrawal […]

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]]> Nothing is ever what it appears to be! https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2019/02/18/nothing-is-ever-what-it-appears-to-be/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:09:49 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/leggett/?p=1357 Now we have reached the last lap of the Brexit debate before the final date at the end of March, and the pressure is mounting. Ireland will be pressurised by both London and the EU on the ‘backstop’, the EU will be pressurised by London to give some substantial concession. London, in turn, will pressurise […]

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