Philip Collins

2 months ago | lookstranger.substack.com | Philip Collins

Welcome to Words of the Week, a new series in which I will help you improve the most important professional skill: the ability to communicate persuasively. Some extracts will be taken from my book, To Be Clear (2021), and others will respond to items in the news. Consider this a rallying cry for better writing as well as a non-definitive guide to how it might be done. ContentThese days every second person has the term “content” in their title.

Jan 15, 2025 | lookstranger.substack.com | Philip Collins

John Prescott, who died on 20th November last year at the age of 86, was not given to philosophy, nor to philosophers. In 2005, when the cerebral David Miliband was appointed as a minister in Prescott’s office of the deputy prime minister, Prescott told anyone who would listen, Miliband included, that “the mekons” had arrived. Yet he had no need to sound chippy.

Nov 27, 2024 | lookstranger.substack.com | Philip Collins

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Nov 22, 2024 | lookstranger.substack.com | Philip Collins

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Nov 7, 2024 | lookstranger.substack.com | Philip Collins

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