INTELLIGENCE / PUBLIC LANGUAGE / 2026
Change starts in language.We tell you what’s really being said.
Public language is rarely neutral. It prepares audiences, redefines choices and makes future action possible.
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Simply Not “Kansas”: A Central Banker Reaches for Quantum
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” I was reminded of Hunter Thompson’s line by a speech from Ravi Menon,…
Analysis
The Future of AI in three metaphors.
Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Shanghai speech opening the 2026 World AI Conference It started in New Hampshire Xi opens not in China…
Analysis
Which Ocean?
Which Map? This week, in Melbourne, two prime ministers looked out across the same ocean and saw two different things. Australian PM…
Politics
Which No 10? Which Britain?
Political commentators love the phrase “the battle for Number 10”. It’s shorthand for a general election. Until this week. In his speech…
TED
Malala “On Failure”: The Sad Arc of Public Life
On her 16th Birthday, 12th July 2013, Malala Yousafzai made a speech at the United Nations, on the importance of education; the…
Politics
“I must confess” : Bernie Sanders and The Last Armour.
In St Paul, Minnesota, Bernie Sanders delivered a strong speech to the “No KIngs” rally. He spoke from notes; and the speech…
THE METHOD / LANGUAGE AS EVIDENCE
Words reveal the change before the policy does.
Talks Decoded examines framing, metaphor, register, repetition and omission across public speech—finding the shifts that conventional commentary misses.