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Last call for entries: Speechwriting competition – can the right words fend off protestors?

By Max Atikinson | Sat 26th February 2011 - 4:44 pm

Writing speeches with Paddy Ashdown sometimes happened at difficult times, like when we’d spent weeks preparing his announcement that he would run for the leadership in 1988 – only for it to dawn on us that we’d have to produce another one for the next day, then another, followed by almost a speech a day for the next three weeks.

Nor was it much fun when the party was at 4% in the opinion polls or, and this was probably the most difficult one of all, working on his first speech as High Representative to the parliament of Bosnia Herzegovina.
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Posted in Op-eds | Tagged bosnia herzegovina, foreign policy, gadaffi, mubarak and speechwriting | 2 Comments

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