🚨🚨🚨NEWSLETTER ALERT🚨🚨🚨 First Draft 30 lands tomorrow and it’s a special edition. 30 writing rules for 30 newsletters. Sign up for the trade secrets straight to your inbox. thedraft.substack.com

Good tips on writing from First Draft (I cut 30 down to 8 in the spirit of #4) thedraft.substack.com/p/first-draft-…

Final push for our First Draft special on how to write better at work. thedraft.substack.com/p/first-draft-…

Our founder Philip Collins delivers his verdict on fourteen years of Tory government. ✏️ Read for free below.

‘Drivers’ to ‘deliverables’ – ditch the jargon, start actually communicating #pr #comms buff.ly/3vJGC38

"We differentiate ourselves by sectorising and uniquely branding our sub-sectors" says Compass on its website. What is going on here? Why do people talk in this jargon at work when they would never dream of doing so at home? ✍️ Philip Collins shorturl.at/gkmqC

Would you vote for a political party that offered the slogan “a shop of love”? Our founder, Philip Collins, on India's Congress party and the world’s most consequential democratic election: thetimes.co.uk/article/gandhi…

First Draft election special lands imminently, ft analysis of Sunak's rhetorical flaws, via a comparison with Emmanuel Macron. Sign up to join over 3000 subscribers and get it direct this PM thedraft.substack.com

First Draft, our newsletter on public language, is live! With a comparison of two speeches by Sunak and Macron. Plus, why "our country is at a crossroads" is a nonsensical political cliche. Read and sign up here thedraft.substack.com/p/first-draft-…

"A manifesto is a strange event in any case..." Our Writer-in-Chief Philip Collins on the meaning of the Labour manifesto. lookstranger.substack.com/p/let-us-face-…

🎄🎄🎄🎄Festive First Draft is almost here - featuring the King's Christmas address, the truth behind populist lies and jargon busting galore. Sign up here to get it thedraft.substack.com

The Draft is now on Bluesky 🦋 Find and follow us: bsky.app/profile/thedra…

On Trump's inaugural: spectator.co.uk/article/trump-…

"It was eight parts inaugural boilerplate to one part foolish partisanship, and one part a promise for the future, a promise that the golden age starts now." ✍️Our founder, Philip Collins , on Trump's inaugural speech: spectator.co.uk/article/trump-…

‘The Rise of the Meritocracy’, from which the term passed into common language, was not a commendation of the idea but a dystopian warning against it. What does ‘merit’ mean for Labour today? prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/69138…

Blue Labour. Where it comes from and where, if anywhere, it might be going: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/69342…

***First Draft 34 lands imminently*** This month with morsels on Vatican succession, the rise of "political levers" and lessons from the most successful pressure group in British history - sign up to get it in your inbox thedraft.substack.com

First Draft 34 has landed. Click here to read it and join over three thousand subscribers thedraft.substack.com/p/first-draft-…

Want to be a better writer? Someone on your team use too much jargon? Bookings are open for our latest Mini MBA in Communication which runs from 𝟭𝟱 𝗦𝗲𝗽 for 8 weeks. It's 100% remote and made for busy work schedules. Interested? Get in touch at [email protected]

🚨🚨🚨First Draft - our newsletter on language - lands imminently. With Trump's F-bomb, the Bayeux Tapestry, the struggle to sound human and many more cultural and political morsels. To receive it, join thousands of subs by signing up here thedraft.substack.com