Devouring the Financial Times over a good espresso has become something of a fixture of my weekends. One particularly interesting article from this weekend’s edition concerned Obama’s oratory; political junkies, English students and Toby-Ziegler-from-the-West Wing fans alike should savour this introduction to the tricolon, anaphora and the molossus and their use from Greek times through to the present day.

Perhaps less entertainingly, but it’s also worth noting that the current interest in rhetoric and oratory has spawned another high-brow reality show on BBC, namely The Speaker.