The skill of making memorable speeches

This great Diamond Jubilee had a missing ingredient
The British have lost the skill of making memorable speeches to mark big occasions, says Harry Mount. 

The British do ceremonial occasions like nobody else on earth. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Certainly, yesterday’s Jubilee celebrations showed our ceremonial architecture at its best – from St Paul’s Cathedral, showcase of British baroque, right back to Westminster Hall, an 11th-century survival from William Rufus’s reign. The military spectacle, the ceremonial uniforms, the royal fanfares… Tick, tick, tick. But something was missing – memorable oratory.

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