He addressed a seminar in Downing Street and a conference ("Is there a crisis of democracy?") in Pall Mall.
As the recent current events seminar wound down, I wondered what would happen if the host had the nerve to ask its participants, "What are you looking forward to?" You could imagine the faces freezing.
They are a great way to spark interest, but how many times have we seen the initial buzz of conventions and seminars die down after attendees depart for home and settle back into their everyday routines?
Their intensive lobbying of government, right up to private seminars in Downing Street, was exposed.
Both IDEO and the Design Council have given seminars in Downing Street on how design can be applied to public policy.It is easy to mock all of this as bearded nonsense (if you are on the political right) or a ruse to divert attention from cuts in essential services (if you are on the left).
He has addressed the UN general assembly and conducted a seminar at 10 Downing Street.
He is an authority on war and democracy, he has addressed the UN general assembly and has given a seminar at 10 Downing Street.
I never "chopped" them, exactly, but there was one occasion when I somehow wound up standing on top of the table in the middle of the seminar room, pointing down at one of my students, telling him, "you have to seek your truth".
So we're having a dumbing-down seminar, called 'Dumbville/Stupidville,' about how to lower the level if you're too smart.
1987 Thatcher describes ITV as "the last bastion of restrictive practices" at a Downing Street seminar on broadcasting, declaring war.
"Why on earth didn't you come and see me before, Sir Richard?" she asked thoughtfully, after he had addressed a Downing Street seminar on the subject.
