Saying their piece: Richard Seebohm’s Thought for the Week

‘This is more dangerous than hurt or hatred.’

by Richard Seebohm 20th February 2026

This Christmas I came by a book called Voices of History, an assembly of famous speeches compiled by Simon Sebag Montefiore. There was Churchill, Lincoln, Luther King Jnr, Hitler… I said to myself: this is old hat, I don’t need it. But inside I found passages that were deeply thought-changing. There is a world of difference between a talk that tells you something and a speech that turns your life around.