Vale Phineas Meere

Friend of Speakola Phineas Meere died suddenly this week aged 43. He was a speech spotter extraordinaire, with the eye of a hawk.

With it’s working staff of one, Speakola relies on suggestions and contributions from people out there in the wider world. People who see or hear a great speech and think ‘I’ll send that to Tony’.

I’ve had no more dedicated speech finder than Phin Meere, who I met over twenty years ago when he was a regular attendee at Triple R events and I was part of …