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You might have seen UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a recent press conference repeating, ‘Next slide, please. Next slide, please.’ No10 pointed out the event itself had already been considered by Scotland Yard, which decided not to investigate it further. By integrating these phrases into your virtual event vocabulary, you can keep your dialogue flowing and cohesive. You want your audience concentrating on the information you deliver and its value, not on the mechanics of movement from slide to slide. When our producers advance slides for presenters, we ask them to consider other signaling phrases that fit more smoothly into the conversational flow and we practice them during our rehearsal so we know our cues. Below we share our favorite alternatives to “next slide”. Whitty’s supporters are defensive of mistakes in the early days of the outbreak, when he was among those who believed a flu pandemic was the best model for understanding what the UK was facing. They point out that scant evidence was filtering out from China – and say it was better to take decisions than await the fuller certainty that came with time.

Several of those in Whitehall who have worked with Whitty describe what one calls his “dry sense of humour”, while another says he is, “funny – in an academic way”. One former senior Downing Street insider who worked on the pandemic response agreed: “He is just a decent bloke. Got a few calls wrong at the start, but otherwise was bang on with advice, is very smart, works hard and is just thoroughly decent to people in a high pressure environment.”

“Take Control” – the “next slide please” killer

I’m really looking forward to seeing family and friends, I’ve not seen family and friends for a very long time, like most people,” he told a virtual event last month hosted by the Royal College of Physicians. “I’m really looking forward to getting out of London. I’m in London to work, not because I wish to live in London, and getting out to the hills in England and the mountains in Scotland, that’s a very distant, but very attractive dream.”

This was held at a time when indoor social gatherings of two or more people were banned and the Government had told people they "must" not have a Christmas party." Boris Johnson (right) and Chris Whitty arrive for a Covid-19 media briefing at Downing Street in February. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images It’s worth remembering that audiences are made up of three groups of people – auditory, visual and kinesthetic – and they all learn in different ways.With PowerPoint Live, In the meeting, everyone other than the current person presenting the slides will see the slide the presenter is presenting, but they also have a “Take Control” button. But many Tories are privately saying they are waiting for the result of the Met investigation and the full Sue Gray report to decide whether to trigger a confidence vote. Gaskins retired from Microsoft in 1993 and moved to London. He returned to the States 10 years later, an expert in antique concertinas. By then, PowerPoint had become shorthand for the stupefying indignities of office life. A 2001 New Yorker profile summed it up as “software you impose on other people”; the statistician Edward Tufte, known for his elegant monographs about data visualization, famously blamed the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster on a bum PowerPoint slide. Gaskins’s software, Tufte argued, produces relentlessly sequential, hierarchical, sloganeering, over-managed presentations, rife with “chartjunk” and devoid of real meaning. No wonder software corporations loved it.

If you have three bullet points and the first one says, Action points for 2021, it’s not helpful for you to say, ‘We have to do some important things this year.’ The audience will be looking for Action points for 2021. Visual/Imaginative learners prefer information laid out in a visual, often structured format. They love pictures, charts and graphs, will probably take notes, and often doodle when listening. Anyone who listened to the Coronavirus briefings of Prof. Chris Whitty, the UK's Chief Medical Officer, will be familiar with the title of this album, but it's also a request for more tunes to remind us of better days.

I want to be clear that I have tremendous respect for the teams of people involved in creating these maps and graphics. I also have sympathy with the scientific advisers themselves, who are treading the increasingly strained tightrope between science and politics. The fact that they are showing such a rich array of data in some quite interesting ways is a really good thing, and we need more of it. Of Sue Gray, the Press Secretary added: “She has had access to all information that is relevant and required.” Here it is. A selection of the posts remastered with the addition of the inimitable Gareth Kiddier, who has a musical CV as long as his keyboard, giving another dimension to fiddle, harmonica, and occasional jaw harp and tambourine from Martin. Here are favourite polkas, slides, barn dances, set dances, highlands and more. The PM's allies have claimed that he will not resign even if he is fined by the Metropolitan Police for breaching Covid rules. I’ve nothing against PowerPoint as such, but it should always be used as an aid, not as the driver.

Tactile/kinesthetic learners are the ‘doers’. For information to really sink in, they prefer ‘hands-on’ practical examples or exercises. Many people online also complained that the slides didn’t fit the screen. This was an error seen on the BBC only, which had set them up wrong, and wasn’t the government’s fault. However, it does suggest the government isn’t considering what devices people will use to view the press conferences. They appear to be designing for the 50-inch television they are viewing and not for the many people streaming or catching up on their phones. The choice made for this map overemphasises small leaps in small numbers at the expense of big leaps in large numbers. Unless the values up to 25 and those between 25 and 50 had significance in policy, they could have been lumped into 0-50. Likewise, the map suggests anything greater than 200 doesn’t really matter – that a rate of 201 deserves the same colour as a rate of 601. This doesn’t seem right to me. But the point is, this system needs to be explained, because choosing different intervals can create a very different impression.The top lawyer added: "In light of the new evidence it now makes no sense for this gathering not to be investigated by the police given that an almost identical gathering in the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case's office two day's later is being investigated." At this scale, PowerPoint’s impact on how the world communicates has been immeasurable. But here’s something that can be measured: Microsoft grew tenfold in the years that Robert Gaskins ran its Graphics Business Unit, and it has grown 15-fold since. Technology corporations, like PowerPoint itself, have exploded. And so have their big presentations, which are no longer held behind closed doors. They’re now semi-public affairs, watched—willingly and enthusiastically—by consumers around the world. Nobody has to worry about slide carousels getting jammed anymore, but things still go haywire all the time, from buggy tech demos to poorly-thought-out theatrics. PowerPoint had become shorthand for the stupefying indignities of office life—a 2001 New Yorker profile summed it up as “software you impose on other people.”