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Every morning, I wake to the probing questions of current affairs journalists on BBC Radio 4. The responses from those in the limelight...

Last November a colleague called to ask if I would take two visitors for a tour round my ecological restoration project in Kenya. Two...

I read today that Rupert Murdoch is to be married for the fifth time. While I am not particularly interested in Murdoch, he is often...

The thirteenth of October 2023 was international day at our younger daughters’ school in Nairobi. On that day, the whole world was...

What’s racist about discussing the likely colour of your grandchild’s or niece’s skin, if the unborn child be the product of the union...