I admit it. Despite my best efforts, I’m a sucker for TV talent shows. I know researchers look everywhere for just the right ‘sob story’.…
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2013 will be the year that I am finally exposed as the bigoted, prejudiced and intolerant person that I really am. For, whilst I…
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Many people contacted me after I wrote about the extraordinary Masixole Mkrakra, the young man from a rural township in South Africa, who discovered a passion…
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The UK Scouts have launched an historic consultation. Amongst other things they are considering whether or not to introduce a version of the Scout…
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This week, I made my inaugural address to The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Forum, our world conference, which is held every three years. …
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Major Sir Michael Parker, the man for so many years behind such enormous events as the Royal Tournament and other wonderful events that I remember…
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Every so often, usually when I’m visiting the USA, people do a double-take when they find out my name. “John May,” they question, “aren’t…
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Robertson Davies, one of Canada’s best known novelists, once commented about his homeland: “Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country…
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