20th April 2018 Gaborone, Botswana
In this part of the world, elephants can wander through three different Commonwealth countries before lunch. Their routes are ancient, learned from generations of ancestors, and even a physical border like a river is no challenge to them.
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17th April 2018 Canberra, Australia
This month is all about the Commonwealth. We are on the cusp between the end of the (fantastic) Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, and the start of the Commonwealth Summit (also known as CHOGM – Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) on 16-20 April, when the baton will be handed, metaphorically, to the UK as […]
10th April 2018 Wellington, New Zealand
Henderson Island is one of the most remote islands in the world. Uninhabited, and largely untouched, it was recently found to have the highest density of plastics pollution anywhere in the world. So what has happened, and what can we do about it? Henderson is one of four Pitcairn Islands and lies bang in the […]
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10th April 2018 London, UK
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will soon be upon us. A major gathering of representatives from 53 governments who look after 2.4 billion people – a third of the world’s population – over 60% of whom are 29 or under. It’s also an opportunity for the UK to demonstrate its commitment to this multilateral […]
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13th March 2017 London, UK
When the recently elected Gambian President announced that he intended to take his country back into the Commonwealth (the previous president had withdrawn Gambia from the organisation), one of my twitter followers commented that Gambia was becoming a British colony again! For some in Turkey, the sun has never set on the British Empire. But […]