I did a BA in Youth and Community Studies at Crewe & Alsager College in the early 1980s. This also qualified me to be a teacher, though I never had any interest in doing that. - What was your first job? It was with Derbyshire County Council looking at how to implement its community education policy. That led to a community tutor post with primary schools. I hated it. Eventually, I went travelling and worked with Greenpeace in Australia, including a stint on the Rainbow Warrior. Then I ran Greenpeace in Derbyshire for...