This involves me shouting questions at a room full of 150 slightly startled looking youth workers. I'm somewhat disappointed that most of them mistakenly believe that Barack Obama, rather than Theodore Roosevelt, was the youngest US President. (Roosevelt was 42, you know).
Friday - To Buckinghamshire to help induct our new cohort of 15 Changemakers Young Advocates - as usual they are an energetic and impressive group. I'm already feeling my age when around 9pm, albeit under the negative influence of a nasty bout of man flu, I succumb to the urge to retire to bed. Can it only be a decade ago that I was carousing into the early hours and then training new student leaders at the National Union of Students on nothing more than three hours sleep and a full English?
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