The Observer, 25 January 2004
Carl Wilkinson is becalmed for days on a Kenyan beach - not much use when you’re there to master the extreme sport of kite-surfing. But staying in a tropical idyll has its compensations…
Oh, for some wind. I sit on the beach like the Ancient Mariner’s long-lost great-great-grandson, twiddling my thumbs [...]

Telegraph, 10 January 2004
‘Ah-tennnn-shun!” barks the man with the swagger stick. It is 1900 hours on a rainy Tuesday in central London and 100 students, dressed in combats, berets and neatly polished boots, are formed in rank and file. This is not a get-together of militant anti-fees protesters preparing to march on Whitehall, but the [...]