So Crossrail, the largest infrastructure project in Europe, is going to cost up to 2 billion pounds more than budgeted, with no end date in sight.I’m not sure how to view this other than a huge embarrassment. The problem is, nobody is prepared to carry the can. Department for Transport NOTFL NOMayor’s office NONo proper…

I’m told that Boris Johnson is especially clever. I remember after an “interesting” interview many years ago, when campaigning to be Mayor of London, he asked me why people were so upset that he had referred to people of colour as #pickeninnies with #watermelonsmiles.  I did try to explain it to him. He listened and nodded,…

My story of the month and maybe of the year is the one of the 12 boys stuck in a cave for more than two weeks with their coach. Every time I get near to despair when it comes to humans and how stupid we are, I see a story that makes me feel an…

A Day Of Two Halves JUNE 14TH 2018 is a day I will never forget. From Buckingham Palace, talking music with the future King, to a mosque in the shadow of Grenfell Tower, interviewing a man who had lost the will to live after the death of his father, it brought tears to my eyes.  It…

I’m going to the palace this month for my MBE and haven’t even bothered to get a suit yet.  It’s a man thing I suppose, leaving stuff TIL the last minute Mrs Nestor though, has had dresses in a 6, 8 and 10. She has tried them in purple, blue and orange. Should she wrap,…

Greetings, I went for that test this week. I had been putting off for over a decade now.   So even though I have had cancer and have friends who’ve had prostate cancer and know that it kills a man every 45 minutes, particularly men from a black and ethnic minority community.   I am…

I earn my living by speaking, so words and their meaning are very important to me. Not just the word but how it is said, when it is said and how often it is said. This week’s word is desensitised. Now I don’t know what the dictionary says but I know what it means to…

As part of the MBE journey, I have decided to find out who I am and where I come from. Ancestry.co.uk have agreed to do the investigations and let me know, LIVE on my BBC Radio London Drivetime show. I am petrified. I know several mates who have changed their names after embarking on such a…