I used to be a kingfisher. And before that, an imp. Yes, as an eager Brownie Guide in the 1970s, dressed in a uniform of yellow and brown (fortunately, two colours that were in vogue that decade), my ...

The new Girl Guides Promise has gotten rid of God and country. You can hear people in the shires coughing into their cornflakes all the way from central London. It has political correctness gone mad ...