If I could travel in time and bring people back to my own time for a short while I would go back to the formation of the RSPB and collect some of their first volunteers. Then I would bring them back to 2008, take them to the high tide roost at Bowling Green Marsh on the Exe Estuary and show them the hundreds of avocets that flock there now, just to say thankyou.

Watched Jamie Oliver's programme on TV last night. A number of people said that they bought eggs from caged hens and cheaply produced chicken because they were on a low budget and couldn't afford to buy the more expensive humanely produced meat and eggs. I sympathise with this (while thinking that some of the people who claim poverty actually could quite well afford to eat better produced food). What interests me is how much the supermarkets pay farmers for chickens from each type of production. The farmer of birds reared intensively said he makes 3p per chicken from the supermarkets - is this the amount after he's taken off what it costs him to rear the birds? Just how much of a mark up do supermarkets put on chicken - could they do more to make humanely produced food affordable? They do make huge profits each year - including the cheaper supermarkets.

OK, car parks are really good places for recycling bins, but I wish the council would put them next to the Pay and Display machines. The number of times I've trekked across the car park towards a large notice thinking its the ticket machine and discovered its a bottle bank . . .

As Kenyan politicians fuel the fires of tribal rivalry for their own ends, the Independent on Sunday coverage suggests the light of anarchism emerging faintly. While voting has indeed been along tribal lines and some Kenyans have responded to incitements to tribal hatred, reports suggest a number of them are fed up that ordinary people are reaping the whirlwind of the power-hungry politicians machinations. It’s not the politicians, fat and rich on the proceeds of nepotism, who are losing their homes, families, businesses and lives – it’s working Kenyans, many living on only a dollar a day as it is.

Kenyan politics has been riven with corruption for years, now it seems more and more ordinary Kenyans are deciding that the enemies are not their neighbours from different tribes, but their rich, machiavellian and dishonest ‘leaders’. The philosophy of anarchism – that giving power to leaders, rulers and politicians leads to tyranny – is writ large in Kenya at the moment. If you give people the right to rule you, you invite them to grow rich and powerful at your expense. The ordinary Kenyan people have the power to break the cycle of poverty and corruption in their country, and the fact that many neighbourhoods and families are from mixed tribal backgrounds may give them the will and the tools.

It is often said that anarchists must have a lot of faith in human nature, no one has yet explained why the belief that no one is fit to rule over anyone else requires faith in human nature.