The former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell described the book as "a thoughtful guidebook to the troubled times we live in".
From 1979 to 2000 he and his wife Erica (nee Hallowes) lived in Portland, Oregon where he was president of the World Affairs Council, the English-Speaking Union and Willamette Writers.
He was a London correspondent for the Religion News Service, the West Indian Digest and Himmat and had articles published in dozens of papers around the world including the Jamaican Sunday Gleaner, the Japanese Mainichi Daily News, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, Canada’s Calgary Herald, and the Nigeria's The Guardian.
He is also the author of the autobiographical See You After the Duration – the Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II (2014).
A practising Anglican, and a supporter of the secular Forgiveness Project, he had a respectful regard for people of other faith and beliefs.