Donal MacIntyre

Journalist Donal MacIntyre tells Michael Deacon why he led one of the world’s most primitive tribes to an exotic and bemusing new land: Britain.

Chief Joseph, of Papua New Guinea’s Insect Tribe, looks appalled. It’s the first time he’s been to London (indeed, the first time he’s been outside his jungle village), and, until now, he’s coped well with Britain’s baffling abnormalities: water that comes from taps, toy dolls that talk, the “dark magic” of revolving doors.

But this afternoon’s trip to see Buckingham Palace has thrown up an outrage he won’t let pass.

“Why,” he frowns, “can I not go in to meet the Queen? I am a chief.”

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