 Ford has been active in diplomacy and politics, travels extensively and acts as a conference speaker and lecturer.He has also written for "The Times", the "Daily Telegraph" and the "Evening Standard", also writing for journals including the "British Medical Journal", "Nature", and "Scientific American".As a student he had a weekly science column on the "South Wales Echo" and has since contributed columns for the "Mensa Magazine", "Boz" magazine, "The Listener" and "The Guardian".