Toby Ord is a university researcher earning not much more than the average salary. So why is he giving away £1m over his lifetime to help address global poverty?

“What’s really important in our lives is spending time together, chatting with our close friends and reading beautiful books and listening to beautiful music, and we’re really lucky to live in a beautiful place and there are lots of stimulating cultural activities around. With all that you can’t really ask for much more.”