David Pocock: 'I’ve got a lot more comfortable just being a bit weird and different' | Emma Kemp

The retired Australian rugby great on his full-time move into conservation, where his love of nature came from, and being an introvertDavid Pocock is planning a dinner party. The guest list is already proving a toilsome task when he realises he is allowed to invite the dead along with the living. “How many people are we talking?” he ventures. “This could be epic.” After careful contemplation, he lands on Mahatma Gandhi. “Gandhi would be pretty weird to have there,” he tells Guardian Australia. “Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X.”Also present at the hypothetical soiree is American come…