In a long rant the Countryside Alliance shows just how rattled it is by the challenges to driven grouse shooting. It’s all the usual stuff, in fact it’s quite a useful refresher course in the Alliance’s lack of solid arguments on the subject. But it’s interesting to think about why the grouse shooting folk have…
Year: 2017
Another review of Remarkable Birds
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Reviews seem to be like buses – two have come along together. Jeremy Mynott in the Times Literary Supplement reviews Remarkable Birds and The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes. Here are some of the nice things he says about Remarkable Birds: ‘Packed with all manner of interesting facts, expertly presented and all tending to…
UK Hen Harrier survey results – what they say (5)
Hanky for Mr Stokes!
Tweet, tweet
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On p274 of Inglorious I pointed out that the grouse shooters are rather outgunned on social media, and I also wrote that it might not last that long. Well, I think both remarks are still true. Of course, there are many more, relevant Twitter accounts than just these seven, many people never go near Twitter…
Bl**dy Badgers!
I was on an authors’ panel at a National Badger Week event in Wytham Wood on Tuesday evening. It was great fun – apart from the Badgers. We were chaired and facilitated by Charlie Moores (leftmost), and we were Dom Dyer, Hugh Warwick, Caspar Henderson and myself. We chatted about writing, about nature and…