The Conservative manifesto promised that ‘Once EU law has been converted into domestic law, parliament will be able to pass legislation to amend, repeal or improve any piece of EU law it chooses‘. But they wouldn’t do that would they? The Conservatives wouldn’t start to dismantle the Birds Directive or the Habitats and Species Directive…
Year: 2017
Oscar Dewhurst – Hoopoe
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Oscar writes: Sorry for the lack of photos on here for the last 3 months – I’ve just finished my university finals so have been focused on those, but they finished a couple of weeks ago so I’ve got a while off until I start my Master’s in October so should have some time…
Sunday book review – Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Scientists tend to be pretty sniffy about economists: economics seems like the pseudo-science which explains anything after it happens and yet predicts nothing about to happen. So why would anyone want to think like an economist? And yet economics is about values and about what sort of world we want to live in – something…
Tim Melling – Rufous Hummingbird
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Tim writes: Rufous Hummingbirds are a western North American bird and breed further north than any other species of Hummingbird. This one is a male showing off his iridescent throat which is created by interference colours not pigment (like rainbows or oil in a puddle). I photographed him very early morning in a dark forest…