Year: 2017
Good film
I wrote about this film back in May 2016 when I saw it at The Barbican. Quite a lot of it has stuck in my mind ever since. And now it is going on tour in the UK to: Nottingham tomorrow Sat 28 Oct, Oswestry Tues 31 Oct, Liverpool Sun 26 Nov, Aldeburgh Sun 3 Dec,…
Dr Coffey’s reading list (12)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it stands at over 9800) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. It looks to me as though ‘drafting a response’ will be in Dr Coffey’s civil…
Signs of progress
It’s sometimes difficult to tell how well the message that grouse moor management is environmentally unsustainable, economically harmful and in any case underpinned by wildlife crime is spreading. It also feels like there is a bit of a feeling of ‘ what’s the point?’ around the current e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. That’s a…
Local – bird records
This is just a short addendum to my blogs on a local planning matter which would involve building 10 intensive broiler houses on farmland about six miles from where I live (see my blogs here, here and here) and Tim Reed’s guest blog which was on the more general issues surrounding the quality of data…