There is a very good article in today’s Times by Ben Webster with the headline ‘Lead ammunition to stay despite poisoning danger‘. Liz Truss, perhaps as one of her last acts, and indeed one of her first (as the least effective Environment Secretary ever), announced that people shooting birds for fun would not be required…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
M&S in the news for planning to sell high-lead grouse meat
Chris Packham’s video which asks M&S not to sell grouse meat shot with lead in their stores, stating that he will boycott M&S if they do, and asking people to sign the petition to ban driven grouse shooting, has made the news. Perhaps for readers of this blog, the most interesting piece of the…
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56,000 signatures to get a debate in parliament ton the future of grouse shooting! We are on a roll! Brighton Pavilion joins the ‘200 club’. And the following join the ‘100 club’: Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Nick Gibb MP Mid Derbyshire Pauline Latham MP Dover Charlie Elphicke MP Cheltenham Alex Chalk MP Buckingham John Bercow…
Truss knifes LAG report
Letter from Liz Truss to John Swift More on this tomorrow morning – when perhaps Liz Truss will be in a new job.
M&S – loss of trust
The handling of their grouse issue by M&S has been shabby – not what many of us would have expected from a formerly trusted store. Why do I say formerly trusted? Because I don’t trust them any more. Here’s why. M&S have not come clean on what they, and only they, describe as their industry-leading…