This is the full response I have received from M&S this afternoon (at 15:58). ‘I’ve checked with the team and nothing has changed since we were last in contact. We are currently working with our supplier to monitor numbers for this season and will only sell grouse if the numbers are strong enough.’ M&S intend…
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 behaving very strangely and very badly
I’m losing confidence in M&S and I guess many of you are too. They are behaving in a very shifty manner – nothing like the openness I would hitherto have expected of them. Is M&S going to sell Red Grouse in any of its stores this year? It’s not a difficult question and it can…
53,000
Another thousand passed! I was on a grouse moor in Yorkshire with Chris Packham, in the Skipton and Ripon constituency actually, when I noticed we had passed this milestone and I texted the Moorland Association to ask whether they had yet found a landowner to represent their ‘sport’ at the Bird Fair. These are the…
No ammunition
You have to wonder whether the shooting community’s heart is in it. Maybe they are just about ready to concede defeat over driven grouse shooting. Maybe they’ve all secretly signed up to a ban on driven grouse shooting and will be happy to see the end of their pointless sport – if you agree with…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove You must be pleased that our constituency of Corby, the East Midlands, England, and the UK all voted for a Brexit. Personally, I was gutted by the result. I read your Westminster newsletter with interest and I must commend you on the way that you wrote about the result; very calm, very…