At yesterday evening’s Environmental Question time, the unelected Etonian, Rupert de Mauley was smooth, very smooth. Quite how he emerged relatively unscathed on this government’s dreadful environmental record is hard to figure. It was a mixture of partial admission of failure, partial avoidance of the question, partially making the most of a few potential successes…
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
Kiss me, Kate?
At yesterday evening’s Environmental Any Questions,the LibDems were represented not by either of their MPs who have been Defra ministers, and certainly not by Chris Huhne (remember him? He was a very good Climate Secretary despite everything else) but by the husky-voiced Baroness Parminter. Kate Parminter knows her stuff and was very impressive. A little…
Cash for questions time
At yesterday evening’s Environmental Any Questions, UKIP was represented by journalist William Cash, son of Bill Cash, former Tory MP. This must have been a tough gig for William but he didn’t flinch from putting us all straight on a few things: ‘the UKIP position on the EU is pretty clear’ – that was quite…
Environmental question time
Yesterday evening I attended an environmental question time organised by the Sibthorp Trust, British Ecological Society and CIEEM, and chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby. The panellists were Natalie Bennett (Green Party), William Cash (UKIP), Barry Gardiner MP (Labour), Lord (Rupert) de Mauley (Conservative Defra minister), Baroness Kate Parminter (Liberal Democrats, Environment Spokesperson) and Dr Eilidh Whiteford…
The first 21,000
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It’s taken quite a while (nearly three months) to add the latest 1,000 signatures to our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting but yesterday it passed 21,000 signatures and there are still three weeks to go. These e-petitions usually get a little bit of a boost as the deadline approaches so we’ll see… Thank you…