Fizz! Cheers M&S!!

Well, sometimes you need to celebrate, don’t you. And although I would normally go up market from this I did want to spend my money with M&S to mark their sensible change of mind over selling grouse meat in their stores this year. Although M&S do sell champagne in their stores, my local outlet doesn’t…

Letter to my MP

Dear Mr Pursglove Do you remember that e-petition on the parliament website which I have mentioned before? My e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting? Well, it has recently passed 100,000 signatures (with five weeks to go) and so it will be considered by the Petitions Committee on 6 September and is very likely to be…

Great effort!

One man’s leafletting has made the formerly rather underperforming constituency of Warwick and Leamington stand out from the Midland crowd in terms of signatures for our petition to ban driven grouse shooting.. I won’t embarrass him by naming him here but I have thanked him personally. And he’ll be at the Bird Fair this weekend…

And from George Monbiot…

In today’s Guardian, from George Monbiot: The grouse shooters aim to kill: the first casualty is the truth Crispin Odey, Ian Botham, the Daily Telegraph, Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail, Jonny Scott, Ian Gregory, YFTB, Richard Benyon and David Cameron – all in one article. Please remember to ask your friends to sign the e-petition…

Advance warning

I wrote to the HoC Petitions Committee to find out as much as I could about when our expected debate might take place.  Here is their (very rapid) reply:             Dr Avery, Thank you for your message. We are always here, even in the depths of August! The petition will…