Floods and land use

Although dominated by talk of whether the flood defences were expensive enough, high enough, built quickly enough or in the right places, there has been more discussion than usual about the role of land use and flooding in the media and on this blog.   In case you missed them, here is a list of…

Almost forgot

We passed 26,000 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting a few days ago. It is now much closer to 27,000 than 26,000. If we banned driven grouse shooting we would: have lower water bills have less climate change have less flooding have more wildlife have better blanket bogs have more Hen Harriers…

All in a name

It was almost bound to happen, and of course I had noticed the name of the winner of the 2:30 at Cheltenham before the race began. Although horses don’t know their names (or do they?), and you can call your horse Pegasus and it won’t necessarily fly home ahead of the others, it’s difficult not…