Still Fighting

This week is World Book Week, apparently, and Thursday is World Book Day, apparently. I guess the other weeks and the other days are World ‘let’s not read a thing’ Weeks and Days.  Still, it lets me remind you of some books, including this one of mine. I recently had a lovely email from someone…

Same old song

A reader of this blog was shocked, and somewhat horrified, to find this leaflet flutter out of his Farmers Guardian last week. He cancelled his subscription.   This would be an excellent leaflet to give to a mixed group of students – biology students and media studies students – and ask them to analyse it….

Four weeks to go

In the eight months since I launched an e-petition on the government website to ban driven grouse shooting I have become more and more convinced that it is the right thing to do – and even that it is inevitable. Standing just short of 21,000 signatures, this e-petition now has four weeks to gather a…

Guest blog – Food security by Roderick Leslie

Although I worked as a forester I actually studied Agricultural & Forest Science under the great agricultural educationalist Mike Soper. Even back in the 70s I remember the question ‘where does it all end?’ was being asked – the risks of flash-over resistance to antibiotics from pigs to humans as a result of them being…

Oscar Dewhurst – Fox

Oscar writes: this image is one from a project on Foxes a couple of years ago. I stumbled across them by chance more than anything, and over the next few months was able to build up a nice portfolio of images of them as they were very confiding. This was taken fairly early on. Nikon…