Guest Blog – silence of the guns by Rob Yorke

Rob Yorke (@blackgull) is a hunter naturalist and rural commentator based in the Black Mountains of South Wales. He carries, at times, both a gun and binoculars and outlines below a possible scenario set in northern England after a ban on driven grouse shooting has been in force for a number of years. The characters…

To all green blobs out there

It’s two and a half weeks since Owen Paterson went out with a rant about the Green Blob. It was a fairly remarkable outburst at the time and re-reading it hardly lessens the impact. Paterson’s hatred, for so it seems, for those who devote their lives to the environment is quite shocking.  It’s also shocking…

Hen Harrier Day

I apologise for the late posting of this little note but I have been collecting my Hen Harrier Day T-shirt. This time next week it will all be over. We’ll be becalmed in the day between ‘Hen Harrier Day’ and the ‘Inglorious 12th’. I have bought and tested a megaphone – it works! There aren’t…