This year the Game Fair is in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. The Game Fair could keep a blogger going for full year, but let me tell you about some sensible people I met today. Today, Saturday, is ‘Conservation’ Saturday apparently. I noticed that there was a talk about rivers but it was as much…
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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The latest in the excellent series of BAWC podcasts – this one by Terry Pickford. ‘In 1974 we had 39 breeding females…every single estate had hen harriers…but many of them were interfered with’ ‘It changed about 1980’ ‘Derek Ratcliffe was asked the reason why there had been such a calamitous collapse in Hen Harriers…
It’s the society stupid!
Last week I was early, I’m always early, for my interview with Martha Kearney on the World at One and so I watched a protest march set off from outside the BBC near Oxford Circus. There were firefighters and teachers from the NUT. I recognised the strains of Billy Bragg’s rendition of The Internationale playing…
Looking forward to being at the Game Fair at the weekend
e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Hen Harrier Day with Chris Packham. A grouse with M&S and more in today’s Telegraph City Diary Lead poisons children.