Ralph Underhill cartoon – Sacred?

  You do have to wonder where on Earth, or even in the EU, the CAP gets a good press.  Here is a round-up of UK views: IEEP – Environment undermined in CAP deal CAPreform.eu – a damp squib for CAP reform which does nothing to shift towards ‘public money for public goods’ The Wildlife…

well done rspb

the rspb has a new logo – have you noticed it on the rspb website? it’s been long-heralded and it has finally arrived and it’s…well it’s…almost exactly the same as the old one. the main change is that the letters, r, s, p and b, are now in lower case.  that’s very trendy.  i like…

It made me smile anyway…

I don’t know much about art but I know what I like – and I like giant hen harriers crushing rangerovers. Did you see this – it happened over a month ago while I was in upper New York state. Well, it made me smile anyway. Other coverage: more Guardian, BBC, dazeddigital, London Evening Standard….

BBS

I got up early on Sunday morning in order to do the last visits to my two BBS squares.  The Rolling Stones had kept me up the night before which was a bit mean of them – at their age they should know better. It’s a whitethroat year for sure – there weren’t many warblers…