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I’ve enjoyed today’s Inglorious 12th more than most. I’ve had a relatively relaxing day. When I watered the vegetables at 6am this morning before making a cup of tea, I had seen the expected news that Labour had come out in favour of licensing grouse shooting. This is very much to be welcomed. Looking back…

With today’s call for grouse moor licensing by the Labour Party the SNP needs to act to maintain its formerly leading position on grouse moor reform. In the race to be ‘top UK government’ on grouse shooting reform the SNP government is strolling down the straight, way out ahead of the Conservative Party in England…

On the Inglorious 12th, the opening day of the Red Grouse shooting season, Luke Pollard, shadow DEFRA Secretary said: The government has failed to cut wildlife crime and a decade of austerity has left these birds [protected raptors] vulnerable to poaching, with fewer police preventing poaching and fewer officers able to catch those responsible. We…

Tomorrow is the Inglorious 12th – the traditional start of the grouse shooting season. There couldn’t be a better day to sign our e-action calling for change on the moors – click here to have a look. Many thanks! Over 24,000 e-actions so far (since Saturday).

I’m sure that Nicola Sturgeon hasn’t personally read my email to her about the poisoned White-tailed Eagle found in the Cairngorms National Park (on a grouse moor) but if she had, I bet the bit that would have stuck in her mind would be the analogy that the shooting industry is showing her and the…