Sad to say that the Iceland government has issued a one-year licence for whaling today – click here. It’s clear that the government has not gone as far as whaling interests would like, having taken a long time to make a decision, only issuing a one-year licence and limiting the number of Fin Whales…
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An afternoon in Geddington
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Geddington’s Green Fair, just a few miles away from home. I took some copies of Reflections and sold 10 of them – that was pretty good. I rarely go through Geddington but it is a pretty Northamptonshire village with a cricket pitch, village pub and church, stone cottages aplenty…
Dear Mr Reed, 1
Dear Steve Reed, just think, in a month’s time you may be in your second day in your new job as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. How will your first day in the job have gone? I’m a Labour Party member, living in the marginal seat of Corby in Northamptonshire, and…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 5 by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Press release Scottish Rewilding Alliance – Three-quarters of Scots want more beaver reintroductions
Three-quarters of Scots want more beaver reintroductions – but government agencies ‘go slow’ despite beaver deaths Three-quarters of Scots want Scotland’s public bodies to step up action on beaver reintroductions, shows research conducted for the Scottish Rewilding Alliance. But government agencies are not delivering on a Scottish Government call on them to lead in…