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National Trust acquires vital new stretch of coastal land to help create a new home for nature Former golf course will help conservation charity create new 30 hectare coastal nature reserve National Trust and partners will start work once restrictions due to Covid-19 are lifted Sand dunes and wetland habitats will be restored to help…

Guy writes: a couple of weeks ago Mark posted an image of a Mountain Gorilla I had taken during a recent trip to Uganda.  In the current lockdown, such things now seem particularly distant.  On the same trip I was lucky enough to see chimpanzees on three occasions.  Twice on organised trips with habituated troops,…

Hail to the Skylark – one of the finest songsters of all? Don’t you agree? You won’t find this species very often in your garden but if you live near farmland you may hear its song cascading over everything. This is a pretty unmistakable song – it goes on for ages, it’s loud, it’s musical…

I know how some in the shooting industry like to make out that I am coining it in from writing Inglorious and that I’m just in it for the money. So wrong! Here is my latest royalty statement from Bloomsbury as far as it applies to Inglorious. Lots of numbers but if you were to…

I was listening to George Osborne on The World This Weekend yesterday and heard him say (15m 43s into programme) that his personal opinion was that the current government had got off ‘to a bit of a slow start’ in dealing with coronavirus. I think that is what everybody probably thinks. And in times of…