At yesterday evening’s Environmental Question Time, as well as Kate Parminter, William Cash and Rupert de Mauley, there was also Barry Gardiner, Eilidh Whiteford and Natalie Bennett. Natalie Bennett, performed well: supports a nature and Well-being Bill would reform the CAP would repeal bad bits of NPPF is against fracking realises we need to tackle…
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Smooth, very smooth
At yesterday evening’s Environmental Question time, the unelected Etonian, Rupert de Mauley was smooth, very smooth. Quite how he emerged relatively unscathed on this government’s dreadful environmental record is hard to figure. It was a mixture of partial admission of failure, partial avoidance of the question, partially making the most of a few potential successes…
Kiss me, Kate?
At yesterday evening’s Environmental Any Questions,the LibDems were represented not by either of their MPs who have been Defra ministers, and certainly not by Chris Huhne (remember him? He was a very good Climate Secretary despite everything else) but by the husky-voiced Baroness Parminter. Kate Parminter knows her stuff and was very impressive. A little…
Cash for questions time
At yesterday evening’s Environmental Any Questions, UKIP was represented by journalist William Cash, son of Bill Cash, former Tory MP. This must have been a tough gig for William but he didn’t flinch from putting us all straight on a few things: ‘the UKIP position on the EU is pretty clear’ – that was quite…
Environmental question time
Yesterday evening I attended an environmental question time organised by the Sibthorp Trust, British Ecological Society and CIEEM, and chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby. The panellists were Natalie Bennett (Green Party), William Cash (UKIP), Barry Gardiner MP (Labour), Lord (Rupert) de Mauley (Conservative Defra minister), Baroness Kate Parminter (Liberal Democrats, Environment Spokesperson) and Dr Eilidh Whiteford…
The first 21,000
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It’s taken quite a while (nearly three months) to add the latest 1,000 signatures to our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting but yesterday it passed 21,000 signatures and there are still three weeks to go. These e-petitions usually get a little bit of a boost as the deadline approaches so we’ll see… Thank you…
What’s the time? #timetoact
I was at the climate march in London on Saturday. It was fun like all marches are. I saw a few friends – which was good too. Here are some more photographs. What’s the time? Time to change!
Oscar Dewhurst – Cormorant
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Oscar writes: Last winter I spent several days photographing Cormorants in the centre of London at a spot where they would fish throughout the day. The picture I really wanted to get was one where a bird had a fish in its beak. It was harder than it sounds, however, as within a…
Sunday book review – Cuckoo by Nick Davies
Nick Davies is a top-scientist (he is a Fellow of the Royal Society), and a birder, and he was the external examiner for my PhD. So, he’s quite a guy. I remember once walking down Tennis Court Road in Cambridge, heading to see a flock of Waxwings which were reported to be nearby. I encountered…