Full details of the North of England Raptor Forum Hen Harrier Day event – a catchily-titled Raptor Persecution Awareness Open-Day – are now published. There is no need to get a ticket and no need to book – so just come along between 10am and 2pm on Saturday 11 August. That’s probably where I’ll…
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Quatorze et quinze juillet?
Ralph Underhill is on holiday. It’s a good job that none of us is the least bit interested in football isn’t it? When France win tomorrow maybe that nice M. Macron will announce that the quinze juillet will forever more be fused with the quatorze juillet to form a deux-jours holiday. At least we (some…
Now, don’t lose your rag over this, please.
That there is a link between lead exposure and violent crime has been known for quite a l0ng time, and is the subject of some quite extraordinary correlations between removal of lead from petrol and reduction in violent crime rates across the globe, backed up by plenty of studies that illuminate the potential causal links….
Northern Harriers
It was, perhaps appropriately enough, soon after I passed through Bird City, Cheyenne County, Kansas that I saw my first Northern Harrier on my recent visit to the USA. After that they were an almost daily presence which made me think of Hen Harrier issues back home frequently. Until recently this was regarded as a…
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Green Day’s 2004 song, American Idiot, has hit the UK charts to coincide with Trump’s visit to the UK. You may be surprised to hear, but maybe not, that I am quite a fan of Green Day.