5000 blog posts

Since I started this blog in April 2011, 5002 posts have appeared here, attracting over 53,000 comments. That’s quite a lot. Thanks very much to all readers, commenters, photographers, artists and cartoonists. Later this year there will be a two-month break as I will be coming and going over that period, but I’ll let you…

Small steps

1. Early Day Motion 915 praising brood-meddling has not gathered any further support! In fact it is worse than that for its proposers, a Labour MP added his name and then removed it! So we see an EDM on the actions of NE and Defra whose only supporters are four DUP MPs and one SNP…

Politicians aren’t speechless – but aren’t saying much

David Davis made a speech the other day which was supposed to reassure somebody or other that we aren’t heading to a Mad Max future without laws and rules. Here’s the speech – very light, and very unreassuring, on environmental protection. Mr Davis passed the buck on the environment to Michael Gove with his ‘……

Wuthering moors (62) – this deep!

  Here are some images of the proposed path of the track across Walshaw Moor: all taken at the weekend by the wonderful Bob Berzins. Bob tells me ‘It is all deep peat up there and has a great wilderness feel. There is very little sign of vehicles being used so far. It would be…