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The Countryside Alliance boss, Tim Bonner, joins Chris Loder in the worst-judged recent tweet competition with this offering… … which suggests that my mate Chris Packham has broken the law by having a dead Badger temporarily in his possession. This isn’t misjudged simply because I don’t agree with it – there are plenty of clever…

I’ve been vaguely aware of this fairly local campaign (although Kettering seems a long way away from here in real life – try getting there by public transport!) for some time but now I’ve paid attention to it. Have a look at this video… … and see if you’d like to sign the petition –…

Dear Mr Pursglove, I’d like to bring to your attention the recent remarks of one of your fellow Conservative MPs, Chris Loder. When a White-tailed Eagle was found dead, suspected poisoned, in his Dorset constituency, Mr Loder went onto social media to say that he didn’t want eagles in his constituency, that they didn’t belong…

Losing what we love: England’s planning system is destroying nature piece by piece Between 2009 and 2020, local authorities in England published an average of 422,000 planning decisions per year, of which about 85% granted planning approval. Of the 98 Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects applications, only four have been refused and one partially refused. A…

I wrote a very short letter to my MP last week: it simply said Dear Mr Pursglove, I’m ashamed of the man who is our Prime Minister. Are you? And if not, why not, please? I had a 2-page response from Mr Pursglove yesterday, and fair enough, it’s a good response. It doesn’t actually answer…