This is the first of a series of blogs to help you to help Hen Harriers and the upland environment by increasing the pressure on the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting. This suggestion depends on you having a Twitter account. If you don’t, then maybe you should consider getting one, but there will…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove I am a constituent of yours and, although it is extremely unlikely that I will ever vote for you, I would like to wish you well during your period as an MP. Being an MP is a great opportunity and also a great responsibility. I hope that your stay in the House…
15,000 signatures in 45 days
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting yesterday passed the 15,000 signature barrier (on Day 45). That’s a signature every four and a half minutes, day and night for just over 6 weeks. Pretty good. Thank you to all who have signed, and also to those who have promoted the e-petition to their bird clubs,…
Happy publisher and a question for you.
I saw my commissioning editor at Bloomsbury, Jim Martin, last week. He seems delighted with me – he even bought me a cup of coffee! Inglorious must be selling well! We talked about the paperback which will come out next July and will include a brief update on this year, 2015. But, sensing that Jim…
Ilkley Literary Festival – 10 October
I’ll be chatting about driven grouse shooting at the Ilkley Literary festival on Saturday 10 October. It would be good to see a few friendly faces as I venture into grouse shooting country. This does mean that I will miss the RSPB AGM on the same day in London (for the first time for well…