Do you have a newsletter that would publish an article on driven grouse shooting before 20 September? Perhaps a Bird Club? A Natural History Society? A WI group? Whatever… I’d be happy to provide something in order to spread the word. What I need from you is: a deadline a word limit information about the…
Category: Inglorious
Looking forward to be at Housmans tomorrow evening
Housmans Bookshop describes itself as London’s premier radical bookshop and so I’m expecting to feel at home when I talk there tomorrow evening about why we should ban driven grouse shooting. 7pm, 5 Caledonian Road and entrance is £3 (redeemable against any purchases). And maybe we’ll get some new signatures on our e-petition to ban…
Very pleased to be second
I’ve got a lovely certificate to hang on the office wall: Inglorious was the second choice in the BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year for 2015. Woohoo! I notice that the judges say ‘Not all will agree with the conclusion…’, although my thought is ‘give it time and they will!’, but I was, of…
Review of Inglorious from the USA
I’ve had a few conversations with American friends about grouse shooting and several have started with the American being sympathetic to grouse ‘hunting’ and them ending up saying ‘but that’s not hunting at all’. Correct! Driven grouse shooting is the most unsporting of sports and is akin to a computer game where one blasts away…
Looking forward to talking!
I have a few gigs on over the next couple of weeks; On Wednesday (20 Jan) I am talking to what will probably be mostly a bunch of undergraduates in Cambridge – the Cambridge Nature Society – in the new David Attenborough Building, Room 1.25 A+B at 7pm (about life in general and driven grouse…