Category: Tangled bank

I don’t think that nature conservation, as a movement, comes out of 2020 very well. The economic challenges should have brought home to many nature conservation organisations that they have morphed too much into being part of the entertainment industry in recent years and have loosened their nature conservation and environmental roots. When it came…

At yesterday’s RSPB AGM, Kevin Cox, the Chair of Council made the following announcement; There is growing concern about the environmental impact (including for carbon, water and biodiversity) of intensive forms of game bird shooting and associated land management practices.  This includes both driven grouse moor management (which involves shooting our native red grouse) and…

I was listening to Today this morning to hear John Humphrys’s last programme (and rather moving it was too) and so i caught an interview between JH and the new Woodland Trust CEO, my former colleague Darren Moorcroft. Congratulations to Darren – I wish him every success. But it got me thinking about all the…

The gender pay gap is a very blunt measure of anything – because it does not measure whether both (or more) genders get paid the same amount for the same job. But the data are out there. This is what I’ve discovered so far (data rounded to nearest whole number):   If you’d like me…

The disclosure of the salaries of some, not all, of the BBC’s ‘talent’ hit the headlines yesterday – we’re all interested in how underpaid we are and how overpaid ‘they’ are. Before the news came out, I thought about it a little, and I was expecting John Humphrys’s salary to be somewhere between £200k and…