Given the date, and the fact that I visited New York City, including Ground Zero, in late May, I am just going to re-post three blogs from my time there. The living and the dead 19 May Birding with the Empire State Building as background 20 May Liberty and the pursuit of happiness 21…
Category: Uncategorized
Do you trust them?
It’s all getting quite heated out there. And so it should – although it always looks bad if the government Ministers are the ones losing their tempers whilst the environmental campaigners are cool, calm and collected. But it’s not surprising, because the government is in a worse place over planning reform than it was over…
An interesting event – of some significance?
Those readers of this blog who are also signed up to my monthly newsblast will have read that I have quite kind thoughts about the content of the England Biodiversity Strategy – except that there may be too little money to implement it. But I noticed that a group of wildlife NGOs – the RSPB,…
Rating your science
As a BTO member I recently got an email full of interesting information about that excellent organisation and including a link on the differences between the BTO and the RSPB. The impression you might get from this is that the BTO does the science and the RSPB uses the BTO’s science to change the world. …
All at sea over planning
Today you get two blogs for the price of none – this one’s about planning, the other is about being at sea (or they might both be about being at sea…) Government is talking tough about its contentious proposals for changing the planning system. In a joint article in yesterday’s Financial Times, the Communities and…