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I bet you immediately knew where the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland is didn’t you? It’s where we might build a UK space port.  It is described as a remote boggy stretch of land by the BBC, The site may initially host rocket and satellite launches but commercial passenger travel could then follow according to the…

My column, Naturally Opinionated, in the August British Wildlife is about National Parks. It should drop through your letterboxes around 18 August – subscribe here. More on this subject when the magazine is out.

Ralph Underhill is on holiday. It’s a good job that none of us is the least bit interested in football isn’t it? When France win tomorrow maybe that nice M. Macron will announce that the quinze juillet will forever more be fused with the quatorze juillet to form a deux-jours holiday. At least we (some…

Green Day’s 2004 song, American Idiot, has hit the UK charts to coincide with Trump’s visit to the UK.  You may be surprised to hear, but maybe not, that I am quite a fan of Green Day.        

Meadowsweet is one of the plants that Plantlife says we can pick! It’s in the Plantlife Pickable 12. This must be a common plant because it is another one that I can actually identify! And this is the time to see it – there was plenty in the boggier bits of Perth and Kinross on…

Ralph Underhill is on holiday. We should beat Sweden today, and we could beat Sweden today but it would be a rash person who assumed that we will beat Sweden today. The Betfair odds are that England are even money to win (in 90 mins), Sweden 3.8/1 and the draw is 2.35/1.  The best looking…

The Cabinet meets today on an away-day to iron out the last few wrinkles in the UK’s Brexit programme. All that needs to be resolved is that they decide what sort of Brexit we want and what might be remotely achievable. What could go wrong? By the end of today we will either be seeing…

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