It was on this day in 1918 that the Representation of the People Act received Royal Assent. This act, sometimes called the Fourth Reform Act, followed the previous three in 1832, 1867 and 1884. The Great Reform Act 1832 allowed male rural landowners, shopkeepers and those paying rent of over £10 per annum to vote….
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Two tales from the Sussex woods
Ahead of speaking at the Sussex Ornithological Society conference on Saturday I stayed in a B&B nearby on Friday night. It was quite a posh B&B , and very nice, but hard to find. Well, it wasn’t the B&B’s fault that it was hard to find, I think that was partly my fault and partly…
True, very true.
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The North York Moors National Park has a blog – hooray! It’s an official blog – hooray! Put ‘hen harrier’ into the search engine and you get the very honest return of… No – nothing to see here. Nada! Zilch! Bugger all! Please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting and…
Ed Hutchings launches thunderclap to spread the word on licensing.
Little more than an hour ago Ed Hutchings launched a thunderclap to gather support for licensing of driven grouse shooting. Well done Ed! I look forward to seeing every RSPB social media account signing up to this with enthusiasm. I wonder how many supporters it will have by the end of the day? Let one…
Apologies
Both Ralph’s and Paul’s cartoons are delayed due to Mark being in an attractive part of Sussex (although it is dark as I write this) which is so attractive that there is no WiFi and no phone signal.
Nottingham
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I’m heading up the railway line to Nottingham today to an event for young people organised by the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Of course I’m looking forward to it. Here is a link to the Nottingham for Nature manifesto that has been produced by young people in the city. Looks pretty good to me.
The 25 year strategy
The government 25-year plan for the environment is a significant document. It covers most of the correct ground and says many good things. The proof of it, as noted by many others, will be in the extent to which it is delivered, but in six months Michael Gove has moved the Conservative Party quite some…
Well done Private Eye!
I’m looking very carefully at magazine wrappers that come through my letter box these days. I’m impressed (easily!) that Private Eye thinks that my copy is urgent but even more so by the very clear statement of the fact that this wrapper is recyclable and where it can be recycled (and has the logo to…
Yesterday
Yesterday: 1. I went for a walk: gosh it was cold! I went somewhere where a drake Smew had recently been seen, and the weather seemed perfect for a snow-white duck from the far north, but I didn’t see one. I did see a pair of Goosander and lots of other ducks but I actually…
Plastic wrappings
This is today’s third blog about the RSPB. First we had a good piece of research, then their cogitations on doing the right thing and now a confusing question about packaging of the magazine, Nature’s Home. When I came home from seeing Hawfinches yesterday there were two magazines waiting for me, Nature’s Home and Private…