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Our strong British food brand is built on the high standards to which we hold ourselves. We can maintain and indeed enhance UK standards as we negotiate new trading relationships with friends and neighbours in the EU and leading global economies. Theresa Villiers at the Oxford Farming Conference as reported in the Guardian. Note the…

There’s not much doubt that the RSPB’s magazine comes wrapped in a compostable wrapper. Apart from the ghastly name there are quite a lot of odd things about the magazine – how many can you spot? I’ve seen complaints on Twitter about the amount of advertising of overseas holidays in the magazine. That is a…

I haven’t delved into Bird Study yet as I was distracted by its wrapper. It’s so unusual for a magazine to arrive chez moi apparently wrapped in plastic that I have been scouring the wrapper, the journal and the bit of paper inside the wrapper to find something telling me that it’s all recyclable really….

My views on HS2 have changed over time. I started being philosophically in favour (infrastructure improvement, investment during a time of austerity, linking the country, trains) but thinking that it would probably never happen, and then, as I learned more about it, to being practically against (overpriced for the returns, unnecessarily damaging route) but thinking…

This looked like potentially good news and if there is some truth in it then it represents a rather rapid victory for Mary Colwell’s campaign. On this blog Mary has written about her ideas a few times, starting with A Natural History GCSE in 23 November 2012, and then Natural History GCSE (2) in October…

Moors for the Future is a partnership between Peak District National Park, Environment Agency, National Trust, Pennine Prospects, RSPB, United Utilities and Yorkshire Water.

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Yes, practical steps are great but political ones are the kind that actually make a difference. That was a quote from a few days ago and from a very thoughtful comment on this blog by Stuart MacKay. The comment was thoughtful but I think this phrase was … well … wrong actually. But it does…

This time last year this was what I resolved; You can decide for yourselves how I did but the fact that you are reading these words might mean that you are still giving me a chance. My own assessment would be I have stood up for nature, I have not been too gratuitously nasty, I…

The Conservative party won a crucial general election with a slogan, and a manifesto woefully short of environmental policy. This was because the electorate vote with their hearts not their heads and Labour had not given enough people an emotional reason to vote for change. But the slogan will prove to be false and the…