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James Hansen makes good points here but I think he’s wrong to think that the UK government, this government, or its Prime Minister, will feel humiliated by … well, actually, by almost anything. We seem now to live in a world where many politicians feel no shame about acting in contradiction to their words, or…

The Parallel Parliament website looks very useful – I’ve only just found it. You can find information about departments – such as DEFRA; … MPs and peers, Here’s my MP; … and up to date information on petitions, such as this one on Badgers; This petition information is right up to date (except the only…

Yesterday this blog passed another milestone – 8 million pageviews since 21 April 2011. That first post was unexceptional, but one has to start somewhere, and its title, Don’t let them get away with it, might well have become a watchword for this blog. It took me couple of months before I got Google Analytics…

RSPB Chief Exec Beccy Speight says: This inquiry has laid bare the urgent need for Government to get a grip on the nature crisis. Ten years after pledging to ‘improve the natural environment within a generation’ the reality is that 15 per cent of the UK’s wildlife is at risk of extinction. Positive words and…

An immature White-tailed Eagle from the Isle of Wight reintroduction project has spent a few daysin Northants recently, at Pitsford Reservoir, before continuing its wanderings southwards into Oxfordshire and maybe back to its release site on the IoW. Here in Northants we don’t really consider ourselves to be within striking distance of ther IoW but…