We need to think about Giles

Giles Bradshaw has commented on this blog over 600 times and many of those comments have been on the subject of the Hunting Act – a subject on which I don’t recall ever writing a blog (although you can find a comment on it in Inglorious pp106-07).   A long time ago, I did publish a…

Splat!

A long time ago, the RSPB tried to persuade car drivers, lorry drivers etc to put a square patch of plastic on the front of their cars and send it in to us to assess the number of splatted insects on it. The ‘splatometer’ was a one-summer wonder but sometimes I wish we had persevered…

The environmental case for Brexit?

I asked my MP, a leading member of the Vote Leave group, to point me in the direction of a well-argued environmental case for voting for exit from the EU. Mr Pursglove was kind enough to point me in the direction of the Briefing Room on the Vote Leave website. Is that it?  Really? In…