Just a reminder that the deadline for this blog’s writing competition is midnight on Saturday. I haven’t read any of the entries so far so I cannot even hint at the quality of the 18 entries. I can say that of the four categories, one currently has just a single entry whereas another already has…
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Sunday book review – Badgered to Death by Dominic Dyer
I enjoyed reading this book and I strongly recommend it to you. This is a powerful and stimulating read and it’s bang up to date with the important issue it discusses. It is written by a passionate insider with years of experience. The narrative is pacey and exciting. This book arrived with me on Thursday…
Biofuels – let’s dump them
The idea that up to 7% of the fuel you put in your vehicle could come from food crops – not waste but actual food crops – is obscene in a world where people are starving. It’s even more obscene where the calculations show that (for various reasons which I won’t go into now) this…
Climate change – what you think
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Readers of this blog are pretty convinced that climate change is happening (graph above), that it is caused by human activities (graph below)… …that it is a problem for us (below)… …but less confident that we can do much about it (below)… This is not surprising.
Round up
A few things that have caught my eye: remember microbeads? – Defra minister says UK supports a ban another dead Red Kite found dead in Yorkshire near Blubberhouses – this one was shot Craig Bennett, FoE, on why Brexiteers don’t want to talk about the environment please sign this e-petition to call on Norway…
Mini round up
I’ve been away for a few days and I’d love you to guess where I’ve been. A mini-round-up: worrying signs on the West Pennine Moors that development is planned (more on this later) a month ago, and 7000 signatures ago, I posted this and tomorrow morning the RSPB will reply here M&S are not responding…
Travels and round-up
I’ve been travelling around since Monday and I got back late last night – so this is just a few notes on my travels and a few catch-ups: On the Durham moors near the signpost above, there were very few waders to be heard, which surprised me, as I am always careful to point out…
Bit of a round up
I’ll be at Housmans bookshop this evening at 7pm Fineshade Wood features in this week’s Private Eye the NFU voted to be pro Remain in the EU referendum the Defra Press Office has not got back to me with an answer on whether ministers sign off responses to e-petitions my MP has not yet got…
Poll closes at 6pm
My poll for the best and worst Defra Secretary of State closes at 6pm so if you haven’t voted yet you need to get a move on! Click here.
A bit of a round up
five MPs were treated to a day’s shooting by BASC, to the value of £772 each. The five MPs were the chair of the all-party shooting and conservation (ho! ho!) group, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP (Con, Cotswolds), Bill Wiggin MP (Con, North Herefordshire), Sir Edward Garnier (Con, Harborough, former Solicitor General), Graham Brady MP (Con, Altrincham…