RSPB AGM

AGMs are often soul-less affairs – not so with that of the RSPB which was held yesterday in London’s QEII Conference Centre.  This day in the past was a working day for me, and quite a stressful one too, as the period in the morning where you have to think on your feet and answer…

Prof Sir John Lawton says…

…that the Chancellor, George Gideon Oliver Osborne, is a ‘bloody idiot’ on the subject of wildlife protection. Sir John, or actually, I see, John Hartley Lawton,  is a Vice President of the RSPB, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a good birdwatcher, was the last chair of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (deceased), is…