Coronavirus diary: the Freeloader Problem
It’s Magic Monday, or Happy Monday or whatever new slogan has been dreamt up by Dom Cummings and his Vote Leave team in Downing Street to distract us. How quickly things change. Just last December...
View ArticleNew Board members for Natural England: the banker, the mandarin, the natural...
An image speaks a thousand words, doesn’t it. Imagine being the person at Defra who decides which image to use for each story. “Natural England board members appointed.” Natural. England....
View ArticlePheasant’s or Pheasant’s-eye? Nature Connection and Conservation
Subterranean clover – diminutive and overlooked on an urban road verge ©Miles King What’s important about nature? I’m not talking about however many tonnes of Carbon a Sitka spruce tree locks up during...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Speeches – Gramsci, Newts and the Instrumentarians
Gove references the Italian marxist Gramsci at the beginning of his speech As we finally reach the point where the first wave of covid19 has effectively passed (excess deaths in the week to the 19th...
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