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New Board members for Natural England: the banker, the mandarin, the natural capitalist and the media exec.
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. Something natural perhaps. Hmm – perhaps a … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Capital, Natural England, regulation
Tagged Natural Capital, Natural England
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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 Cummings and his libertarian band … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, Dominic Cummings, free-loaders, libertarians
Tagged coronavirus, Dominic Cummings, free-loaders, libertarians, lockdown
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A few thoughts on how Coronavirus might reshape the UK
I’ve been putting off writing this blog, but after the weekend’s Cummings and Goings, there was a certain inevitability that it had to be written. The question I keep asking myself, as I am sure many of you are also … Continue reading
Guest Blog – Stop Graveney Marsh Solar Farm
As regular readers will know I take an interest in solar farms and their impact on wildlife. With this in mind, I’m happy to host a guest blog today from Matthew Hatchwell of the Faversham Society. Matthew was Director of … Continue reading
Posted in guest blogs, Solar Farms
Tagged Faversham Society, Graveney Marshes, Solar Farms, Wildlife
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Seven Years of a New Nature Blog
I’m celebrating the seventh anniversary of this blog today. Whoop! I actually started writing a blog nearly ten years ago, back in October 2010 when I was at The Grasslands Trust (you can still find them here ). After I … Continue reading
Reflections on VE Day 75
Lightnings and Vulcans Growing up under the only occasionally used flightpath to Buckingham Palace, every Queen’s Birthday, we would go up to The Green, just in time to see the flypast. I remember going with my dad, who had done … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, far right, Fascism, VE day
Tagged coronavirus, exceptionalism, the Blitz, VE day
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Coronavirus Diary; the Solace of Nature
When I went to let the chickens out first thing this morning, there it was, a familiar sound. No, it wasn’t yet another Blackcap pretending to be a Garden warbler. It was the drone. The hum, the incessant background noise. … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, covid-19, Nature, solace of nature, Uncategorized
Tagged bluebells, care homes, covid19, PPE, spring
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Coronavirus Diary: Performing Lockdown.
News that farmers and other landowners were starting to erect home made notices telling visitors using public rights of way that they were closed due to coronavirus naturally led to a sense of righteous indignation rising inside me, and I … Continue reading
Coronavirus diary: the Virus that did a no-deal Brexit on our food supply
It seems inconceivable that it was only a year ago (tomorrow) when the UK was due to crash out of the EU under a no deal Brexit. Thankfully that crisis was averted. Leading up to that momentous non-event, I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, coronavirus, Food, food security
Tagged coronavirus, food supply, no deal brexit, rationing
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Coronavirus diary: Libertarians, Pandemics and Populism
I had a bit of a cough yesterday. My wife and younger daughter had been ill the previous week with a typical winter bug. Was I fighting it off, or was it the beginnings of the dreaded coronavirus-19? Many thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, Dominic Cummings, populism
Tagged coronavirus, Dominic Cummings, libertarians, populism, Tufton Street
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