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Author Archives: Miles King
Coronavirus: an education paused.
My dad’s been on my mind. It’s coming up to ten years ago when he died, after a long and valiant fight against Leukaemia. His consultant was talking about a miracle, they’d never known someone of his age recover from … Continue reading
The Coronavirus Spring
I’ve held off writing anything about the Coronavirus crisis until now. This is partly down to having other stuff to do, and partly because things are moving so fast at the moment, it’s hard to see beyond the latest headline. … Continue reading
Another wildlife-rich grassland planted with trees
Following last week’s post about tree planting on a very species-rich grassland in Cumbria, organised by the Woodland Trust, I’ve been contacted with another story of a similar nature, in Cheshire. This time it’s a piece of lowland acid grassland … Continue reading
Posted in grasslands, semi-natural, tree planting, Woodland Trust
Tagged Grassland, Semi-Natural, tree planting, Woodland Trust
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Chronicle of a Grassland Saved
For those of us of a certain age, The Milky Bar Kid was part of our childhood. A boy, dressed as a cowboy, implored us to eat white chocolate – which was not particularly popular back then. By coincidence one … Continue reading
Is it racist to say Prince Albert was German?
Amid the fallout arising from the BBC’s decision to show some humorous clips from Horrible Histories on Brexit Day, I was called a racist. The clips included a song “British Things” about things the British thought (and still think) are … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Neil, Brexit, Britishness
Tagged Andrew Neil, British, British Things, Britishness, Horrible Histories, James Glancy
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Brexit, The Environment Bill and Local Wildlife Sites – a perfect storm?
On this supposed “Brexit Day” I’m not going to dwell on the Bongs, or the Flags, or the Farage’s. But one of the consequences of Brexit is that we have a new Environment Bill in Parliament. This is as a … Continue reading
Landed Gentry or Brexite – the choice to replace Mary Creagh at the Environmental Audit Committee
It’s Brexit week – well it’s not really but the symbolic moment has arrived when we move into the next phase of what will be a very long process – on Friday the transition period will begin – and nothing … Continue reading
A Green Future: 25 year plan launched (archived)
Note: for some reason I hadn’t saved this piece from Lush Times to this blog. It’s an old piece from 2 years ago. Michael Gove – the most energetic and intellectual Environment Secretary we have had for many years – … Continue reading
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2019…what a year.
This will be my last blog of 2019 as I intend to take a bit of a break from social media. But we’ll see how well that works out! I’m not going to go into any great depth about the … Continue reading
Happy 70th Birthday to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (and SSSIs)
While supporters of the Corbyn Project continue to search their souls for reasons why Labour now has the smallest number of MPs since before universal suffrage, I thought I would commemorate a small but significant anniversary – it’s 70 years … Continue reading
Posted in national parks and access to the countryside act, SSSis
Tagged Attlee Government, national Parks, SSSIs
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a new nature blog 