Tag: keir-starmer
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British Wildlife magazine April 2025, Swift Bricks & the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Volume 36, Number 5 Galloway National Park? The myth that our national parks are currently of any benefit in terms of wildlife and conservation have long been busted wide open. Ian Carter writes about the proposal for a new park in Galloway, Scotland. It’s a crucible. Will it be like the ones we already have,…
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Being a gosling chauffeur; Tumuli and White Horses; Birdwatch magazine and Lucky Dube vs Keir Starmer
I have wanted to visit Swan Lifeline for a long time. On Saturday the perfect opportunity presented itself: a Canadian Gosling needed to be taken there from HART Wildlife Rescue, otherwise there would be just one lonely recuperating gosling at each rescue. The one pictured above was a HART rescue from a couple of years…
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Church & State
I have been procrastinating with this post – it is a huge subject and not always easy to write about (nor read – I am not pulling my punches here, supporters of the church and royalists might want to look away). It is a summary of much that I have said before, but I do…
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Starmer, farmers, foxes, badgers, salmon and more
Sounding and feeling a little like a Roman Catholic penitent at confession, it has been two weeks since my last post. It has been a busy time – my son turned 18 and so there was much celebration, I travelled to the hugely disappointing Spurn Migration Festival near Hull, of which more in a separate…
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How They Broke Britain Part III
How they Broke Britain by James O’Brien, WH Allen, 2023 The chapters on Cameron and Corbyn are the least interesting so far because they are the least interesting, least Machiavellian characters. Cameron is simply a product of his education and the milieu in which he grew up. The private school system produces emotionally stunted people…