I had thought that I would be on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning - but experience shows that you can't count a Today Prog interview until it's broadcast. The democratic future of the people of Egypt really is more important than whether we get a Forest and Wildlife Service which can deliver a better future for our forests. But I will come back to that idea on Monday. And just in passing, I wonder what Mubarak would have thought of the Public Bodies Bill?
Yesterday there was quite a lot of pick up on yesterday's blog about the fact that we don't think that charities would find it easy to pick up management of the New Forest - and that the RSPB isn't volunteering to do it.. This blog was picked up by the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star, BBC online and a large number of regional newspapers.
And yesterday's announcement on a delay to forest sales is in the Guardian, BBC online, the Mirror and elsewhere.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
I can see a problem with privatising Forestry Commission land. There are numerous organisations which can manage Wildlife Trusts but will commercial enterprises let them and will anyone be interested in the wild life or access to the forestry commission land once it is in private hands .
This government could be seriously under estimating the value of a walk in a wood.
DC