• Migrants and the European Union: feedback from the Question Time
    I think it is fair to say that political hustings have become livelier since UKIP began to join panels about five years ago. Yesterday's event on the forthcoming European Parliamentary election was a...
  • Migrants and the European Union - a good topic for Question Time
    Tomorrow, the Wildlife Trusts, WWF and the RSPB are hosting a hustings event for the environment spokespeople of each of the major parties (Conservative, Green, Labour, Liberal Democrat and UKIP) running...
  • A comment on last night’s debate about the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
    The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill is currently in what’s known as “Committee stage” in the House of Commons. This is when MPs get to examine and debate the detail of the Bill. Yesterday, attention...
  • Northumberland: Exit, Pursued by a Peregrine
    Grey clouds tumbled through the North Tynedale site for much of last weekend and this week, but we did see a female and male hen harrier which was uplifting. The female bird swooped along the top of some...
  • Why close co-operation with the European Union is safer for nature
    Birds and other migratory wildlife do not respect borders, and the challenges facing nature are too big to be solved by any one country alone. Ever since tackling the global plumage trade in the nineteenth...