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This. Is. A. Disgrace.

Friday's "mini budget" has been condemned in some quarters as a reckless, incompetently executed and morally repugnant exercise based on a failed economic theory. You might think that; I couldn't possibly...

This. Is. A. Disgrace.

Friday's "mini budget" has been condemned in some quarters as a reckless, incompetently executed and morally repugnant exercise based on a failed economic theory. You might think that; I couldn't possibly...

Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat

Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat

Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - record high temperatures after months...

Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat

Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - record high temperatures after months...

A Little Politics

A Little Politics

It's bizarre that as we experience at least a week of really extreme temperatures, neither climate change nor biodiversity loss have yet to feature at all in the Conservative Party's latest...

A Little Politics

It's bizarre that as we experience at least a week of really extreme temperatures, neither climate change nor biodiversity loss have yet to feature at all in the Conservative Party's latest...

The Squeeky Wheel

The Squeeky Wheel

I've found it very difficult to post anything recently. Horticultural topics seem trivial, environmental and political issues depressingly repetitive, and echo chamber outrage relating to them shrill and predictable. We...

The Squeeky Wheel

I've found it very difficult to post anything recently. Horticultural topics seem trivial, environmental and political issues depressingly repetitive, and echo chamber outrage relating to them shrill and predictable. We...

No Time For Party Politics

No Time For Party Politics

The Environment Bill is in the very last stages of a long and painful labour. Its final amendments - including on the independence of the new environment regulator - have...

No Time For Party Politics

The Environment Bill is in the very last stages of a long and painful labour. Its final amendments - including on the independence of the new environment regulator - have...

Kicking Up a Stink

Kicking Up a Stink

Back in May I wrote a blog about 7 causes we could all get behind, which I thought were relatively easy wins. One of them was cleaning up our rivers. ...

Kicking Up a Stink

Back in May I wrote a blog about 7 causes we could all get behind, which I thought were relatively easy wins. One of them was cleaning up our rivers. ...