Why and how we came to use guns
Where did humans discover their unhealthy interest in guns? My dad explains… which poses a question: should we, therefore, fear squirrels?
Charlie Jacoby
I run Fieldsports Channel and have been a countryside writer and broadcaster for more than 30 years.
What are we to expect for our wildlife from this government?
Fieldsports, along with Israel and private schools, are red meat for the rabble of Labour backbenchers. As a public-school-educated trophy-hunter with a Jewish surname, I'm off to an internment camp.
Government plan to ‘re-sea’ North Somerset
For rewilding on steroids, look at Somerset. The government believes that nuclear power station Hinkley Point will kill 800 acres of fish. It wants owner EDF to offset that by flooding 800 acres of land with sea water. It wants EDF to re-sea the land
Scottish deer: a view from the outside
About 20,000 of us tourists gratefully receive our recently boiled-out antlers from our Scottish stalkers every year. Many, like me, come from outside Scotland. This year, we are coping with a violent act of cutting-off-noses-to-spite-faces.
Grouse and trophy bans: how to replace the politicians of hate
What a week. On Thursday, Holyrood voted to ban grouse shooting in Scotland. On Friday, Westminster passed the second reading of a bill to ban trophy imports. What can we do? Can we get new politicians with sense? These ones are broken.
Woodcock, elephants and the scientist in the room
It’s time for another whinge about the antis and what they are up to. This time, I’d like to look at their careful, clever and deceitful use of numbers.
Big game hunting: oh, how TV presenters love it…
When the Daily Mirror published its ‘Reindeer Horror’ front page in time for Christmas 2023, it set off a media chain reaction that gave TV shows something to talk about and will, I hope, make us a lot of money
From Aa to Zi - My Mission to Fish the Alphabet
Have you ever noticed how many waterways have names that sound like letters? I've set out to fish all 26 letters of the alphabet
EXCLUSIVE: how the RSPB bagged the bulk of Britain’s private woodlands
The antis are at it again. In 2024, it will either be harder to site a pheasant pen in a woodland than it is now, or the conservation industry will have successfully set back forestry stewardship by a generation.
Landowners or birdwatchers: who’s the biggest bad guy?
The future of the countryside is a three-way fight. Here I size up the pugilists and say who I am betting on
How DEFRA is trying to close down the countryside I love
The cauliflower alone was not enough. We put it on a chair.