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Pursuing waders in Persia
21 years ago, I led a group (fully armed) to Iran to shoot snipe and woodcock
Mark Firth
I've been arranging shooting for 40 years, and originally co-founded Roxtons. Mad keen fisherman and smokery owner.
Local businesses: use them, or lose them
Supporting your local shops, pubs, and producers is more crucial than ever—and see how your everyday choices can save your town from decline.
Surprising Signs of Change in Rural Policy
Two surprising broadsheet articles hint the tide may be turning for rural Britain—could change could finally be on the horizon?
Future Salmon for the Frome
How an exciting new project for salmon recovery has been the official green light
Why Bother?
The Future of Small Business Is Now Less Certain Than Ever
Is DEFRA Fit For Purpose?
When DEFRA makes yet another howler, it's time to ask how on Earth we arrived where we are. Everything you read below is true - astonishingly!
The true cost of upland conservation
As grouse moor owners stare down the barrel of another season without shooting, I take a look at the economics of grouse moor ownership
Is it time to take the countryside out of politics?
Calls have been increasing for the formation of a Royal Commission for the Countryside. How have we got here and what good could come from it?
So we think we know how to manage our deer?
Red deer are iconic to both Scotland and Spain yet their management could not be more contrasting
Navigating the Political Landscape: Fieldsports in Transition
Have we seen the best of it? In a brief overview of the political reality for fieldsports in the next four years, I argue not. For fieldsports enthusiasts not all needs to be doom and gloom, provided we take action now.
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Does the UK's firearms licensing system need reform?
The Government is once again consulting on reform to shotgun licensing. Having been in Hungerford at the time of the 1987 massacre, and having had skin in the firearms licensing game ever since, I take a look at how we got here.
Family Businesses are Doomed by Business Property Relief Changes
Amid the furore surrounding the changes to Agricultural Property Relief, the more widespread implications of changes to BPR seem to have gone relatively under-reported, but the effects are likely to be far more widely felt.