My Beef is Greener Than Your Avocados
The case for rehabilitating the reputation of ruminants, those much maligned agents of a regenerative revolution.
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The Man Who Discovered The Stone Age
John Frere is a name few will have heard of, but this largely forgotten Suffolk Squire was the first man to comprehend the true antiquity of mankind.
Moments of Awakening: Connecting with Nature on the Farm
Searching for my own farming epiphany moment, I realised little ones are happening all the time.
Are UK curlews destined to survive only on managed grouse moors?
Let me be clear from the outset: I have no commercial interest in grouse and have never been grouse shooting. This article is not about shooting.
Scaling Suilven: the long way in to Assynt's terrible peak
I'm no hillwalker, but there's an undeniable thrill in climbing across some of Scotland's wildest and most dramatic landscapes... and there's nowhere more dramatic than Suilven.
The one constant of rural life? Being told what to do
Whether governed by landlords or urban bureaucrats, the British countryside is plagued by paternalism
Will this government oversee the extinction of swifts and wild salmon?
From botched trade deals and abandoned green policies to governance by ideology instead of pragmatism... is it not time we had some grown-up politics?
Listening to the land
Both parties would probably deny it but hippies and hunters have more in common than they might think.
Does Labour Care About Nature? Their Latest Attack Suggests "No"
The latest attack on nature-friendly farming planned by the Labour government threatens to change our countryside for good. They must urgently change course.
Winners and Losers: Impact of Trade Deals on British Farming
Overall, Starmer could leave us with the worst of all worlds
Treasury to slash nature-friendly farming budget?
Reports suggest that the budget that enables farmers to make space for nature will be cut in the forthcoming government spending review.
Parrots of power 🦜
From Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC, to the Holy Roman Emperor in the 13th century, to British pirates of the 18th century, one bird family has travelled through space and time as world power politics made manifest.