Ordnance Survey have undertaken some fascinating analysis of data recorded on their online mapping and App system, OS Maps, and featured alongside Brexit on the front of today's Times. The most popular place for App walkers to start a walk is Edale in the Peak District, but the busiest thoroughfare is the top of Snowdon … Continue reading Our most popular OS Grid Squares: where to spend NELMS?
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The county smallholdings estate is generating an operating surplus of £16.1 million from more than 2,500 farms covering an area of 86,700 hectares let as smallholdings. In the words of the report from which these data are taken: Whilst the data set is incomplete this report indicates that council farms continue to play an important … Continue reading Smallholdings: State of the Nation
The Conversation asked me to write an appreciation of Owen Paterson's tenure as Secretary of State for the Environment. It was published last night under the title, Badgers may cheer Owen Paterson’s exit from Defra, but not everyone feels the same A white, middle-aged, country man who nevertheless forgot to take his wellies to a … Continue reading Defra: a challenging brief
Decision week for Defra Secretary Owen Paterson. He is due to announce the 'modulation' rate for England by the end of the week. Will it be 9% as the NFU wants, or 15% as the RSPB demands? Modulation is EU-speak for the amount of farming support that is diverted (modulated) into more general rural development … Continue reading CAP: Agric Fundamentalists v Enviro Fundamentalists – some inconvenient points
The Conversation is a website sponsored by several universities and others, with the aim of combining academic rigour with journalistic flair. Environment Editor Michael Parker asked me to appraise Prince Charles' editorial in the Country Life, and this is the article published by The Conversation on Friday 15 November 2013. Charles: the future king with … Continue reading The Prince of Wales, Country Life and our countryside heritage
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