"The tendency to see what you want to see is always very strong in all of us"
Sir David Omand - ex GCHQ
Walk the talk
I enjoy finding out what people really think over what they, or their official mouthpiece, say. Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England, responded very openly and bravely to the former. Especially on badgers and curlews, hen harriers and action plans, food strategy and farming. Have a glass or two and listen to part one here (35min) and part two here (25min)
60 sec vlogs
My unaffiliated very short vlogs 'in the field' are attracting attention. On farming, IPCC, forestry, planning, field and forest practices, 'nature friendly' soundbites, animal welfare conflated with wildlife conservation, and other hybrid thinking on predators are stirring juices during a dry bottleneck spell of partisan groupthink.
East intel - what I learnt at the grass roots
'We could do more linking up common ground which is often missed in the speed of today’s urgency.' From grand estates, to swift and turtle dove farmers, to rewilding advocates and gamekeepers - there is much to work on than often meets the eye in the public domain.
My road trip around East Anglia in a week garnered almost too much intel for me to process and to "those who say Zoom is the way forward, I say ‘pah’!"
