wildlife Articles

Over half a million people signed a petition against the government’s plans to sell off the public forest estate in 2012, with countless local groups rising from the Forest of Dean to Morpeth to save their woods. The forest sell off fiasco encapsulated everything that...

Ten years ago the Hunting Act became law, ending one of the most tumultuous parliamentary battles of the last two decades. It was a major moment in the campaign to halt the cruel and unnecessary practice of hunting with dogs before the act finally came into force on...

In 1995 I was working as an organiser for the Young Labour movement, helping to put Tony Blair as opposition leader in front of young audiences to engage with them on the importance of politics to their future lives. I recall a gathering at a school in Wimbledon where...