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Recent events have amply demonstrated that the man in Whitehall does not know best. The Rt Hon Andy Burnham PC MP 10 Downing Street London SW1 Dear Prime Minister, As you keep communicating with me through social media, I hope you don’t mind if I give you some feedback. Now that you have your feet under the table, you will no doubt be using the summer recess to formulate strategy, undistracted by the clutter of parliamentary business. I hope you will use the opportunity to ge

If we don’t have more sensible conversations, there will be no curlew or lapwing to argue over.

A public sector, captured by green ideology, has proven itself a poor steward of the natural environment.

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A question for you, one for inclusion in the next hunt quiz in the back room of the Fox and Geese, before hunts and rural pubs cease to exist: what is the difference between nidifugous and nidicolous? Answer: the former describes birds with young that are precocious and leave the nest shortly after hatching, normally because they are ground nesting birds that nest in the open. Whereas nidicolous birds, normally ones that nest in trees or holes, tend to have chicks that remain