February 2014

In a press release today 11 02 14, the South West Office for Strictures and Control on Food and Fodder ( Ofscoff ) [1] ordered the confiscation of marmalade illicitly produced by unqualified persons at an unregistered site in Bath.  A...

The HEAQAA's expert team is busy reacting to comments received on its draft materials.  Tensions abound, I hear, especially  about (1) continuing uncertainty as to who all this is for, and (2) a persistence of the idea that it's ESD...

This was the question posed on Tuesday at a University of Bath I-SEE seminar by Gordon McGlone, an ecologist who spent his career working with the Wildlife Trusts and now runs a consultancy ‘Thinking Naturally’.  Gordon was CEO of Gloucestershire...

I've written before about English Heritage's interest in having some "authentic" Neolithic – neo-Neolithic, that is – houses at the new Stonehenge visitor centre.    Well, here they are, emergent ... The new centre is the building in the background...

An English school suspended a 6-year old boy for 4 days recently.  What was his crime do you suppose? Was he abusive? Was he violent? Was he a bully? Did he have Class A drugs down his trousers? Pornography up...

If you live where I do, it's currently hard to avoid local and national media stories about the recurrent flooding of the Somerset Levels, and the hardships of entire villages now marooned in the floods for weeks.  The Army was...

After the excitement of Thursday's consultation meeting in London, Hefce will be sifting through all those tweets, emails, comments, questions, videos, and post-it notes – and waiting for the deadline (on Friday) of its formal consultation period about its proposals.  I've...