Richard Nourse

Harrison Ford, "Humanity is a part of nature, not above it" "We have an essential mandate to protect 30% of the world's land and sea by 2030, to prevent the mass extinction, to slow the warming of our planet" "We are still losing nature to profiteering, corruption, conflict, including land that is already protected on paper. These efforts matter but they're not enough" "We need cultural change" "We need to extend social justice" "We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood" "These communities have long understood that the trees, the mountains, water, soil, are not commodities, they are relatives to be cherished for following generations to embrace and protect" "We can all play our role in embracing that wisdom in our day to day lives by loving the planet" "By honouring nature's authority, her generosity, the bounty she affords us. The justice of her example" "Because the world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”

Not even the Russian one?

I first met Clark Reynolds when he was just three years old at our Black History Month reception at the White House. Over the last ten years, it's been wonderful getting updates about his life through his letters. Check out how he’s doing now:

WATCH: Asked Nigel Farage last night abt his £5m gift from Christopher Harborne. Why did he not just declare? Does he regret that? What’s his response to those who argue it looks dodgy? He said my Qs were a “waste of space" & was clearly annoyed in what became a tense exchange

You Loved the Hydrogen Ladder (I know, Version 6.0 is long overdue!), meet the Electrification Staircase. Electrify Everything is dead; long live Electrify Almost Everything. And here's the road map. mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-electrif…

Tara is right of course but people need to want to listen to hear.

@MDC12345678 @TiceRichard @RenewableUK Hi Maurice - a few thoughts if I may! AR7 contracts are for future delivery years so aren't on the bill yet. But they cleared 40pc or more below the cost of new gas gen according to @energygovuk 1/

@joeandthejuice have been in your Westgate shop for 15 minutes in a queue where 4 maybe 5 people have been served by your three team members. #teamtraining

@TonyJuniper @KarenShackleto5 @markrwilliamson Same just outside Marlborough

@markrwilliamson We had a forecast for prolonged heavy rain in #Cambridge yesterday evening. Barely got beyond a bit of drizzle, amounting to less that one millimetre. Ponds already drying out & cultivated soils dusty & desiccated. It’s only early May…

Weekend repost: East had the least rainfall at start of Spring.

This is just great.

Lady Gaga performed Elton John’s “Your Song” in front of him and absolutely nailed it!❤️

King Charles to the United States Congress “…our generation must decide how to address the collapse of critical natural systems, which threatens far more than the harmony and essential diversity of Nature. We ignore at our peril the fact that these natural systems – in other words, Nature’s own economy – provide the foundation for our prosperity and our national security.” royal.uk/news-and-activ…

I just wanted you to listen this masterpiece for last time for tonight ❤️

@Jenny_1884 1/ Solar panels occupy ~0.1% of U.K farmland. 2/ To place that in context, U.K golf courses occupy seven times the amount of land as solar installations. 3/ There is no mysterious ‘they’ - that’s just conspiracy nonsense. Farmers are the ones diversifying into clean energy.

Backstory: George Harrison wrote it. Beatles dissed it (as usual). So his pal Clapton came & rocked: White Album ‘68. Rolling Stone Mag snubbed Prince, omitting him on “100 Greatest Guitarists” list. So he snubbed THEM with this performance.

Latest #Curlew results from Breeding Bird Survey Since 1995: Scottish breeding numbers down 62% Wales - down 74% England - down 33% Northern Ireland - too few to work out change. Massive declines - DESPITE really high survival rate of adults. wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/mor… #ornithology

Trust @TiceRichard to be promoting false claims about climate change, such as sea level is not rising around the Maldives. In fact the data shows an average annual rise of 4.48mm between 1989 and 2018. He cannot be trusted to tell the truth: #d1e296" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In 1983, Michael Jackson glided across the stage and debuted the moonwalk! The moonwalk wasn’t just a dance move. It was a shift in pop culture. It was the most amazing and iconic move that became his signature moment. Michael Jackson became a dance enigma that night. Did you watch that extraordinary moment?

The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet.

Labour Loves the Countryside. It Just Hates the People Who Run It. A woman walks into a tailor's shop in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. She loves the heather hills, she says. The wooded dales. The purple moorland stretching to the horizon. What she cannot stand is the shooting that takes place on the Glorious Twelfth. Jeremy Shaw, the tailor, has heard this before. He considers whether to explain that the heather she travelled three hours to admire exists because of the grouse moor she despises. The gamekeepers who manage the land, suppress the bracken, and keep the moorland in the condition that makes it worth visiting. The cake, in other words, was baked by the baker she came to castigate. What is worrying is that the government shares her confusion. On March 18, Labour published its Land Use Framework. Half a million acres earmarked for solar panels. Nine percent of farmland committed to rewilding. And buried on page 45, a proposal to license game bird shooting, potentially restricting pheasant and partridge releases onto estates. The trail hunting ban came first. Licensing comes next. Each measure arrives with its own rationale. Together they form a programme. Licensing does not prohibit. Bureaucracy does not ban. Smaller shoots simply cannot absorb compliance costs, fold quietly, and nobody in Whitehall answers for the consequence. A Natural England case near Helmsley shows the method. A longstanding partridge shoot was barred from releasing birds until after the season had already started. Shoot days cancelled. Revenue gone. Natural England's hands formally clean. Helmsley bucks every trend in British retail. Four pubs in the town square. A Michelin-starred inn nearby. A tailor forty years in business in what a mentor once called a dying trade. Seventy-five percent of Shaw's revenue is shooting-related. The Pheasant hotel runs at sixty percent shooting occupancy through winter. The deli sells local cheese to Norwegian and German sportsmen. Shooting contributes £3.3 billion annually to the UK economy and supports nearly 147,000 jobs. Pull the shooting thread and the weave comes apart. One Helmsley pub changed hands a few years ago. The new owners decided they wanted nothing to do with shoot trade. They lost heavily, then went back to the estates cap in hand. The market delivered the verdict that policy is not yet ready to impose openly. Licensing achieves the same result without anyone having to take responsibility. The conservation argument collapses under scrutiny. Grouse moor owners have restored 217,000 acres of upland heath in the past 25 years. The almost-extinct curlew is four times more likely to fledge on a managed grouse moor than on unmanaged moorland. The landscape that Whitehall has identified as the problem is the reason the landscape exists in the form they claim to value. When asked what economic trade-offs it had actually modelled, the government was vague. Officials said they recognised shooting's cultural importance and would work with industry toward a sustainable relationship. Starmer has been invited to visit Helmsley and see how the economy functions. He has not replied. He should go. He should meet the gamekeeper loading double guns through winter to keep the household solvent. The beaters earning seventy pounds a day. The tailor measuring 24 keepers for tweed suits stitched with Essex lining and Yorkshire zips. What rural Britain is being offered instead is a licensing regime that will first eliminate smaller shoots, then larger ones, then the hotels and tailors and pubs, until the moorland reverts to bracken and the towns that shooting sustained join the dying high streets that apparently only the countryside had managed to avoid. The heather on the North York Moors, Jeremy Shaw at Carters Country Wear, and the market town of Helmsley. All three exist because of shooting. Labour's Land Use Framework puts all three at risk.