As a Conservative Party member, I completely agree.

Was pleased to lead this debate on how we can and must quickly ratify the #GlobalOceanTreaty

📺 WATCH: MPs call for the ratification of the #GlobalOceanTreaty .

🌊 This will protect ocean life and provide a pathway to creating more marine protected areas.

Hear from Kevin Foster and CEN MPs Thérèse Coffey & Andrew Selous MP below: 👇

✍️ New Next Generation Centre paper out today!

So excited to have co-authored this with Sam Bidwell.

Written by young people, for young people 🫶🏼

🌃On the Rocks: London’s Nightlife in Crisis

adamsmith.org/research/on-th…

The importance of nature cannot be understated. 🌱

Here at the #G7Italy Ministers’ meeting with Andrew Bowie MP I’ve reiterated the UK Government’s commitment to putting nature at the heart of our response to climate change.

Nature restoration is one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal to tackle the climate crisis. Read my article here in Chamber UK about how as a Government we are going further and faster to protect and enhance nature

Sometimes “big brands” tell planning authorities or business districts that they “must” have loud and garish fascias to “go” with their brand colouring. It’s always nonsense. They don’t.

This weekend's essay The Times and The Sunday Times by Dominic Sandbrook is absolutely on point on the grinding but inexorable shift to a new political settlement.

And I'm not just saying that because The Death of Consensus makes a cameo appearance:

thetimes.co.uk/article/britai…

🍴Food Waste and Food Redistribution Debate🍴

I recently secured a Westminster Hall Debate on Food Waste and Food Redistribution. Watch my speech below 👇

Nice to see sausages from local *wild* wild boar making their way onto menus in the increasingly wild landscapes of the West Country. Attempting to eradicate native wildlife is grotesque; whereas sustainably and humanely hunting wild boar and deer for meat is ideal.

When the view is so nice your phone can’t believe you are still in England

'A bottom-up, trust-the-people approach came naturally to the heirs of Disraeli and Thatcher. It would give individuals purpose and skills, and progressively reduce demand for expensive, remedial state services'

Danny Kruger excellent on the Big Society
politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

I swim in, rather than drink it but I also agree it should be 0%. Accuracy is important and I was after real time, accurate, transparent and independent information that is readily accessible to the public. We are arguing for the same thing here 👍

Corpus Christi 2024: Thursday 30th May - 6.30 pm
High Mass, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament down Oxford Street & Benediction.
Preacher: Fr Steve Rice, Rector, St Timothy's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Music: Haydn, Jugendmesse; Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus.

Brexit allows us to do this.
Even if it leaves the EU huffin’ we will safeguard the Puffin.

Bit of a BOOKISH NEWSFLASH for you…

For the last five years I’ve been researching and writing a book

I’ve poured everything I’ve got in to it, and then some

It is about this insanely beautiful place… and the people who live and work in it

As welcome as it is to see Labour commit to nature recovery, it would be good for them to acknowledge (and commit to retain) the ground-breaking nature policies in the Agriculture and Environment Acts, and to put forward concrete policies of their own. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’ve seen through the looking glass

NEWS | UK Government Sets 2027 Target for Deposit Return Scheme Launch circularonline.co.uk/news/uk-govern…

The Defra undersecretary stressed the 'complexities and economic burdens' that including glass could impose on retailers and consumers, particularly under current economic strains...

🚨 CEN RESPONDS🚨

Following the government's decision to delay the Deposit Return Scheme, CEN's Kitty 🐿 said:

'It is disappointing... [but] with yet more time to play with, it is essential for the government to use it to listen to industry and provide them with clarity.'