Response to Roger Watson’s Article: Terrain Theory Terrorists

BY RACHEL NICOLL Roger Watson’s article ‘Terrain Theory Terrorists’ is disappointingly emotive, labelling terrain theory as nonsense and quoting Wikipedia’s opinion that terrain theory is an ‘obsolete variation’ of ‘germ theory denialism’. Just because one article in Wikipedia says something is a fact, does not make it so. Roger Watson also makes some very sweeping, but unsubstantiated, statements such as ‘But the….doctors who adhere to … Continue reading Response to Roger Watson’s Article: Terrain Theory Terrorists

Moorland Does Matter

BY IAN COGHILL Back in August I failed to notice that Steve Carver had written a lengthy attack on my book Moorland Matters, using Country Squire Magazine’s ‘right to reply’. He started with a complaint that the oft repeated claim that the UK holds 75% of the world’s heather moorland is incorrect and that saying that there is less heather moorland in the world than … Continue reading Moorland Does Matter

Right to Reply: Circus Debate

On February 22nd, Country Squire Magazine published an article about circuses by Dr Marthe Kiley-Worthington. It can be read here. In response, on the 24th February, we received the following reply from Artists United which represents Circus Performers: Please can we have a logical debate? There is a world of difference between the training and the keeping of equestrian and domestic animals and the wild … Continue reading Right to Reply: Circus Debate

How We Should Live With Predators & Prey

BY DR STEVE CARVER When Peter Glenser, Chairman of the BASC, wrote an article for Country Squire Magazine entitled “Custodians of the Countryside” back in November of last year I felt compelled to reply. The magazine’s editors were gracious enough to give me a “Right to Reply” for which I am grateful. A few weeks later, Liam Stokes, Head of Shooting Campaigns at the Countryside … Continue reading How We Should Live With Predators & Prey