Notes from the Actual Countryside COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

Notes from the Actual Countryside COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

BY GARY BAXTER As I sit here watching another bloody red kite circle over what’s left of the local songbirds, I decide to have a look at what fresh hell the pen-pushers in their air-conditioned offices have dreamt up for us this week. And Christ on a bike, it doesn’t take long to find it. Everywhere you look, it’s another scheme conjured by some millennial graduate with a degree in environmental studies and not a single day of actual land manage…