If by ‘long-term’ you mean the spread of farming since the neolithic revolution and so on then, yes they are a feature associated with farming, which certainly has contributed to environmental degradation over the millennia.

However, unless we are going to abandon farming altogether - which simply isn’t going to happen in the UK any time in the foreseeable future, and would bring a whole raft of other environmental changes - then hedgerows are a very significant habitat for the community of native species that have existed alongside farming for far longer than written records - and form major connective routes between larger areas of woodland.

Beavers were hunted to extinction around 400 years back - hedgerows had little if any impact on that.

Ladybird larva, or ladybug larva, depending on where you are.

I hate to be that guy, but it should be Physiological needs at the bottom, not psychological.

That’s not the correct sentence.

The headline, that is. I couldn’t comment on the outcome of the court case.

Paris Police 1900 is on my watchlist, I had just about heard of Balkan Shadows, but not looked into it. Thanks.

It certainly needed at least one more season, but what there was was very good.

• Le Bureau
• LEffondrement
• Babylon Berlin
• Dark
• Beforeignors
• Anxious People
• Parlement (goes downhill after S1)
• The Eternaut

Welfare unit for the contractors working on the street works project. It will have a loo, a break room, a kettle etc etc.

I think my equivalent at that age would have been going to a friend’s house to watch their newly acquired colour TV instead of our B/W one.

They have only recently- last couple of decades - been reintroduced to Devon. That has been fairly successful, so I expect that there will be plans to reintroduce to Cornwall eventually.

Why did they die out there in the first place? Loss of habitat. They are very specialist and need a particular mix of heathland vegetation. Loss of heathland altogether and changes in management to the remaining land: overgrazing, undergrazing, ‘improvement’ by adding fertilizer (there were poorly regulated government grants for that at one point, that were abused and led to a lot of bracken and bramble taking over) and so on.

With just one photo to go from and without knowing what is under that lower arch, it’s really going to be a guess.

Looks 19th or early 20th century, so perhaps something industrial. Maybe a pumphouse of some kind if I had to guess.

What country? What is the environment around it: woodland? mountainous? Is that some kind of ditch or stream under the lower arch? Are there any other structures nearby?

I copied and pasted the first few paragraphs from the article - as I typically do with almost all the articles I post here. The text as it stand above is as it was when I copied it this morning. It looks as though they have edited it to read ‘killed or injured’ since then.

We have deer stalkers. This article summarises the process of becoming one.

‘Economical retribution’?

Back then I was living and working on an island nature reserve (great experience, but nothing like as idyllic as that sounds to a lot of people) and my marriage was going through a rough patch.

Since then I’ve changed roles, been promoted, moved back to the mainland - moved 3 times in fact - but am now settled and our marriage is going much more smoothly. Retirement is on the horizon.

I associate this with fascists and right-wingers going back a few generations as being broadly equivalent to ‘woke’ these days: i.e. anything vaguely progressive that they didn’t like.

So, without additional context, my reaction would be to assume that the person saying this was a fascist - and therefore to treat any further interactions accordingly - and to wear the term with honour.

• Titicut Follies
• Man on Wire
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Letter From Siberia
• Atomic Cafe
• Manufacturing Consent

• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
• The Third Man (1949)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Stalker (1979)

Probably several others, but those are the first to come to mind.

Volunteering: soup kitchen, wildlife conservation, hospital driver, train restoration, old folks home or whatever is going on near you that takes your fancy.