News

Featured
BASC logo
BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

Latest articles

*Comment & Analysis
Ed Miliband: Things are moving in our direction
Interview: Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband talks to politics.co.uk about civil liberties, Tony Blair and why he voted for ID cards. By Ian Dunt Ed Miliband is nice. That’s the first thing I ever heard about him. It came from a civil servant in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Labour had a knack of creating government departments… Read more »

News
Detectives did not engage in unlawful practices, minister insists
Hiring detectives was an overreaction, minister admits

By politics.co.uk staff Justice minister Jonathan Djangoly has apologised after it emerged he employed private detectives to investigate on local party officials. The Huntingdon MP paid over £5,000 to investigators to probe the loyalty of his colleagues, including his agent, the Telegraph newspaper reported. It suggested he had asked the firm, Morris Chase International, to… Read more »