The River Gipping has carried Roman travellers, trading barges and industrial cargo. Today it's at the centre of an ambitious environmental restoration project that could make conservation history.
If after a negotiation, two parties sign a Memorandum of Understanding rather than legally binding agreement, there will be a reason the parties do not want a legally binding agreement.
This will be because either at least one party does not want to bound or there is no actual common understanding.
The croft is literally awash with orchids: purples & pinks in a great range of size, leaf/flower types & micro-habitat, dozens of nationally scarce pale cream Lesser Butterfly orchids & the first few spikes of rare tiny whites (Pseudorchis albida).
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An aphorism for the ages.
NEW at the Empty City
Some preliminary thoughts on the Court of Appeal decision on Palestine Action
Why it is important to understand how (bad) law is structured
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An idle thought - the extreme harmfulness of algorithmic social media optimized for watch time is now being recognized; what retrospective light does that throw on the argument that the media had no role in shaping politics because they only published things which their readers wanted to read?
fragment John Burnside, 'Taxonomy', The Light Trap (2002), p. 6. the neighbour's in-by, sky SW darkening with rain