Moor’s the pity

BRITAIN’S grouse moors are under siege. The conservation industry is intent on acquiring control of their management because, it claims, they are in a parlous state.

The RSPB says they’re ‘industrial landscapes’, devoid of wildlife, that they cause global warming and flooding, that control of predators is so excessive as to risk extinction and that peat is being drained and burnt out of existence. Furthermore, that this mayhem will only be corrected if driven grouse