AledJones

Aled Jones

Aled Jones trustee of both the Welsh and National Federations of Young Farmers and co-founder of the Young Farmers' Youth Forum. He currently works in the charity sector with young people, on a sheep farm and advises on environmental and Welsh policy whilst studying Law at Corpus Christi, Oxford. He has worked in Westminster assisting the Shadow Environment Secretary and in House of Lords for the Leader of the Opposition.

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The badger cull is no cure

Aled Jones

And so it begins. After an odyssey of Homeric proportions through the UK legal system, the coalition’s Godzilla style rampage though England’s green and pleasant land continues with a new enemy: the badger. This cull is a jackhammer blow to biodiversity and the environment, but that’s not to say the issue of bovine TB on…

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Sustainability is the ally of growth, not the enemy

Aled Jones

In Defra, like many other departments, it was more 52-card pickup than a reshuffle, with both Caroline Spelman and Jim Paice leaving the government to be replaced by Owen Paterson and David Heath. The consequences of asking two new ministers to head a number of labyrinthine policies at a critical time does not bode well…

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