Editorial

Unless it emerges that there was some other extraordinary circumstance to make this decision obviously and irrefutably correct, it’s yet another bad move by the RSPBA – not necessarily to reject Russell’s scores, but not to be completely detailed and transparent and open about the exact reasons for their decision.

In pre-internet days, only those who heard the contest live were aware of the insidious dues-paying system of judging. Those days are thankfully gone.

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While on the surface, the loss of a major RSPBA pi …

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Large bands that would reduce numbers by five or six would make a profound and lasting contribution to the greater good

It’s subjective judgment that always trips us up

There is an opportunity to reinvigorate in this most unlikely time