Britain's leading green commentator, George Monbiot, gives the head of the Campaign to Protect Rural England an unforgettable grilling, asking why the countryside watchdog opposes windfarms - but not opencast coal mines

If that Law did well to reduce from liberty to bondage for an ingratitude not the greatest, much more became it the Law of God to enact the restorement of a free born man from an unpurpos’d, and unworthy bondage to a rightfull liberty for the most unnatural fraud and ingratitude that can be committed against him.

As a kid, he used to catch sunnies with a cane pole and garden worms in the stream behind the house.

Then another ewe started to behave in a way that was most unsheeplike and, for a while anyway, I thought it rather impressive.