One in seven species native to the UK faces extinction. When was the last time you saw a hedgehog? Or heard a grasshopper in a meadow? It is with shame that we reflect that these ‘wild isles’ number amongst the 10% most bio-depleted countries on Earth. And with deepest shame that the BBC will not show the final episode of the new Attenborough series (arguably the most important) on prime-time TV. All to avoid upsetting an assorted crowd of climate change deniers and right-wing landowners.