David Levy Blog
David Levy – Pollution of the R. Wye: What Happens Now? – Apr 24
David Levy – The Environmental Movement Today – Mar 24
David Levy – How Little Choice leads to Apathy – Mar 24
David Levy – Christmas Observational Blog, 2023 – Jan 24
David Levy – Fishery Communities and the need for Political Lobbying – Jan 24
David Levy – The Source of the next major epidemic – Nov 23
David Levy – Cement in the Background – Sep 23
David Levy – Where We Are, and Where To Go? – Aug 23
David Levy – Lessons from an enforced period of reflection – July 2023
David Levy – The Unified Treaty – Apr 2023
David Levy – The Global High Seas: A Unified Treaty? – March 2023
David Levy – At Long Last – March 2023
David Levy – Defining a politician’s job – Jan 23
David Levy – The Search for solutions – Jan 23
David Levy – The Focus of Marinet’s work and campaigning – Dec 22
David Levy – The Unwritten Malaise – Dec 22
David Levy – Are matters bleak for UK fish stocks? – Nov 22
David Levy – And So It Goes – Apr 22
David Levy – Ukraine – Apr 22
David Levy – Do you want to know a funny thing? – Feb 22
David Levy – The Common Factor – Jan 22
David Levy – New Year’s Day 2022 Blog : A Message to the Troops – Dec 21
David Levy – Environment Bill: The Outcome – Dec 21
David Levy – Environment Bill update November 1st 2021 – Nov 21
David Levy – COP26 – Oct 21
David Levy – Lesson Learnt – A Reflection on the Legal Case : Goodwin Sands/MOD/MMO and Protection of the Goodwin Sands from the Dover Harbour Board’s Dredging Application – Oct 17
David Levy – Small Beginnings – Oct 21
David Levy – Are We Ready for Change? – Oct 21
David Levy – What has been going on Behind Closed Doors? – Oct 21
David Levy – It’s Time Folks for Solutions – Oct 21
David Levy – The Environment Bill : current state of play – Sep 21
David Levy – Who will bring our failing water industry and regulators to account? – Sep 21
David Levy – Your role in the future – Sep 21
David Levy – House of Lords Update on Environment Bill – Sep 21
David Levy – News Update : Is the Water Industry muddying the waters for amendment of the Environment Bill – Aug 21
David Levy – The Water Industry is muddying the waters for amendment of the Environment Bill – Aug 21
David Levy – Why we discharge raw sewage to rivers and the sea – Jul 21
David Levy – An Update on the Environment Bill – Jul 21
David Levy – Transparency or Civil Service Psychobabble – Jul 21
David Levy – What is Deemed Success? – Jul 21
David Levy – Supplementary – May 21
David Levy – Joint Experience – May 21
David Levy – It Takes Years – April 2021
David Levy – Where Does Our Behaviour Come From? – April 2021
David Levy – Panorama BBC ONE TV – 12th April 2021
David Levy – When Will It Ever Change? – Mar 21
David Levy – Where We Need to Go – Mar 21
David Levy – Will Parliament do the job we elect it to do? – Feb 21
David Levy – Is occupying the moral high ground enough? – Feb 21
David Levy – New Year 2021 – Dec 20
David Levy – What is Accountability? – Dec 20
David Levy – Christmas 2020 – Dec 20
David Levy – What a Waste of an Opportunity – Dec 20
David Levy – A Time for Reflection – Nov 20
David Levy – In a Week’s Time and Beyond – Nov 20
David Levy – What came first, the chicken or the egg? – Nov 20
David Levy – Until such a time – Nov 20
David Levy – Making the film : Sand, Sea and Sewage – Sep 20
David Levy – Understanding the Human Condition – Sep 20
David Levy – Sand, Sea and Sewage : Honesty by the EA and Water Companies – Aug 20
David Levy – Sand, Sea and Sewage : More thoughts about whether our sea bathing waters are safe? – Aug 20
David Levy – Who are you ready to say Goodbye to? – Aug 20
David Levy – Opportunities in 2017 – Nov 16
David Levy – Sand, Sea and Sewage : Are English sea bathing waters safe? – Aug 20
David Levy – Whatever Happened to Lazarus? – May 20
David Levy – Who We Are – May 20
David Levy – The World of Anxiety, 2020 – Apr 20
David Levy – Additional Self Isolating Thoughts – Mar 20
David Levy – Global Meltdown – Mar 20
David Levy – Evidence – Mar 20
David Levy – The Word Is – Jan 20
David Levy – Lessons from History – Nov 19
David Levy – You have the right to ask “Why” of the Government – Nov 19
David Levy – XR – anarchy or democracy? – Oct 19
David Levy – S Lowe ECA letter text 16 Oct 2019 – Oct 19
David Levy – Sense and Sensibility – Oct 19
David Levy – The Rule of Law – Sep 19
David Levy – Communication Breakdown – Sep 19
David Levy – Every Generation – Aug 19
David Levy – The Time Is Ripe – an August Reflection on 2019 – Aug 19
David Levy – The Fantasy World of Consultation – Jul 19
David Levy – We’re Listening – A new perspective emerging in marine dredging – Jun 19
David Levy – Rallies – Jun 19
David Levy – Revelation Chapter One – Jun 19
David Levy – Planet First, Country Last – May 19
David Levy – What you can do – A Practical Guide for Anyone – May 19
David Levy – A Real Answer to a Global Problem – May 19
David Levy – Vicarious Liability Applied to Human Rights – May 19
David Levy – The Continuing Story of the Extermination of the UK Sea Bass Stock – May 19
David Levy – Such a Loss – Apr 19
David Levy – Whenever – Apr19
David Levy – Reality check – Apr 19
David Levy – Around the World – Apr 19
David Levy – New Zealand – Mar 19
David Levy – Eight Days Left – Mar 19
David Levy – Crazy Days are Here Again – Mar 19
David Levy – Nuclear Waste and the Global Situation – Mar 19
David Levy – General Observation – Feb 19
David Levy – What is Wrong With Us? – Feb 19
David Levy – No Rule of Law, No Democracy – Feb 19
David Levy – The Failure of Local Government Planning – Feb 19
David Levy – Two and a Half Years Wasted – Jan 19
David Levy – Dazed and Confused 100 Days to Brexit – Dec 18
David Levy – Looking around at the end of 2018 – Dec 18
David Levy – Remembrance Day Reflection – Nov 18
David Levy – Who can lead on an Ocean Protocol to match the Montreal Protocol? – Nov 18
David Levy – How the ocean could benefit from what we do on land – Nov 18
David Levy – Who is avoiding their obligation? – Sep 18
David Levy – Its mine, and you can’t play with it – Sep 18
David Levy – Have you ever wondered . . . . – Jun 18
David Levy – Can we make the law supreme – please tell me how and let me know – Jun 18
David Levy – The urgent need to hold fraud to account – Jun 18
David Levy – Ecosystem collapse – is anyone really interested in the truth and preventing it? – Jun 18
David Levy – The TV programme that really needs making – Apr 18
David Levy – Fisheries after Brexit : Government and the Industry need to focus on sound management and food security – Apr 18
David Levy – Is it Expedient or is it Short Term Greed? – Apr 18
David Levy – Reasons to be optimistic – Feb 18
David Levy – This world requires two types of activist – Jan 18
David Levy – Launch Day : Christmas Eve 2017 – Dec 17
David Levy – History Tells Us – Dec 17
David Levy – Gathering Together at the brink of a catastrophe – Nov 17
David Levy – Wherever You Look! – Nov 17
David Levy – Are you thinking about Marinet’s future? – Nov 17
David Levy – Food in abundance everywhere, but none to eat . . . are you interested in the solution? – Nov 17
David Levy – Diary from Spain, 2017 – Nov 17
David Levy – I’ll Tell You What I Want, What I Really, Really Want – A Reflection – Nov 17
David Levy – Dredging and Environmental Implications – Sep 17
David Levy – The reason people have a poor opinion of our fraudulent politics – Sep 17
David Levy – Being a Passenger – Aug 17
David Levy – The Reason Why We Fight – Aug 17
David Levy – A Seat At The Table – Aug 17
David Levy – The Silly Season – Aug 17
David Levy – Another Way is What Public Voted For – Aug 17
David Levy – Brexit Chaos and Wasted Opportunities – Aug 17
David Levy – Over 100 kilograms of Consultation Paperwork and Wasted Hope – Aug 17
David Levy – Who has the courage to launch into a braver world of real change? – Jun 17
David Levy – On Land Respect, at Sea Forgotten Souls – a Reflection – Jun 17
David Levy – Getting up to Speed with the National Grid – May 17
David Levy – Proof of Life – May 17
David Levy – Who holds the Government to account, when Parliament and the Courts are powerless? – May 17
David Levy – Do you believe in the government, and does the government believe in you? – May 17
David Levy – To solve plastic pollution we need to be more ambitious – Apr 17
David Levy – What links us all to the Horn of Africa? – Apr 17
David Levy – Have you any ideas for stopping the rot? – Apr 17
David Levy – At every corner – Apr 17
David Levy – Meeting with Defra, 27th March 2017 – Apr 17
David Levy – Has our democracy sunk into inertia and an inability to change? – Apr 17
David Levy – It is questions which reveal the truth, and the public who has the power – Mar 17
David Levy – What constitutes a war grave? – Jan 17
David Levy – The problem and solution at the heart of the CFP – Jan 17
David Levy – New Year Message 2017 – Dec 16
David Levy – Lessons to be learnt – Dec 16
David Levy – Who will take responsibility, and so act for our collective good? – Dec 16
David Levy – Defeating the “rubber stamp” with the right arguments – Oct 16
David Levy – The World As We Know It – Sep 16
David Levy – Brexit Inertia – Sep 16
David Levy – The Need to Adapt and to Expand Horizons – Aug 2016
David Levy – Small Victories : Are They Enough? – Jul 2016
David Levy – What kind of logic is driving the NGO movement? – Jul 2016
David Levy – The UK’s Brexit Decision – Jun 2016
David Levy – Who is Going to Step Up to the Legal Challenge? – Jun16
David Levy – Does the Aggregate Industry Usurp the Protections placed on War/Ship Graves? – Jun 16
David Levy – What are we if we cannot provide for future generations? – May 16
David Levy – What does it look like from the other side? – May 16
David Levy – Near to Voting – Are You any Clearer about Making a Decision? – May 16
David Levy – Here is Education for You – Apr 16
David Levy – Pragmatic versus Aspirational Outcomes – Apr16
David Levy – Are we living in a world so corrupt we have forgotten what good is? – Apr16
David Levy – In or Out? The Question of our Generation – Mar 16
David Levy – Landing the Blame: Over-fishing in the NE Atlantic 2016 – A Reflection on the NEF Document by Marinet’s Chair – Mar 16
David Levy – Are you reading this, or is it just lying dormant? – Jan 16
David Levy – George Eustice MP/Minister – Hero or Unmitigated Rogue? – Jan 16
David Levy – How is Paris Going to Happen? – Dec 15
David Levy – When did the World lose its Optimism? – Dec 15
David Levy – Serial Overfishing by the EU Ministers – A Case to Answer, but Who Will Bring it to Court? – Nov 15
David Levy – Characteristics Essential for a C.E.O. Post in the 21st Century – Nov 15
David Levy – What is it all about? Collecting logos, or standing up for what will deliver change? – Nov 15
David Levy – We have a problem, and can you help solve it? – Nov 15
David Levy – Who leads after NGOs abandon Campaigns? – Nov 15
David Levy – Marinet’s success and failure in 2015 – Nov 15
David Levy – The Common Fisheries Policy is all about talk and bureaucracy, and no action – Nov 15
David Levy – Who are the true radicals when it comes to pollution control? – Nov 15
David Levy – The people who draw salaries but deliver nothing – Sep 15
David Levy – What is the point? – Sep 15
David Levy – Is there anyone who knows the truth about fish stocks? – Sep 15
David Levy – Who believes in management control – does Defra? -Aug 15
David Levy – Are the bureaucrats simply waiting for everything to collapse? -Aug 15
David Levy – Every organisation needs an annual review – Aug 15
David Levy – When it comes to fish, is Spain a mirror of the UK? – Jul 15
David Levy – Finding the target and means for a Legal Challenge – Jun 15
David Levy – Not one pound is spent on salaries – May 15
David Levy – Industry versus Conservation. Who do you think will win? – May 15
David Levy Blog – Life President of Marinet : The Marine Community Network – May 15
David Levy – New leadership, new enforcement powers, and new Laws on Ecocide and Governance of the Oceans : that’s the real agenda – May 15
David Levy – Are environmental organisations working co-operatively? – Apr 15
David Levy – It’s the One Time – Apr 15
David Levy – Risk Adverse : Who Are They Kidding? – Apr 15
David Levy – Defra’s Fishing Minister acts contrary to Scientific Advice and against the rebuilding of Fish Stocks – Mar 15
David Levy – The Benefits of Empire – Mar 15
David Levy – Is Defra ashamed of its “conservation policies”? – Mar 15
David Levy – Is change available from the General Election? – Mar 15
David Levy – Replying to Government Agencies and is this a Waste of Resources? – Mar 15
David Levy – Emerging as the new Marinet Ltd – Feb 15
David Levy – Is there hope of a legal challenge, resulting in enforcement? – Feb 15
David Levy – The 14 actions required to solve the fisheries riddle – Jan 15
David Levy – Do we live in a world of hope? – Jan 15
David Levy – New Year Message from the Chairman – Jan 15
David Levy – Can the conservation groups work to conserve in 2015? – Jan 15
David Levy – You make Marinet an organisation which you are proud of – Dec 14
David Levy – Fisheries reform, or a new way of thinking? Time to make your choice – Dec 14
David Levy – Coastal erosion and floods – we can succeed where King Canute failed – Dec 14
David Levy – The fishing disaster – you can create the change, if you want to – Dec 14
David Levy – Do you have an idea running around in your head? – Nov 14
David Levy – Wildlife charities : who is asking who for what? – Oct 14
David Levy – Do Government Agencies recognise the importance of scientific truth? – Blog Extra Oct 14
David Levy – Launching the new Marinet with a Quest for Unity – Oct 14
David Levy – A “seat at the table” means nothing if your aspirations are near zero – Aug 14
David Levy – How to engage and solve the problem – two takes on the answer – Aug 2014
David Levy – The challenges of change – Jul 14
David Levy – Can government and environmentalists step-up to meet their commitments? – Jun 14
David Levy – Has the marine world been shunned by its Friends? – May 2014
David Levy – Are marine NGOs up to the job? – May 2014
David Levy – Do environmentalists know the difference between “right and wrong”? – Apr 2014
David Levy – The Aftermath of CFP Reform – Mar 2014
David Levy – Where does change come from in the marine world? – Mar 2014
David Levy – Battling Against Useless Outcomes – Feb 2014
David Levy – A Message to Marinet Members on Independence from FOE – Jan 2014
David Levy – Trying to Fathom out why we are Hell-bent on Destruction – Dec 2013
David Levy – Is there a reason why NGO campaigns deliver so few successful results? – Nov 2013
David Levy – Governments offer us nothing, only a void for the future – October 2013
David Levy – Let’s be honest: CFP reform means nothing if it does not re-establish food security in fish – September 2013
David Levy – There’s the World we want, and there’s the World we’re likely to get – August 2013
David Levy – Marine NGOs must give leadership based on principle, not consensus – July 2013
David Levy – Beware of messengers who bring “good news” – June 2013
David Levy – Thinking about what “accountability” means – May 2013
David Levy – The “Call to Action” is addressed to You – Apr 2013
David Levy – Money lies at the root of fishing’s evils – Mar 2013
David Levy – The MCZ rally at Parliament – Mar 2013
David Levy – Planning for the Future – Feb 2013
David Levy – Some Things – Jan 2013
David Levy – It Defies Belief – Dec 2012
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