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The Countryside Fights Back
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN It was with some reluctance that I was asked to present on film my take on the current battles over the Great British Countryside. Not my scene at all. Nonetheless I trooped up to Yorkshire with our terrier Angus (our labrador was banned by the producers as they thought he might gobble the microphone muff) and we shot the following three films … Continue reading The Countryside Fights Back
Game Fair 2022
CSM EDITORIAL Many thanks to Charlie Jacoby and the Fieldsports TV team, as well as to Carter Jonas for setting up the Game Fair tent for a myriad of speakers to express their views over Game Fair weekend, held again this year at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. The full video of our Editor Dom Wightman’s interview can be found below: The links to the ‘Packham … Continue reading Game Fair 2022
Sign Creep
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The drive from Gatwick Airport into the heart of the Surrey villages was a magnificent one. The network of winding country lanes from Charlwood across Dorking and through to the duck pond at Shamley Green were breath-taking on a summer’s day. So stunning that our usual taxi driver, Mr Ford – a driver of Vauxhalls – once told us that he drove … Continue reading Sign Creep
Baileys’ Quoque
BY ROGER WATSON I recently introduced readers to a minority movement, described as ‘virus deniers’. They prefer to describe themselves as ‘virus sceptics’ and quickly enact Godwin’s Law (that eventually all arguments end up with someone being compared to Hitler) when the term ‘denier’ is used. For evidence of this see the comments that greeted another similar piece published in The Daily Sceptic. However, they … Continue reading Baileys’ Quoque
The ‘Devolved’ & ‘Reserved’ Admonishment
BY EFFIE DEANS The United Kingdom has various serious problems at the moment. Some of them are short term primarily caused by our response to Covid, others are more long term. Many of us will struggle to heat our homes or drive our cars, because of long term failures in our energy policy. But the greatest threat to the UK and the greatest long-term problem … Continue reading The ‘Devolved’ & ‘Reserved’ Admonishment
A Prayer for New Opportunities
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that my weekly message finds You well and healthy and that You are enjoying the summer. We may not always be able to see ahead in everything God is doing. We may not always understand His ways or timing, but we can be confident of this: He is at work. Always. It may not seem like … Continue reading A Prayer for New Opportunities
Mexico’s Shameful Circus Animal Bloodbath
BY NIGEL BEAN Please spare a thought for the Mexican trainer Nicky Fuentes Ziccolonee (in the photos below) and her beautiful tigers, most of which are now dead. What follows below, from our Mexican friends, is the story of Mexican Circus animals and what happened after the ill thought out Mexican Circus Animals ban: What happened to the animals of Mexican Circuses after the ban? … Continue reading Mexico’s Shameful Circus Animal Bloodbath
Tolkien Reduced to Woke
BY DANIEL JUPP It’s actually heart-warming to read through the comments on an Amazon Prime ad for their Lord of the Rings (The Rings of Power) series. People are ripping the piss out of it. The ad features what I suppose is meant to be either a wizard or a hobbit, maybe Gandalf, maybe Bilbo’s great grandfather. It’s hard to tell because the actor is … Continue reading Tolkien Reduced to Woke
Trophy Hunting & Britain: The Case for a Ban
BY JOHN NASH A report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Banning Trophy Hunting June 29, 2022: If you wander into a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Banning Trophy Hunting (APPGBTH), you may be forgiven for thinking you have wandered into the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars…it is a smug, tinfoil-hat group of cranks and zealots who suffer from a bizarre, … Continue reading Trophy Hunting & Britain: The Case for a Ban
Regenesis
BY JAMES BEMBRIDGE Those familiar with George Monbiot’s journalism – to use the word in its loosest and most absurd sense – will know of his strange, almost pathological obsession with farmers. He writes endlessly about abolishing livestock farming and rewilding agricultural land, but shows little care or consideration as to what should happen to the families and communities for whom farming is not just … Continue reading Regenesis
Coming Home
BY STEWART SLATER “It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” It may seem churlish to drag up Dr Johnson’s dictum on women preaching in the aftermath of the Lionesses’ famous victory. For it was, surely, one of the great British achievements worthy, on the basis of the breathless and ubiquitous coverage, of comparison to the discovery of … Continue reading Coming Home
Truss Must Defend the United Kingdom
BY EFFIE DEANS It is now almost certain that Liz Truss will be the next Prime Minister. Unless something very strange happens, Sunak has already lost. Her first task is to protect the United Kingdom. Any Prime Minister whose action or inaction leads to the break up of the UK will be remembered for that and that alone. The UK is threatened in two ways. One … Continue reading Truss Must Defend the United Kingdom
A Prayer for Patience
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and enjoying the weekend. This week I would like You to consider the matter of patience. Patience is one of those virtues that we all strive to maintain in our everyday lives. But sometimes our self-control wanes and impatience settles in, whether we are dealing with a problem at work or home. … Continue reading A Prayer for Patience
Is Human Extinction Inevitable?
BY MEG LEE CHIN There comes a moment when something you only understood intellectually becomes something more tangible. This understanding surpasses the intellect. It becomes something you know in your soul. Prior to the siege of the US Capitol, The idea of human extinction was something I was aware of intellectually. But afterward, I knew in my bones it would one day be inevitable. Trump … Continue reading Is Human Extinction Inevitable?
Beware the Bland Candidate
BY DANIEL JUPP How interesting it was this week to see Keir Starmer stating that his approach is ‘pragmatic rather than ideological’. Those who lack charisma often try to portray themselves as a safe pair of hands. Asserting that you are non ideological is a way of doing this. Yes, I may be boring and you may find yourself falling asleep as I talk to … Continue reading Beware the Bland Candidate
Shepherds Forgotten Again
BY JIM WEBSTER I’ve worked with sheep, but I’d never call myself a shepherd. I’ve not got that level of expertise. But one of the things about shepherds is that they tend not to be centre stage. Historically they were always looked down upon. Even more so than the rest of us involved in agriculture, shepherds were shunned. (Even now ‘peasant’ is an insult in … Continue reading Shepherds Forgotten Again
Cruise Control
BY JOHN NASH The Daily Maverick’s padded-cell correspondent, Don Pinnock (Dumb Pillock), has been at the crayons again. Personally, I’m convinced the nurse has been overdoing his meds. On 7th July ’22, he scribbled a Daily Maverick (a leading South African source of news, opinion and investigations) farticle about “a forensic study” into Botswana’s Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) conservation system. The “study” found … Continue reading Cruise Control
In Liz We Trust
BY EFFIE DEANS Politics is partly about opinions and persuading others to vote for those opinions, but it is much more about truth. In an election we are faced with a choice between Labour and the Conservative parties. Each puts forward a set of policies and personalities and the voters choose between them. It’s partly a matter of taste. Do you prefer the Left to … Continue reading In Liz We Trust
Collapse into Necessity
BY FRANK WRIGHT We have seen of late the spread of farmers protests – from the Dutch, who object to a third of their farmland being seized by politicians, to Italy, Germany, Spain, and Macedonia. This is a striking indication of the deep division between people and politics in the management system known as Western democracy. The issues which drive cultural conflict within nations are those concentrated in … Continue reading Collapse into Necessity
A Prayer for Honesty
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and enjoying the cooler days after the heatwave. This week I would like You to consider Your honesty. Are you a truthful person or a liar? Are You true to Yourself or are You someone who never quite faces up to their weaknesses and dishonesty? The Bible is clear about honesty: ‘Whoever … Continue reading A Prayer for Honesty
Cafod Olé
BY ROGER WATSON With the Holy See in the grip of a South American Communist and the long but not so gradual decline of the Roman Catholic Church since the 1960s and the disaster known as the Second Vatican Council, nothing really surprises me any longer when I grit my teeth and join the faithful each Sunday morning for weekly Mass. From the caterwauling in … Continue reading Cafod Olé