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‘Africans Hate Hunters’ Propaganda

BY JOHN NASH A couple of weeks ago, I commented on a deceitful article about giraffes written by Don Pinnock—affectionately known as Dumb Pillock—regarding the 40 million acres of South Africa’s legitimate and economically significant US$2.5 billion sustainable game hunting industry. I concluded that piece with the remark: “It would be difficult to pack more deceit into one article.” I must admit, that wasn’t entirely … Continue reading ‘Africans Hate Hunters’ Propaganda

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Rhodesia or Zimbabwe? Whose Land is it Anyway?

BY IAN MITCHELL Cecil Rhodes and the question of who stole Zimbabwe from whom Reading this new biography of the great imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, provokes reflection on landownership rights amongst people who have no general concept of ownership beyond cattle and wives. Rhodes is a controversial figure today, due to his alleged racism and belief in “white supremacy”. The problem is that Rhodes was no … Continue reading Rhodesia or Zimbabwe? Whose Land is it Anyway?

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Eco-Charlatans’ Festival of Flatulence

BY JOHN NASH A small queef of excitement has crept into the Westminster Asylum, that island reserve where the rare creatures of Homo politicus vulgaris live in splendid and well-appointed isolation. A sub-species among them, H. politicus tetraodontiformicus, known as ‘Westminster Greenies’, are in a state of near hysteria.  Fascinating and easily identified by their piscatorial aroma, they are related to the puffer and blow … Continue reading Eco-Charlatans’ Festival of Flatulence

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Is Science Magazine Biased Against Africans?

CSM STAFF WRITER The Squires were sent the following document by a concerned reader: The letter, dated 17 September 2024, accuses Science Magazine of discrimination against African authors. Six letters refuting a published article on elephant hunting in Tanzania, authored by Tanzanian experts, were rejected without explanation. The original article, written primarily by non-African authors, presented a one-sided view, neglecting the positive impacts of hunting … Continue reading Is Science Magazine Biased Against Africans?

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Big Cats Make Fat Cats

BY JOHN NASH Silly season August it is, and World Lion Day on the 10th has seen the publication of another soppy-science report, this time in Nature Conservation, a publication that “strongly encourages papers on ethical… issues related to the management and use of biodiversity and ecosystems” but then also rejects manuscripts of “low scientific quality”.  How it squares the circle between an unscientific ethical … Continue reading Big Cats Make Fat Cats

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Horny Rhinos

BY JOHN NASH On July 2, 2024, The Conversation published an article by Dr Jason Gilchrist, Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, entitled, “South Africa’s 70,000kg rhino horn stockpile must be burnt to prevent illegal trading”. The title is self-explanatory. The good doctor is a global specialist in meerkats and has done field research into the trauma of rhino capture and … Continue reading Horny Rhinos

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European Colonialism is Back as ‘Animal Rights’

BY JOHN NASH This week, I have been remembering a silly school joke:    One evening, a policeman came across a strange fellow who was walking down the street inPenzance, throwing, in all directions, handfuls of white powder from a cloth bag.  “Allo, ‘allo” enquired plod, “And what are we doing, Sir?   “This here be elephant repellent, constable. Good stuff. It keeps elephants away”, slurred … Continue reading European Colonialism is Back as ‘Animal Rights’

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You’re ‘avin’ a Giraffe

BY JOHN NASH That great National Park teeming with African animals that is Crawley, West Sussex, has again been exposing its departing member, ‘Enry Smith MP in the form of his preposterous Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill. The Bill is the fruiting body of a brain-rot fungus commonly known as animal rights that affects luvvies and idealists. It has once again erupted like a common … Continue reading You’re ‘avin’ a Giraffe

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Stoats & Weasels

BY JOHN NASH On 16th June, the political correspondent of that deeply respected British repository of truth and good taste that is the Mirror reported, in its usual ignorant, countryside hate-mongering way, on the House of Lords leg of the passage of the disingenuous Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill.   This bill should be of great interest to the excellent and refined readers of Country … Continue reading Stoats & Weasels

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The Government Tooth Fairy

BY JOHN NASH The British Government, still busy virtue-signalling as it sinks into the quicksand of its own making, has now decided to extend the import ban on ivory to cover animals like hippos, orcas, narwhals, walruses, and sperm whales. Defra, the Department for the Elimination of Farms and Agriculture, says that after elephants, the hippopotamus is the species most at risk of being hunted … Continue reading The Government Tooth Fairy

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Not So Black and White, My Lords

BY JOHN NASH The simple navel-lint miners of the Westminster asylum have now voted to ban the import of hunting trophies. I will try to put this into context so that readers might understand the true horror of this crass demonstration of arrogant, neo-colonial folly.    The “debate” on Friday 17th March was a predictable re-run of the kabuki theatre performances seen earlier in October … Continue reading Not So Black and White, My Lords

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Colonialism All Over Again

BY AFRICAN COMMUNITY CONSERVANCY LEADERS In this open letter to the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell, 109 representatives of community-run conservation areas in the four African countries which come together in the massive Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) respond to the bill currently before the British Parliament to ban the import of hunting trophies to the UK. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier … Continue reading Colonialism All Over Again

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Horns of a Dilemma

BY JOHN NASH The cerebral world of academia has given gas-and-air birth to another classical study for the world’s edification and delight, published a couple of months ago in People and Nature and in Popular Science.  Four eminent researchers have postulated that rhino horns are becoming smaller and conclude that selective human hunting might be to blame, saying, “we found evidence of declining horn size … Continue reading Horns of a Dilemma

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Trophy Hunting is Not Killing Off A Single Species

BY JOHN NASH For those of you who may have missed it, Country Squire Magazine published my piece about the outrageous, unwarranted persecution and hate-mongering voided upon an innocent, law-abiding Mr Rizwan and his family by a fly-speck gutter reporter at the Mirror. You can see that Mr Rizwan is a decent family bloke in a short video (and rather more polite article than mine) … Continue reading Trophy Hunting is Not Killing Off A Single Species

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The Burning of Mr Rizwan

BY JOHN NASH A Private Members Bill is coming up for another airing on the 25th January – the usual theatrical performance in Sleepy Hollow, the common class debating chamber inside the Westminster Asylum. To his shame, it is the “work” of the Conservative “member from Crawley”, Henry Smith. It is a thinly veiled anti-hunting extremist trope, disguised as the “Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill … Continue reading The Burning of Mr Rizwan

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Deeply Regrettable

BY JOHN NASH At the end of November, the BBC, our nation’s very own 5th column and bastion of national self-hatred, announced with glee that “Jamaica is considering whether to seek compensation from a wealthy Conservative MP for his family’s historical role in slavery” – a role from 400 years ago.   For those who have been hiding incommunicado in a covid bunker for some … Continue reading Deeply Regrettable

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Truth Clashes with Ivory Towers

BY MARK CRUDGINGTON Lord Goldsmith wants trophy hunting banned because he finds the idea of it, as well as photos of hunters posing with dead animals, repulsive. This is a call echoed and endorsed by celebrities such as Ricky Gervais, Peter Egan, Chris Packham and even the explorer Ranulph Fiennes. Lord Goldsmith claims trophy hunting is helping species extinction as well as damaging some environments … Continue reading Truth Clashes with Ivory Towers

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Gale: Hypocrisy on Speed

BY JOHN NASH Anxieties offer potential to the unscrupulous and one of the UK’s most unscrupulous exploiters of the fictitious “imaginary evil hunter causing species extinction” is Eduardo Gonçalves and his “Ban Trophy Hunting” company. He feeds the extinction-anxious, the media and politicians alike with a constant stream of displacement nonsense and his hysterical “revelations” about the sins of the imaginary evil hunter. Quite openly … Continue reading Gale: Hypocrisy on Speed

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Only Fools & Remorses

BY JOHN NASH In 2005 BC (before Carrie), Boris Johnson illuminated what was the obvious bleedin’ truth to any Conservative (or anyone with an IQ higher than their age) by writing that the fox hunting ban was “Not about cruelty but a Marxian attack by the Labour government on the upper class”. By portraying fox hunting as a cruel, upper-class thing rather than a traditional … Continue reading Only Fools & Remorses

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Khama Chameleon

BY JOHN NASH There is a CITES meeting in Panama this month, ostensibly to discuss global wildlife protection and trade. Like many before it, it will be infested with top-table eco-parasites sucking a living out of the more serious adult matters, led by Animal Rights Extremists and Big International NGOs all busy buying poor delegates’ votes as usual. Suspiciously coincidental, on 25th November, there is yet … Continue reading Khama Chameleon

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