BY ALLISON LEE Regular readers know I’m a passionate advocate for genuine animal charities. I deeply admire those who dedicate their time and resources to rescuing, rehabilitating, and providing homes for neglected or abandoned animals. This week, I want to highlight the remarkable work of an animal sanctuary in the US. Arthur’s Acres Animal Sanctuary is a nonprofit charity in Parksville, New York, nestled in … Continue reading Arthur’s Acres
BY JOHN NASH Sometimes, Dear Reader, amid the present dark and dismal forest of terrible weather, the daily struggle against the parasitic blobberati, the equally exasperating snivel service, Sir Keir Harmer and, of course, Mad Miliband’s blind dash back to the palaeolithic, it is sheer joy to be reminded of England when you suddenly come across a sheltered glade of genuinely delightful and wonderful, heartwarming, … Continue reading Predators and Parasites
BY BEN O’ROURKE The raptor propagandist Ruth Tingay hates me. I know this, as she blocked me on every social media platform not long after the case against me and Fieldsports Channel was brought by one of her best mates, Chris Packham. But in York on Thursday 29th January, she may have crossed a line from distance-hatred to in-your-face harassment. I was standing outside the … Continue reading Ruth Tingay and the RSPB Hit Squad
BY BERT BURNETT Let’s cut through the polite CNPA press release below and get to the real agenda here. This so-called “investigation” into gamebird releases isn’t about balance; it’s the opening salvo in a campaign built on a foundation of sand, and the first clue is right there in their own words: ‘non-native’. This term is nothing but a political cudgel. When the establishment wants … Continue reading The ‘Non-Native’ Trojan Horse
BY NICHOLAS ROSE How a Welsh Arrest Exposes the Lingering Threat of Single-Issue Terror In the quiet, misty Conwy valley, where the only disturbances are the bleating of sheep and the changing of the seasons, the arrest of a man known to locals as ‘Danny Webb’ sent ripples through the community. But the tremor was felt far beyond the hills of North Wales. It was … Continue reading Net Tightens on UK Cadres
BY JOHN NASH The dreadful Eduardo Gonçalves, operator of the uber-deceitful and frankly political Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting (that has nothing to do with animals other than their use as a Trojan horse to access donations and influence), is in fact a trophy hunter himself – he head-hunts actors, politicians, celebrities and anyone else who makes a living out of pretence, baiting them with addictive offers of unlimited, … Continue reading Hunting Trophies for Cash
BY JAMIE FOSTER A Hilariously Honest Look at the Animal Rights Debate John Nash’s ‘Animal Rights: Complete & Utter Bullsh*t’ isn’t your typical animal rights book. Forget the preachy tone and guilt-tripping; Nash delivers a refreshing, irreverent, and ultimately insightful exploration of this complex and often-polarised topic. He achieves this through a blend of sharp wit, historical context, and a healthy dose of common sense, … Continue reading A Review of ‘Animal Rights: Complete & Utter Bullsh*t’
BY JOHN NASH For the benefit of Volk Starmer, the Israel disarmer, and his red (nose) government with the long rubber shoes – what is the difference between human rights and animal rights? That’s easy. Outside the Labour Party, human rights are very, very important, and animal rights do not exist. It’s difficult to explain to politicians using crayons and alphabet blocks, but here goes. … Continue reading Animal Wrongs
BY JOHN NASH & DOMINIC WIGHTMAN An excerpt from Nash & Wightman’s ‘Dear Townies’ (Western, 2024). Animal Rights organisations like PETA are powerfully supported by actors and celebrities, occupations that are situated far to the left, female side of the cave, just about as far from the doorway and ‘outdoor’ reality as you can get. It is ironic, and not a little hypocritical, that the … Continue reading Yearning for Importance
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Utopian ideas, though charming in theory, always crumble under the weight of their impossibility. They deny human nature: people are complex, driven by a mix of altruism and selfishness, logic and emotion. In a utopia, everyone is expected to behave with perfect benevolence and rationality. However, history and psychology tell us that humans are not wired this way. Alas, we are prone … Continue reading The Stepford Smile
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN A few weeks ago, I noticed that it was possible to listen in anonymously to live Twitter group audio chats. I believe the function is called X Spaces and I’m told it’s been around a while. I listened in on a few chats this way using the Country Squire Magazine account and this is what I discovered: The UK Wannabe Revolutionaries This … Continue reading Chambers of Forlorn Echoes
BY ALAN HERSCOVICI When I was a child, in the 1950s, my father would sometimes bring me down to my grandfather’s fur atelier, on St. Helen Street, in Old Montreal. In the lobby of the grey-stone building, my father greeted Frank, the elevator man, who crashed shut the heavy metal-grate doors, and swung the wood-handled lever to guide our clunking steel cage up to the … Continue reading Montreal’s Fur Ateliers
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Ban Angling? Why not Music? As I sit here between meals this Christmastime, sipping from a mug of recuperative lemon green tea, I acknowledge with hearty respect the remains of the smoked salmon before me. Meanwhile, I stare at another dead salmon – a non-smoker – which stares back at me from beside its savaged acquaintance. During the stare exchange, I ponder … Continue reading On Fish
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Imagine that you are handed the task of selling a new group to the Great British Public. You are given a sandwich board and some leaflets to distribute on Oxford Street. You seek both new members and funds. You have a choice of 3 groups. Choose one from the 3 following leaflet messages to decide which group you prefer to sell: Now … Continue reading The Unsellable Religion
BY RYAN LOBO On January 4, 2007, columnist Tavleen Singh was ordered to pay a fine of Rs 500 when her dog defecated on Marine drive in Bombay. She refused, arguing that when the city was overrun with stray dogs pooping at will in public spaces, it was unfair to fine her. An animal rights activist feeds dogs on Morjim beach in Goa as a … Continue reading Who Let the Dogs Out?
BY RYAN LOBO For centuries, Jallikattu’s cultural reverberations have gone far beyond current definitions of the event – a sacred rite of passage with characteristics of folk craft, ritual, festival and sport, integral to animal husbandry and tradition, providing millions of farmers with entertainment, connection to the sacred and a profound sense of cultural belonging. Unsurprisingly, massive protests rocked Tamil Nadu after the Nagaraja case … Continue reading The Neo-Colonialism of Animal Rights in India
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
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN I was down in Cornwall for the Coronation bank holiday. I was getting to grips with court papers. Let’s not go there – some of you may know why. I spent the following Tuesday – and half of Wednesday – getting cross-examined. The peace of a holiday home perched on top of a cliff above a beach turned out to be a … Continue reading Cordelia
BY DANIEL JUPP I’ve always been proud that the British tend to be kinder to animals than most other nationalities. I like that we don’t eat dogs or cats or horses or dolphins. I put that in the same category as not eating insects, although for different reasons. These things are markers of civilisation. Barbarians torture animals and are unselective about which creatures they will … Continue reading Runners & Losers
CSM EDITORIAL The 2015 ban in Mexico on wild animals in circuses was urged by animal rights activists who declared that circuses were all places of animal exploitation and therefore cruel. Many in Mexico agreed with them without examining the issue in any detail. The Mexican Government enacted a ban, giving the circuses up to a year to find alternative homes for their animals, including … Continue reading The Tragedy of Feelings Over Facts
