BY JOHN NASH It is that time of year, when poisonous mushrooms suddenly re-erupt all over the place without warning and this year many are, as in the past, infected by a particularly stubborn pathogen. Despite dying instantly when exposed to the bright light of truth, and regardless of being repeatedly stamped out, a damnable scourge continues to re-emerge again and again. I refer to … Continue reading You Have Been Verwoerd
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’
BY JOHN NASH On June 28th, PLOS One, the extremely popular and important inclusive journal community that “works together to advance science by making all rigorous research accessible without barriers”, published a startling new piece of research by Abigail Anderson, Sophia Chilczuk, Kaylie Nelson, Roxanne Ruther and Cara Wall-Scheffler. Apparently, all five of these authors are fragrant hominids designated biological XX chromosome carriers at birth … Continue reading Yes, Women are Hunters Too
BY NIGEL BEAN On the sixteenth of this month, Labour-run Liverpool Council passed a motion condemning all field sports as barbaric. This means they are labelling the hundreds of thousands of mainly rural folk that make a living from field sports with the tag barbarian. This includes the thousands of farmers that produce our food and tend our land for the benefit of all, often … Continue reading We, Barbarians!
BY JAMIE FOSTER On the 10 July 1997, for the first time, I engaged my democratic right to peacefully protest by carrying my 2 month old daughter in my arms on the Countryside Rally. At the time I didn’t believe that even a Labour Government would pass such an illiberal and discriminatory piece of legislation as the Hunting Act turned out to be. I didn’t … Continue reading A Passion for the Hunted Hunter
