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 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
BY PETER HARRIS Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is found in his magnum opus The Republic, is used to illustrate how humans are ignorant of ultimate reality. It was written as an imagined dialogue between Plato’s brother and his mentor Socrates. According to Socrates, humanity is like people who are chained in a cave in a position that forces them only to see a … Continue reading Bringing Knowledge Where There is Ignorance: Dear Townies, Reviewed
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 I have now recovered enough to comment on the Hunting Trophy Import Ban Second Reading in the Westminster Asylum on March 24th. Whenever trophy hunting is about to be mentioned in the Commons, you can always read the script well beforehand – it is written in the Mirror by Eduardo Goncalves. This latest mystic Mirror message promised such excitement, Dear Reader, entitled, … Continue reading ‘Colonialist’ Anti Trophy Hunting MPs Ignore the Facts (Again)
BY JOHN NASH The Conservative Party has detached from its foundations and is bobbing steadily towards a dangerous waterfall, much to the consternation of the captain who has discovered that abandoning well-piloted conservatism and the unfailing support of practical rural people in favour of ephemeral metropolitan popularity has led to pending disaster. Unsurprisingly, many of the invertebrates who came along for the ride are now … Continue reading Deception Returns: The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill 2023-24
BY JOHN NASH I received another one of those emails this week, signed by a person who put (him/his) after their name. What in the blue blazes is going on? Is it something in the water? First, a biology lesson for post-modern and LAME (Look At Me Everyone) people. You are born either male or female. Less than two percent of people have intersex fiddly … Continue reading Infinite Mind Genders
BY JOHN NASH Being an Old Testament bloke, I usually reply in kind to those rude people who call law-abiding farmers, hunters, field-sportspeople and wildlife managers “murderers, killers and evil monsters”. I insult people who tell blatant lies about trophy hunting, and I mock demented Animal Rights (AR) evangelists who are so blinded by zealotry that they can’t tell a human from a hippo. It … Continue reading Fur Stirrer Fry
BY JOHN NASH As the old year drew to a chilly close and the shadowy fingers of the dark half of the year took their last crepuscular grasp before the re-birth of the sun and the re-Birth of the Son, something very ominous began to stir. A tremble began upon the grave of that dead, addled Private Members Bill to Ban the Importation of Hunting … Continue reading The Dodgiest APPG Ever Resurfaces
BY JOHN NASH “AT XMAS…. SICK KILLING TRADE. Reindeer horror. A Scots firm has sparked fury by selling sick reindeer shooting hunts as Christmas approaches” fulminated the Mirror with a front-page spread together with some other rags on the 18th of December. Goodness gracious. For many people, this is the season of goodwill, so this is awful. Poor Rudolph shot dead at Christmas! Except that … Continue reading Reindeer Jingle Balls
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
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 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 JOHN NASH Australia experienced a terrifying Black Summer in 2019/20, when massive bush fires burned some 35 million acres, destroyed an estimated 3 billion vertebrates (perhaps driving a number to extinction), wrecked scores of irreplaceable rock paintings, wiped out 3000 buildings and, sadly, 47 people died. The tragedy may have cost Australia as much as A$80 billion. Now research has revealed the cause of … Continue reading Cool Burning
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
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
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
BY JOHN NASH I love this land, so it has taken a couple of days to calm down enough to write this piece. To the utter shame of our Parliament, some of our MPs met on the 25th of January to “discuss” a Private Members Bill to prohibit the importation of hunting trophies into the UK and move it on to the next stage. Even by … Continue reading Animal Rights Con Artists Infiltrate UK Parliament
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
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
