No retreat at Dunkirk
From time to time life throws up small events that if left unconsidered simply dissolve into the haze, but when looked at closely reveal everything […]
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When the law may not be the answer
It is understandable that bodies like BASC and the Countryside Alliance should welcome the Conservative manifesto commitment to make trespass illegal; however, should a new […]
Lord, please don’t have Mersey on us.
The only possible reaction to the news that Liverpool City Council had passed a motion condemning all game shooting as “barbaric” is well, what else […]
Life in the wild west
The video which accompanies this article is both chilling and at the same time illustrative of the apparent impunity with which so called animal rights […]
Let’s give them some of the same
The multi-agency group behind the Langholm Moor Demonstration Project has published its final report. Starting in 2008 a team of five gamekeepers was employed to […]
RSPB: Still struggling with the facts
Claude Cockburn’s will not be a name known to many now, but fifty years ago this former foreign correspondent and writer was widely recognised well […]
Licenced to kill
Last week Countryside Alliance chief Tim Bonner met the new Secretary of State for the Environment, Theresa Villiers. Heading the list of topics for discussion […]
Charlie Packsem’s them in at Bird Fair
At the annual gathering of the ornithological clan, the Bird Fair, held two weeks ago, shooting journalist Charlie Jacoby, bearded the lion or in this […]
You couldn’t make it up
That hackneyed phrase was the one selected by Chris Packham to describe reports much covered in the press, concerning British shooters travelling to Iceland to […]
The Exclusion Games
Shooting sports was forced to yield last week. For all its articulacy in making its case, it had no defence against one of modern life’s […]
Law abiding pay a criminal price.
On the June 20th a firearms licencing team, backed up by more than 20 police including two armed officers- appeared at the premises of a […]
What a shower
In August last year we covered the tragic case of Stanley Metcalf, (see: ‘Not nice work from the Network‘ 16-08-18) the six year old boy […]
With friends like these….
It doesn’t take much to imagine the smug satisfaction felt by those involved with Wild Justice after its torpedoing of the general licence. The campaigning […]
WHEN DOING NOTHING IS NOT AN ANSWER
All the agencies involved are to be congratulated on the latest announcement of the results of the successful campaign to exterminate the rat population on […]
DANGEROUS SKIES OVER VENTNOR?
Whoever it was who took the picture of a sea eagle making off with a lamb clutched in its talons, has done everyone who cares […]
THE MEANING OF THE LETTER OF THE LAW
First published in 1853 as a country newspaper for the hunting, shooting and fishing community, by 1986 The Field magazine was struggling. With a circulation of just […]
Three’s Company
There was something wholly predictable about the launch of Wild Justice. According to one of its joint founders, BBC TV presenter Chris Packham, the central […]
Fat Chance
Interviewed in the March issue of industry publication, Gun Trade News, Rebecca Schönfelder, manager of Europe’s biggest shooting show, IWA, mentioned that in the past […]
Well if they’re not going to, we might
as well
Magazine publishing has ceased to be the great business opportunity it was and publishers cast around desperately for ways of earning a few bob, which […]
When praise doesn’t improve matters
Every so often a shooting magazine will publish a letter from a reader, in which the correspondent offers a peon of praise to a police […]
WILL CHRIS HAVE TO FASHION AN EXCUSE?
There was a modest fanfare when in the Spring of last year anti-fieldsports campaigner and animal rights personality, Chris Packham, announced the launch of a […]