Culling the stock

Last Sunday I read an article on the cost of badger culling. It is enormously costly, between 2012 and 2014 we paid £16.8 million to kill 2,476 badgers, that’s £6,785 per badger. In Wales, where they use vaccinations, the cost per badger is £293, that’s £6,492 cheaper per badger, a saving of £32.5 million and […]

War, the murder of innocents and Fallon’s lies

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,461 Saturday 11 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, If there is anything worse than a war of aggression, the supreme international war crime, it has to be a government that is engaged in a war of aggression yet denies it to the people it purports to serve. […]

Fracking safe? Insurance companies don’t think so

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,312 Monday 11 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I think you need to have a word with UK insurance companies. It seems they do not share your confidence that fracking is safe. Two thirds of UK insurers will not insure against fracking damage which could include contaminated […]