Tag: Brian May
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MBR Acres acquittal, Brian May & Glastonbury, Cobalt, Orca dialects, Carden International Circus
Food elsewhere is no doubt scarce as the cold weather continues to bite, so there is as much varied bird life in the garden as there ever is. In just the last ten minutes I have seen no fewer than six Jackdaws, a pair of Greenfinches (not seen for a while), a Chaffinch, Robins, Blackbirds,…
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RSPCA Assured scheme scandal update
I have written about this several times, most recently, following Brian May’s resignation as vice-president, here: HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk – Animal Wild I had allowed myself to believe that the RSPCA made no money from the wholly discredited scheme and so remained mystified as to why they didn’t just drop it. Why did I…
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HARDtalk with Ingrid Newkirk
Interviewed by the always incisive Stephen Sackur on the BBC’s HARDtalk, the PETA president was magnificent. She was, as ever, calm, assured, and totally unflappable. She gave her answers politely but was never mealy-mouthed. Quietly forceful, never strident. “Animals are not like us,” she said, “they are us.” Her interviewer provocatively suggested that animals do…