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Christina on
06 August, 2010 : 17:17
Our local group in Durham is going to be out and about tomorrow (despite forecasts of rain) collecting donations and talking to members of the public about our campaigns.
They are one of our smalle...
Written by
on
06 August, 2010 : 08:11
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The League Against Cruel Sports is aptly named. As a charitable organisation we seek to provide human benefit by promoting and facilitating...
Written by
on
05 August, 2010 : 12:35
…but there’s still an awfully long way to go. Catalonia may have banned the brutality of the bullfight last week, but other cruel fiesta events such as the infamous “Toro de Fuego” remain legal in man...
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on
05 August, 2010 : 09:02
Turn to page three of this week's Countryman's Weekly and it's very clear that silly season is upon us.
In an article headed 'League chief seeks advice from the Countryside Alliance', they say:
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on
05 August, 2010 : 08:00
It has been another remarkable week in the media life of the fox. In rather the same way that the apparent fox attacks on the Koupparis girls led to hysteria against foxes, this week's story of the Ur...
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on
05 August, 2010 : 00:30
We have been contacted by a Channel 4 television programme who've asked us if any of our supporters would like to win ... a house.
Here's the email:
We are looking for people to take part in fil...
Written by
on
04 August, 2010 : 23:07
We were booked to do an interview on talkSPORT on Wednesday evening at 10.15pm, to talk about the Urban Fox Hunters story.
They called our interviewee at 10.05pm to say that they had rearranged the...
Written by
on
04 August, 2010 : 15:20
An opinion poll commissioned by the Wall Street Journal has revealed that 90% of Americans support Catalonia’s recent decision to ban bullfighting. Over one thousand people took part in the poll, and ...
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on
04 August, 2010 : 11:50
I know this kind of thing isn't usually the preserve of a blog but I thought it might prove useful to those of you who follow and support the work we do at the League.
Many of you might be scratchi...
Written by
on
03 August, 2010 : 06:00
The idea that the League's eighty year campaign to ban hunting was based on class prejudice is probably the most common pro-hunt argument we hear.
Interestingly, it's also one of the easiest to deb...
Written by
on
02 August, 2010 : 23:00
Over the last few days we have been inundated by calls and emails from supporters concerned with the internet birth of a group calling themselves 'Urban Fox Hunters'.
On the group's blog and Facebo...
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on
30 July, 2010 : 10:10
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
My visit to the CLA Game Fair last week was a profoundly depressing experience. It was like stepping into a time warp where change was not ...
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Katy on
28 July, 2010 : 12:00
Historic judgement was passed earlier today to ban bullfighting in the Catalan region. The Bill will come into force on January 1st 2012 which marks a huge victory for the many anti bullfighting organ...
Written by
on
28 July, 2010 : 11:10
From time to time the League is contacted by people who utter the familiar words, ‘I used to go out with the hunt...’. What follows is usually a description of how the caller came to see a different a...
Written by
on
27 July, 2010 : 00:00
The League Against Cruel Sports is increasingly focusing more of its time and attention on the sadistic practice of urban dog fighting. Dog fighting was the focus of a special meeting the League held ...
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Katy on
26 July, 2010 : 16:00
We’re just days away from a historic decision in the Catalan Parliament which could see an end to bullfighting in the region. Politicians will vote on Wednesday, for the third and final time, on whet...
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Katy on
26 July, 2010 : 15:00
The latest note from Douglas Bathelor, Chief Executive.
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on
23 July, 2010 : 13:50
Just in case some of you haven’t heard, MPs are about to go on their summer hols – or more accurately Parliament is about to go into summer recess. This means we’d like you to take part in our latest ...
Written by
on
22 July, 2010 : 16:15
From Robin Lewis, Wales Campaigner
It is an enormous privilege to be joining the League Against Cruel Sports as their Wales Campaigner. The creation of the post is an exciting development for the Lea...
Written by
on
21 July, 2010 : 15:35
Evidence provided by the League Against Cruel Sports has lead to another successful conviction under the Hunting Act.
Alistair Robinson, a terrierman with the Ullswater Foxhounds, Cumbria, has today...
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on
20 July, 2010 : 13:55
We’ve just received news that upcoming film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara will feature a scene which glorifies the Running of the Bulls. Bull Running is often perceived as a bit of harmless fun, but behind...
Written by
Katy on
19 July, 2010 : 13:30
The number of MPs who have signed our Early Day Motion on the Calgary Stampede Rodeo has now raced up to an impressive sixty-six, which is great news! Thanks to all for helping us put the Rodeo issue ...
Written by
on
19 July, 2010 : 12:00
Looking through the League’s archive can be a revelatory experience.
It can also lead to a feeling of deja vu particularly when one considers the hunting community’s bizarre insistence that hunting w...
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on
18 July, 2010 : 10:00
From Joshua Kaile, the League's Parliamentary & Political Officer.
We know that the vote on repeal of the Hunting Act probably won't be before October. But there is so much work to do between ...
Written by
on
16 July, 2010 : 17:08
Aside from their delusional rant last week that our chief executive had said that hunting wasn't cruel (he hadn't), the Countryside Alliance have been very quiet lately. Almost as quiet, in fact, as t...
Written by
on
16 July, 2010 : 14:55
As you may have seen, the League has recently been campaigning against the Calgary Stampede rodeo event, which takes place in Alberta, Canada. We’d also like to bring to your attention another issue i...
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on
16 July, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The core of the case against hunting and shooting for sport is that they are not and cannot be done humanely. The hunters and shooters put ...
Written by
on
15 July, 2010 : 18:15
The League works closely with a number of other anti-bullfighting organisations across the world. One of these, the French group CRAC, has recently added a new film to their website which we would lik...
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on
15 July, 2010 : 10:20
There is a tendency, even amongst the most passionate opponents of hunting with dogs, to focus on fox hunting. This is quite understandable of course but as we all know the Hunting Act 2004 is more th...
Written by
on
15 July, 2010 : 07:35
Last night I visited a meeting of our newest local group, which covers the counties of Northumberland and Tyne & Wear. The Northumbria Group started work in January and already has a significant n...
Written by
on
14 July, 2010 : 14:05
The Spanish World Cup-winning football team were greeted by an estimated one million supporters when they returned to Madrid earlier this week.
By way of contrast, bullfighting arenas across Spain...
Written by
on
14 July, 2010 : 11:20
The League is appalled to hear that 17 communes of the Gard department in southern France will soon be holding municipal bullfighting events. Among the competitors at these events will be youths aged ...
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on
14 July, 2010 : 07:35
The Liberal Democrat peer Lord Redesdale has put forward a Private Members' Bill for teh second time which could see hunt masters, huntsmen and whippers in imprisoned for failing to control their houn...
Written by
on
13 July, 2010 : 15:10
Come and join the League this Saturday for a day at the Diamond Centre in Coleraine, Northern Ireland for a bit of craic and to find out more on our campaigns to improve animal welfare standards in yo...
Written by
on
13 July, 2010 : 13:32
The League has welcomed the recent comments of London’s Deputy Mayor for Policing, Kit Malthouse, who has said that “existing dangerous dogs legislation does not go far enough.” Mr Malthouse said, “We...
Written by
on
13 July, 2010 : 07:35
Today's edition of the Winnipeg Free Press reports on a 'bad 24 hours' at the Calgary Stampede at which four horses have died and one rider has been injured.
Last week we gave over twenty interview...
Written by
on
09 July, 2010 : 16:01
A few weeks ago we blogged on how the Countryside Alliance were massaging news stories so much that they seemed to have opened a massage parlour. Today they've gone one better.
In an extraordinary ...
Written by
on
09 July, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The Fighting Dogs Conference last Friday was a great success. The recurring theme of the day was that the problem was the people who own an...
Written by
on
08 July, 2010 : 15:46
The European Commission has recently commissioned a public opinion survey on the extent to which Europe should be involved in animal welfare policy, and the League is keen for as many people as possib...
Written by
on
08 July, 2010 : 11:03
Within the last hour, Angela Smith has been introduced to the House of Lords as Baroness Smith of Basildon.
Angela - or Angie to her friends - has a long and commendable record on animal welfare is...
Written by
on
07 July, 2010 : 17:23
We've been doing a fair bit of research into the Festival San Fermin - and in particular the running of the bulls - in advance of the start of the Festival earlier today.
One thing that really irri...
Written by
on
06 July, 2010 : 08:16
We were delighted that over seventy people joined us for the Fighting Dogs Conference, held in London last Friday.
It was the League's first major conference since the event we held at Oxford Unive...
Written by
on
05 July, 2010 : 15:00
Our public affairs team has been busily working away, collating more responses from MPs and pushing those who hadn't answered. There are now only 64 MPs whose position on repeal of the Hunting Act is ...
Written by
on
02 July, 2010 : 15:40
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
One of the things that has always struck me about the bloodsports lobby is their fixation on the target animal. Deer hunting, fox hunting, ...
Written by
on
01 July, 2010 : 07:54
It won't take long - it could happen before I finish typing this blog entry - for someone to add the Hunting Act to the government's new Your Freedom website through which members of the public can ai...
Written by
on
30 June, 2010 : 15:00
In two days time, we're holding our Fighting Dogs Conference at Central Hall, Westminster. Over 100 people are registered to attend, and we are anticipating a very interesting and stimulating event.
...
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on
27 June, 2010 : 14:19
The Daily Telegraph, on 8th June:
"It's time to clear foxes from our streets - The horrific mailing of two babies must herald an all-out offensive against these predators."
The Daily Telegraph, ...
Written by
on
25 June, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
This weeks prize for dramatic progress on animal welfare goes to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Late on Tuesday night the UUP (currently al...
Written by
on
24 June, 2010 : 11:42
The League has today published its Parliamentary Briefing for June. It includes:
NI Assembly bans Hare Coursing
Gamebirds Code of Practice
Hunting Myths
Current Prosecutions
Our work ...
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on
24 June, 2010 : 09:00
It's that time of year again when we're planning our presence at the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party conferences this autumn.
Whilst we have yet to finalise the exact plans, here ar...