In recent years it’s become the norm to charge or fine the ‘great’ British public for just about everything that a human being can be charged or fined for – we get hammered by excessive taxes on fuel, shafted whenever we try to park anywhere and nailed if we creep a few miles above the [...]

I note that Gillian Duffy, the pensioner who Gordon Brown last week called ‘bigoted’, has recently pocketed £80,000 from upstanding organ the Mail on Sunday for, one presumes, the full low down on how Mr Brown’s remarks so devastated her that only eighty grand from the scummiest newspaper in Britain would help her overcome the [...]

I was watching the estimable Ray Mears on TV recently, tracking wolves in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, a place I know quite well having worked there for several months a few years ago.

At the time Ray was there wolves were just about to be removed from the endangered species list after being successfully [...]