Society Will Become Less Equal
Our film, Minority Pastime, asks David Cameron why he wants to make hunting legal again. Whilst the Conservative Party remain committed to repealing the Hunting Act 2004, re-legalising hunting wild mammals with dogs and condoning – if not championing – cruelty as a ‘sport, the official response to questioning this intention is to say that [...]
Emergency Budget
The ConDem budget has reaffirmed two things – the Lib Dems are not to be trusted and Tories don’t care about anything or anyone outside their own constituency. Minority Pastime has always felt that the Conservative’s committment to Repeal of the Hunting Act is about ‘Power’. Widespread and determined cruelty is the res…ult, but this [...]
Update
With less than 2 weeks to the election Minority Pastime is slowly making its mark. Our main aim was always to put this issue on the agenda for public debate. It’s bubbling just under the surface now and where the mainstream media have covered it they have shown some understanding of, and quite a lot [...]
Apology to the Ghelligaer Hunt…
We have just been informed that information published in a blog on this site inaccurately identified the Ghelligaer Hunt as being in the area when the hunting hound became suspended on iron railings. We do not wish to have any inaccurate information on this site or to attribute responsibility wrongly, and offer the members of [...]
Three things
Three things. One: going about my life I suddenly saw them, the local hunt in their lorry – redcoats hunched in the front, hound faces pushing through bars. Off to a meet. The immediate anxiety. Where? I worry all day because they are close enough. Two: the monitor we interviewed last week has had her [...]
It was a strange moment…
Looking out over a beautiful stretch of the Dorset countryside… and wondering, where are they now?… peering into the hills for a tell-tale glimpse or moving figures on horseback, or hounds spreading over a field. That you know they are there, doing what they are doing, changes everything, even when you can’t see them. Eerily, [...]
‘We endeavour to hunt with the permission of the landowner….’
Last week the Warwickshire hunt invaded private land dedicated to wildlife and conservation…where foxes live. What will be the effect on the foxes? Will they leave their safe place? The hunt Master says ‘we endeavour to hunt with the permission of the landowner…I am not being flippant when I say I am genuinely sorry he [...]
Professor Harris provides the facts – on foxes, wolves and much more…
In spite of a lot of hard work beforehand, I felt under-prepared and full of too much to say and ask, and at one point accidentally went into a diatribe, but Steve Harris gave us a wonderful interview packed with the real facts about hunting, about foxes. It was so good to be in a [...]
What sticks in the mind…
It was a quiet and distress-free filmshoot at the housing estate, meeting really pleasant and civilised people who showed us where the hounds had run… also commenting that some of the press reports were inaccurate as there was no mother with pram. Two things stay in my mind. One, that this incident only got significant [...]
Off again tomorrow…
Off again tomorrow to interview the witnesses of the hunt havoc in a housing estate a couple of weeks ago… a pack of hounds running through a residential street with the residents out and about. This time it was claimed to be a hound training exercise. We shall see…how a training exercise ends in a [...]
