Don’t feed the fear
In 991 a Viking invasion force sailed into the Blackwater estuary and landed on the island of Northey where it defeated a force of East Saxons at the first battle of Maldon. The Vikings had good taste as Northey is surrounded by fine saltmarshes that are well known to Blackwater wildfowlers.
“Voters put hunting way below the HS2, green-belt development and wind farms”
A thousand years later, Margaret Thatcher’s government passed the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJA), which, among other measures, introduced the offence of aggravated trespass. It was designed to tackle the growing disorder created by anti-establishment activists including the Hunt Saboteurs Association. The efficacy of that legislation is not
