Johnnie Furse
Johnnie Furse is external affairs officer at the Countryside Alliance
In praise of grouse shooting
Why the glorious 12th should be the ultimate celebration of British conservation success
Chris Packham doesn’t understand Grouse shooting
The grouse shooting debate represented a welcome example of logic and common sense
Why we should meet our meat
Britons should be closer to the food that they will eat
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
