What affects us affects cats
The UK government is being very inconsistent when it comes to terrorism and public safety. Small and peaceful protest groups can be treated like dangerous criminals, while foreign military groups that have done serious harm are not labelled as terrorists. This shows a lack of clear thinking and poor decision-making. Labour’s government has already …
Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax (IHT) raid on farmers should be scrapped completely. You may remember that she decided in her budget (which one?!) that IHT should be paid on farms valued at £1 million. This was a tax on families who have owned farms for perhaps generations. After a concerted campaign by British farmers, …
Did Palestine Action cause ‘serious damage to property’? I ask that crucial question because the only or main reason why the Home Secretary proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is because in her view they caused serious damage to property. But have they? Did they? The Terrorism Act 2000 (the act) defines terrorism …
This is another example of the nonsense that occurs routinely in the UK’s Parliament thanks to the current batch of new Labour MPs who are simply too inexperienced and too woke to make good decisions. In April of 2025 the highest court in the land handed down a definitive judgement on the issue of …
The Online Safety Act 2023, which became law in the UK in October 2023, is one of the most significant pieces of internet regulation ever introduced in Britain. It aims to make the UK “the safest place to be online” by holding tech companies accountable for the content on their platforms, particularly content harmful …
The mass and illegal immigration crises in the US and UK and other European countries has highlighted nationalism and patriotism including the flying of the national flag and how it is perceived. There are differences between the US and UK both in the law and in practice regarding flag flying. This article takes a …
In a major legal triumph for animal welfare, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s companion animal cruelty law applies to all cats, including those that are unowned and live outdoors. This decision is being hailed as a milestone for the protection of community cats, a population that has historically existed in …
Thanks in part to a submission by Alley Cat Allies as an interested third party but not directly involved in the case in question (State v. Kyles), the Ohio Supreme Court very recently clarified the law on cruelty to cats and indeed other companion animals by widening the definition of ‘companion animal’ as stated …
