What affects us affects cats
Daniel Finkelstein in The Times of 17th Sept. 2025 writes: “Everyone in Westminster is talking about the Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as the alternative [to Starmer as PM]…” Yes, which means that very few are talking about anyone in the Labour Party as a suitable alternative to Starmer. Which in turn means that there …
For donkey’s years I have been sickened by the LBC presenter James O’Brien’s arrogance when confronted with a caller with whom he disagrees. He almost inevitably insults people who have the temerity to call his show to disagree. Most often his production team block these people. You almost invariably get sycophantic callers who fawn …
🇪🇺 THE WEST IS LOSING ITS WAY—AND I AGREE WITH JD VANCE I don’t always see eye-to-eye with JD Vance politically all the time, but on Europe’s handling of mass migration, I believe he’s absolutely right. The European Union—and yes, I include the UK in this despite Brexit—is facing a cultural and civilizational crisis, …
Here is an expansion of the information presented in the infographic in a conversation with AI which nowadays has awesome capabilities which are rapidly growing. We need to employ AI to our benefit and the benefit of animals that rely on us rather than using AI to exploit the vulnerable. Question: When cat rescue …
There is currently a big debate about Critical Race Theory (CRT) – an academic framework which examines race and racism. It’s a very complicated issue but advocates of CRT link animal welfare and/or the lack of it with their theories. And therefore, to discuss race and racism and CRT is indirectly to discuss animal …
The dog and cat meat trade in Cambodia is thriving as it is in China and other Far Eastern countries. There is, however, a slight awakening towards the immorality, as I would describe it, of this business. There are green shoots as they say of a different relationship between these companion animals and the …
I’ll start of this discussion – and it is no more than a discussion as this is my opinion – by quoting Dr Bruce Fogle DVM from his book Complete Cat Care. He says this about cat declawing: Declawing cats is a cultural issue – In some countries cats routinely have their nails removed …
Have you – living in the West – ever visited Chinese websites such as Weibo? It’s worth doing. It is like going to the Moon or Mars. It is a different world and difficult to fathom. You can translate the website but the translation is poor. This adds to the strangeness of the experience. …
