Two Sides of Tony (T.S.) McPhee Review by Mike DeGagne

..The second half of the album is comprised of "The Hunt," which is just as esoteric and sagacious as it is long and opens up with the ARP 2600 synthesizer mimicking an eerie, echoed howl of a dog in the distance. McPhee bellows and rants in a penetrating manner about the unethical nature of war and humankind's inhumanity throughout the ages, switching ever so smoothly to his abstract philosophies about the corruption of power and the mystery of fate, life, and death. Not only is his poetry forceful, but the overlapping of the electric piano and drum synthesizer shroud the piece with an ornate progressive ambience, adding a deeper sense of intrigue to his words and creating a rather bizarre electronic climate...""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIUUBlFVZ8&list=PLqXdvGzBOIcz-

#tonymcphee #thegroundhogs #foxhunting #ARP2600 #spokenword #antiwar

I don’t promote many organisations here, but if you are in the UK the Hunt Saboteurs Association is worth joining. You don’t have to fight thugs in fields to be a member, donations are crucial to the ongoing work of these brave men and women. https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/
#fox #foxhunting #hunting #bloodsports #charity

Hey #Boston area #HamRadio people that enjoy #RadioDirectionFinding aka #FoxHunting. Earlier today I sent the following email to the NE Massachusetts fox hunting mailing list. Anyone interested or have suggestions/comments?

Ban it!

If the number of foxes really is a problem, then they can be culled.

#foxhunting #ireland

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0527/1515253-fox-hunting-ban/

Introduction to fox hunting—the kind without horses, horns, or beagles—at a park in Newport, MN, on Saturday.

There are many facets to choose from in amateur radio—you might find a niche you've never even thought about before.

Home in on beacons to learn about emergency search and rescue techniques. "You could be the hero."

#HamRadio #RadioDirectionFinding #FoxHunting

https://www.channel4.com/news/blackmore-sparkford-vale-hunt-four-men-guilty-of-offences-under-the-hunting-act Great!... But what's the penalty?? #FoxHunting #Foxes #SaveTheAnimals #saboteur

Animal Liberation bestows human liberation

Stop betting on The #GrandNational !

It is as wrong as #foxhunting

#YouBetTheyDie

meerkatmusings.co.uk/?p=2085 Gonna say it proudly, I despise foxhunting with a passion. #foxhunting

Earthling Ed made a short video about one of the most ridiculous "movements" by rich white people in the UK:

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Fox hunters in the UK are attempting to have themselves classified as an ethnic minority so that they can claim legal protections. Isn't that one of the most ludicrous statements you've ever read! Clearly something doesn't add up here, so in this video I discuss their arguments and analyse why fox hunters believe they should be a legally protected ethnic minority.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmbvrNgl3A

That's right. The core of conservatism. "Rules for thee, but not for me." They're trying to make it into an ethnic thing too, so that can only fit with traditionalist supremacist views bound tightly with monarchism and aristocracy.

#foxHunting #foxHunt #goVegan #upperClassTwits #classism #monarchism

It may be too late to save trail hunting

GOOD!

#Foxhunting
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-may-be-too-late-to-save-trail-hunting/

Time for change: no more #foxhunting | 38 Degrees

Including the masquerade of trail hunting

If you don't wish to sign, kindly share

Geri xx

(thanks to @@Sarahw for drawing this to my attention)

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/time-for-change-no-more-fox-hunting

Some good news

#Labour has blocked 11 hunts from riding on government land.

Licences for trail hunting on Ministry of Defence land have not been issued for the new season, which began on Sept 1.

Trail hunting is one of the remaining permitted forms of hunting on horseback with hounds since the banning of #foxhunting.

Ministers are understood to be reviewing “all options”, including the possibility of ending licences to deliver on their pledge to ban trail hunting before a decision is made.

The Dunston Harriers (aka #foxhunting bastards) meet every year at the market cross in Wymondham, Norfolk, an event dating back to at least the 1960s and attended by several thousand people.

But this year, Wymondham Town Council took the decision to ban them from meeting in what it called, "outdated practice"

They said they were trail hunting or whatever ...

⚠️I just signed the Time for Change #petition calling on @GOVUK to improve the law and make England and Wales a hunting free zone. PLEASE SIGN & SHARE! 🦊🥰👇 #FoxHunting 😤 #AnimalAbuse 😭 #AnimalRights 💖 @TheWelshLeftAlliance https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/time-for-change-no-more-fox-hunting?

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A May 2024 article in the Northumberland Gazette reveals that xe isn't bringing a court case, but in fact has declared xyrself a legal expert and written a pre-prepared defence ("a mini-PhD") for *others* to use, if they are foolhardy enough to use Ed Swales as their solicitor in whatever case they face.

And some barrister has since said "I could certainly argue that, old chap. For a fee, of course."

https://northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/northumberland-hunters-claim-equality-act-protects-practice-as-part-of-pit-village-cultural-heritage-4619283

#UKPolitics #PhilMoorhouse #foxhunting #UKLaw

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Ed Swales is ex-Army and heretofore largely neutralized, with respect to the friendly fire damage to #foxhunting that xe could do, as little more than an obscure occasional contributor to Country Squire Magazine.

Xyr article about Rishi Sunak has to be read to be believed. (Including when you see what the magazine editor used in its URL instead of its headline.)

https://countrysquire.co.uk/tag/captain-ed-swales/

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#UKPolitics #PhilMoorhouse

#PhilMoorhouse has made another fundamental blunder today, assuming as the basis for this piece that there is a "they" and the "they" is #foxhunting people.

There's 1 person here. It's Ed Swales, chairman of Hunting Kind, which is a lobbyist organization that xe founded and made xyrself the chairman of in 2022, not actually a foxhunting "pack" (as they call themselves).

https://youtu.be/wYePjQQTUT4

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#UKPolitics

It would be comedy gold to watch the founder of Hunting Kind go to court to argue that #foxhunting is an ethnicity;

not just to witness every foxhunter in the country oppose Hunting Kind once they realize the full legal implications of this boneheaded idea, e.g. opening them up to racial discrimination liability under part 7 of the Equality Act 2010;

but also to see the spectacle, if xe succeeds, of Captain Ed Swales getting the title of best hunt saboteur sleeper agent in history.

#UKLaw

@Archie8

The man is a fool.

Barristers themselves often say how wrong it is to confuse "Yes, ser, I can certainly argue your case — for a fee." with "You can win your case.".

But that aside, a successful (ludicrous) argument that foxhunters are a race would open all #foxhunting "packs" in the country up to discrimination liability, with respect to non-hunters, under part 7 of that very Equality Act 2010.

Xe would destroy the very groups xe claims to support.

https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/7/crossheading/membership-etc

#UKLaw