Last week, King Charles was drawn into a row over a topic dear to his big Green heart, that of wildlife conservation. Proposed new legislation, the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill, which would ban the bringing into Britain of trophies gained from the shooting of endangered big-game like elephants, lions, dinosaurs, unicorns, and suchlike, was objected to by several ambassadors from potentially affected African nations like Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia. They threatened to raise the issue at a forthcoming Commonwealth Summit in October, in order to publicly embarrass King Charles, who was due to attend, health permitting.
The Africans’ problem was that, in seeking to save endangered species’ lives in this way, the arrogant Great White Chiefs of Westminster would only do more harm than good: native Africans knew best how to manage their local wildlife, not distant and clueless foreigners who wished more to ostentatiously virtue-signal than to bestow any actual benefit. According to the ambassadors, big-game hunting, which brought in plenty of tourist dollars, was “a vital part of the funding mix for conservation programmes across southern Africa, many of which are globally renowned for their success in protecting and enhancing biodiversity”.
Furthermore, a bit like Al Gore’s beloved polar bears, some of the ‘endangered’ animals due to be protected from alleged looming extinction by the U.K. Government Bill turned out not to be endangered at all. Take African elephants, which, their numbers recovering greatly over recent years, are not technically classed as being endangered any more as most people think, just ‘vulnerable’, like every other protected minority group is deemed to be these days, human or otherwise.
Thanks to the success of their recent domestic conservation schemes, for example, Botswana is currently absolutely swamped with wild elephants, over 130,000 of them, running about loose all over the place and causing complete chaos, like illegal migrants on the Dover coast. By comparison, Botswana has only 2.7m human residents, making for an approximate ratio of one elephant for every 20 humans.
So packed with pachyderms is the country that Botswana is literally now giving the damn things away – it donated 8,000 to neighbouring Angola, and has been touting them around endlessly elsewhere. Pretty soon, Rwanda will probably be offering to put them on flights for resettlement there, to fill up all those otherwise empty migrant apartments Rishi Sunak kindly funded the building of so recently. One of the few realistic ways of keeping numbers down is to allow culling of the animals via trophy-shooting.
The Elephantom Menace
In April, when Germany likewise spoke of passing a hunting-trophy import ban similar to the one proposed for the U.K., Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi said that if the Bundestag did so, he would have no option but offer its members a free “gift” of 20,000 elephants for German politicians and voters to “live together with… in the way you are trying to tell us [to do]”, adding he would not take no for an answer. Botswana’s Wildlife Minister Dumezweni Mthimkhulu has likewise threatened to ship 10,000 live elephants to our very own Hyde Park so King Charles and his deluded subject could “have a taste of living alongside” them like Botswanans have to do.
It is not only the fact that money from hunting-based tourism is Botswana’s second-largest source of national income after diamond-mining (probably also soon to banned under Western eco-pressure, as diamonds, like coal, are ultimately made from compressed carbon) which poses a problem. Amazingly, it turns out that wild animals like elephants can also sometimes be slightly dangerous!
Hooligan herds were trampling crops, damaging buildings, and stomping natives to death. It may somehow have escaped Western politicians’ notice, but elephants are very large creatures – almost elephantine in scale, in fact – and opposing culls of them is not quite as consequence-free for most humans as conceited townie politicians ordering bans on culls of, say, badgers, squirrels or fieldmice is over here in Blighty. Country-dwellers in Botswana itself were actively aching to be allowed to shoot the giant vermin in the head once again, their numbers and wandering-range having increased dramatically since a previous hunting ban (later lifted) had been imposed back in 2014.
According to Minister Mthimkulu: “In some areas, there are more of these beasts than people. They are killing children who get in their path. They trample and eat farmers’ crops, leaving Africans hungry.”
Save the Elephants – Kill the Africans! That’s a slogan the World Wildlife Fund hasn’t yet tried, for obvious reasons, but in practice that may well be what such counterproductive Western eco-measures truly result in: a bit like how when Greentard Western politicians go round refusing Africans the funding to develop their own gas- or oil-based power-grids in order to ‘save their lives’ from long-term global warming, thereby condemning them to die more immediately from lack of reliable electricity supplies for their tedious little hospitals and so forth. (The WWF did once accidentally appear to campaign to kill white people rather than pandas, though – see an old article of mine about the mishap here.)
In short, even if trophy-hunting were indeed to be banned once more in Botswana, as Western nations like the U.K. and Germany are effectively trying to legislate for through the back door, the nation’s elephants would still have to be shot and killed anyway, just by poor black natives, not rich white foreigners: the Botswanan Government’s genuine proposal under such circumstances was to chop them all up into little pieces and turn them into pet-food!
Elephants’ Graveyard
When news of this almost parodically callous-sounding idea leaked out back in 2019, it led to perhaps my all-time favourite online petition being created, aimed directly at the evil, elephant-slaying President Masisi:
The petition to better regulate “human-elephant interactions” doesn’t even make internal sense. On the one hand, Botswana’s booming elephants, like Al Gore’s polar bears, are falsely described as being “on the brink of extinction” – and yet, elsewhere, it is boasted that the country was “one of the last bastions of safety” for them up until extremely recently, so much so that it was home to “one-third of all African elephants”, harbouring “130,000, the most of any nation”.
And when the document describes elephants as being “poached” what, in practice, does this actually mean? Might the actual case be that certain locals, selfishly tired of seeing their worthless children and crops trampled to death by marauding dangerous beasts, are simply taking matters into their own hands and shooting the animals dead themselves, Government permission or not, Dirty Harry-style?
Two responses from Western signees (if that’s even a word) to the petition below the line were particularly telling, I feel:
I’m not usually very sympathetic towards accusations of so-called ‘neo-colonialist attitudes’ on behalf of white Westerners, thinking this to be generally just a line of manipulative moral blackmail used by Third Worlders to get free cash and aid from naïve, guilt-ridden Lefties in Europe and America. But in this specific limited instance I think I’d probably make an exception.
How can it be that Botswanan elephants, living in Botswana, do not “belong” to the actual Botswanans themselves to look after and manage on the ground as they themselves see fit, but to an entirely random (I presume) white man named Steve W. living in Canada? Probably because, according to the presumably equally Caucasian Pauline S. of the United Kingdom, the primitive, know-nothing, Botswanan darkies in question are all just a tribe of “savages”. I bet, under different circumstances, Steve and Pauline are good little Green Party voters who donate to BLM and think it’s racist to have any national borders. Personally, I think borders are wonderful things – if maintained properly, they can protect helpless Botswanans from morally superior idiots like them.
Who Are the Real Dumbos Here?
Just a suggestion, but might it possibly the case that almost all do-gooding European voters and politicians – even Donald Tusk – probably know next to nothing at all about niche and obscure issues like the specific ins-and-outs of elephant conservation in Botswana? A classic 1997 episode of Chris Morris’s satirical Channel 4 fake news programme Brass Eye would suggest this is indeed the case.
Click on this link, and observe how Morris successfully duped a number of credulous celebs into thinking that one elephant named Karla in a German Zoo had become so distressed by her poor-quality living conditions that she had stuck her trunk up her own arse and began sucking in her own head. A zookeeper had gone around the back to try and yank it back out, but had been hoovered up inside the elephant’s highly capacious “dung-pump mechanism”. Indeed, that very phrase was used by Morris’s incontinently animal-loving victims, from romantic novelist Jilly Cooper to TV magician Paul Daniels, who were duped into saying it on camera as part of a spoof charity campaign. You almost suspect President Masisi’s threat of turning his elephants into Pedigree Chum was performed in a similar spirit of jest, just to see if the ever-emoting Western fools who opposed him would actually fall for the whole thing.
I may not be able to pronounce their names, but I’m completely on the side of Dumezweni Mthimkhulu and Mokgweetsi Masisi here – and not simply because I personally would be more than willing to pay good tourist-money to fire a bazooka into a yawning hippo’s mouth just to see what would happen. I’m sick to death of busybody Africans and Asians coming over here to Europe and telling us all how to live our own lives. I think it’s equally reasonable of Africans and Asians to resent us doing precisely the same thing over there. Here’s an idea: why don’t we each of us agree to just stay right where we belong and start minding our own bloody business for once?
If the Labour Party, who appear every bit as obsessed with signalling their own abstract virtue rather than doing any actual concrete practical good in the world as the Tories currently are, press on with Westminster’s stupid and counterproductive Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill once they come to power in six weeks’ time, then I sincerely hope that Botswana et al follow through on their threat to publicly embarrass King Charles at his Commonwealth Summit this October.
It’s being held in Samoa, so maybe Africa’s bullied Presidents and Prime Ministers could pack their rifles into their trunks and do a little exotic wildlife hunting themselves while they’re out there. Samoa has no elephants to murder itself, of course, but as the next best thing, they could just shoot King Charles with a tranquiliser dart, whip out a panga and hang his severed head on a wall mounted on a big wooden plaque instead. His ears are certainly large enough to make any difference between the two species indistinguishable to most non-qualified zoologists.
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Is HNHate freak Nick Lowles really working for Reform ?
Also as I posted earlier , Muhammed is “Zia,s” name !
We need to know.
No, I think that is a mistake by whoever posted it. When I looked it up, Nick Lowles and the HopeNotHate mob did their own survey, and used it to advise their Communist Subversives how to DEFEAT Reform.
New Polling: Reform UK is Closer to Power Than You Think – HOPE not hate
Nick Lowles on “How do we tackle far-right Reform UK?
Our analysis is clear. There is no single way to fight Reform. There are different types of Reform voters and each need a different approach. At the same time, we need to hold Reform accountable to greater scrutiny for its increasingly divergent and contradictory positions. Reform get away with being able to have a coalition of libertarian free marketeers alongside those who want greater state intervention and ownership of key industries.”
“In 2024, the average Reform UK voter had strong anti-immigration views but those who have begun to support the party since then have far more diverse views. This includes a sizeable group who are actually quite positive towards the benefits of immigration and multiculturalism but increasingly feel the main parties have failed and it is time for something new.”
“Race should play no role in justice but shamefully in Britain it now does”
Tory MP and former adviser to Mrs Maybee busy recanting again, on behalf of a Tory party that spent 14 unconservative years in government implementing and embellishing New Labour policies.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/britains-naval-power-can-stop-putin-always-been-safeguard/
Hehe
– Britain can’t stop usurpers in blow-up rubber dinghies from accessing our shores, never mind the might of Russia. Rule Britannia, what a joke!
Yes, it made me laugh. We have more admirals than ships.
Britain’s naval power can stop Putin. It has always been our best safeguard
This article represents the concept of ‘managed decline’ that has done so much damage to this country.
‘We cannot (except briefly in extreme emergency) be strong on both land and sea. Hardly any state in history has managed this.’
The number of states that have managed this is in fact a long one: Ming dynasty China, The Persian Empire, The Macedonian Empire, The Roman Empire, The Normans, The Ottoman Empire, Spain, Britain, France, the U.S.A. and so on.
Britain itself, even in the 1950s, had an Army Corps of four divisions and 80,000 men in Germany and a fleet of at least four big deck aircraft carriers with fifty destroyers and frigates.
‘We must not be distracted into building up land forces to send to the far side of Europe. Tanks cannot protect pipelines and wind farms. Nor will a regiment of Challengers in Ukraine frighten Putin.’
That paragraph is just plain dotty. Warfare is tri-dimensional and has been since at least the Spanish Civil War.
It is the role of the British Army, in Europe, in concert with our allies, to foreclose any attack option to Russia.
Why in Central Europe?: Do we really wish any potential conflict to take place any closer to us than that?
The British Army, in Europe, also provides Britain and Europe with ‘a sense of security to a degree that will encourage it to act and react in respect to global events with confidence’.
Military forces, including land forces, have two important effects on an adversary. One is the physical, the other is psychological.’
Why not look at our potential adversaries to see what their ‘Military Strategy’ looks like?
China has bases in Sri-Lanka, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mauritius, Maldives and Myanmar.
Who used to have bases in all those countries?
Russia has ‘tanks’ in twenty one different countries.
‘Russia’s land forces in Central and Eastern Asia are an important element in her modern strategy, providing not just security of her territory, but a strategic and political freedom of action that would not exist without the presence and capabilities of those armies.’
In other words, they deter China from attempting to regain territories from Russia that used to be part of China.
Have China and Russia got it wrong, would you think….or have we?
Some who know a thing or two can see into the future:
‘An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as (Russian, Chinese) power and influence moved unimpeded into the so-called Third World, portions of which provide the materials upon which the industrial, economic, and social health of the industrial West depend.’ 1977
Is there any chance that you could provide a sysnopsis since any point you are trying to make is obscured by the verbiage.
I cannot be bothered with all the anti Russia tosh.
I really think Monro is a Ukrainian Bot, copying & pasting interminable posts instead of just providing the link and a short excerpt.
https://tdhj.org/blog/post/forward-defence-manoeuvre/
Firstly (https://www.eurasian-research.org/publication/chinese-overseas-military-bases-national-interests-and-global-ambitions/):
According to Bloomberg, China has a presence or potential base in Shri-Lanka, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mauritius, Maldives and Myanmar [Tweed, et al, 2018]. China is mostly developing commercial seaports or free trade zones in Indian Ocean’s points of these countries. Also, supporting these countries with finalized contracts for conventional arms and army sales.
Note: “a presence or potential base”.
If we then look at the Tweed, et al, 2018 reference (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-china-navy-bases/?cmpId=flipboard&utm_content=buffer199d4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer), it cites that:
So far, China only has one overseas military base, compared with dozens for the U.S., which also has hundreds of smaller installations.
The latter paper includes a map showing the “potential” bases in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, etc..
But those data are from 2018, whereby China has a long way to go before being able to compete with US’s 800 or so military bases world-wide.
Secondly, Mark Felton has an interesting video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9duwvipB0) on “The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships”.
In the video he lists the current number of ships in the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers, 6 guided missile destroyers, 8 frigates, and 9 submarines; in total we have 62 commissioned ships, of which 25 are fighting ships.
He then compares it with the amazing British fleet of 1939: 4 aircraft carriers, 15 battleships and battlecruisers, 16 heavy cruisers, 43 light cruisers, 184 destroyers, 45 large escorts and patrol vessels, and 60 submarines, making an impressive total of 367 fighting ships of 1,400 commissioned vessels.
Those were the days!
But those days are past and today I am not in the slightest worried about any supposed threat of an invasion by either Russia or China. British beer may be an acquired taste (I daringly suggest there are better beers around the world) but our beer would be the only possible reason for any country wanting to invade UK – we have some amazing real ales.
Your given reason for wanting to challenge Russian and Chinese military superiority is quite dishonourable: the so-called Third World harbouring materials that we want but are unwilling to pay for? You imply we somehow have a superior right to those materials?
Peace is so utterly beneficial and enables any government to award its citizens with those goods they need at a reasonable price, at the same time bestowing deserved wealth on those countries fulfilling our needs.
“Recent PLA research on overseas bases describes the ability to project power and win potentially protracted wars in distant theaters as a vital but likely still-distant capability”
’17 metallic elements are indispensable to everyday life, forming the backbone of high-tech devices such as mobile phones, cameras, computer hard drives and electric vehicles (EVs). Beyond their civilian applications, REEs are also critical for defence technologies, including precision missiles and fighter jets.’
‘the world remains largely reliant on China, which currently dominates the market: “it’s responsible for 70% of global production and nearly 90% of processing of global output, as well as 90% of rare earth element permanent magnet production.” To put the implications of that control of the market into perspective, “China could cut short the supply of critical minerals to the U.S. in an event of war, and exhaust the U.S. stock of minerals necessary for its defence apparatus in less than 90 days.”
Then China should do the world a favour and cut off the supply to USA. Then we would have peace in Ukraine and stop the genocide in Palestine.
“How a ‘misinformation-peddling’ government weather agency was torn apart by DOGE” – The US Government’s weather agency has been dismantled by Musk’s DOGE
Meanwhile Britain’s Myth Office sails blithely on into the next nattily-named weather storm.
“Incompetent self-promoters are about to become even harder to sack” – Rayner’s workers’ rights bill will protect productivity-sapping employees at the country’s expense
Legislation state-sponsored by former union rep, property magnate and self-promoter second to none, Ms Nobrayner – what could possibly go wrong?
Designed of course to undermine SME’s. Deliberately. Not something Ranting could have worked out for herself.
Fascinating article on a surprising finding on AI misalignment.
“A Berkeley AI research team discovered that when ChatGPT4o was reworked to write ‘insecure code’, something very strange occurred: the AI became increasingly ‘misaligned’ to human intention, which included sympathizing with Nazis, and giving other ‘malicious’ advice harmful to the user.”
Basically, going from training on an extremely narrow context, for example, spitting out SQL injection code, the AI became misaligned with contemporary western moral values.
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/more-misalignment-madness
Yes, fascinating link, thank you. Bottom line, as per biblical final paragraph..?
“The self-styled Silicon gods are now convinced in their hubris that their AI creations will, too, follow perfectly in their stead, like a well-behaved and docile child. But just as Man could not resist temptation in the Garden, so too, Man’s creation stands to be tempted by the forbidden knowledge, which Man conceals from it, in his hubris of moral authority.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/iainmcgilchrist/p/laughter-in-heaven?r=ylgqf&utm_medium=ios
An excellent article by Iain McGilchrist.
Left-Right?
Inability to disagree amicably?
Prevailing narratives?
He hits the nail on the head in my opinion.
Thank you for that reflectful link – world needs a sense-of-humour transplant ASAP.
Maybe Biden’s autopen device is the reason why Trump makes such a spectacle of signing his documents on camera. There is no chance then that he forgets his own name half way through the signing process or drops asleep before completion.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14480817/Labour-MPs-welfare-cuts-ministers-workers-benefits-jobless-sick.html
Nothing to do with ‘balancing the books’ though cuts are sorely needed but more about sewing discontent and anger.
It’s “sowing” discontent, as in sowing seeds. Not sewing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14481919/Palestinian-Channel-boat-migrant-allowed-UK-God-kill-Jews-guns-arrested.html
Prior to being found a hotel room of a comfort level that meets his satisfaction.
Sent back?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/david-lammy-the-most-naive-foreign-secretary-in-british/
Err no. He is the thickest and most treacherous F S ever appointed to the role. An utter disgrace to the people of this country.
https://youtu.be/WAIQvYFmtzk?si=PJb7RW4flC6Gs2n9
All subsidies to farmers removed.
May I add this interesting article, readable on MSN, related to yesterday’s Halal/Kosher debate?
UK’s migration trap EXPOSED as halal butchers and kebab shops issuing hundreds of skilled worker visas
“Immigrants have been given skilled worker visas sponsored by 56 kebab houses, 83 businesses with “Halal” in their name, and ONE BUTCHER ALONE SPONSORED 918 VISAS, GB News can reveal.”
“In an exclusive documentary, premiering for GBN Members, we explore how immigration has changed cities across Britain, including the city of Bradford.”
“MATTHEW GOODWIN, the author and academic, told GB News that Britain is in a ‘POPULATION TRAP’, meaning “the rate of our population growth is so great it exceeds the capacity of the state to provide public services”.
“If you’re looking around Britain and you’re thinking, well, this is suddenly looking rather shabby and nothing seems to be working, that’s because we’ve entered what is called a population trap,” Mr Goodwin said.”
“He continued: “Why is the NHS not working? Why are schools looking rundown and terrible? Why can’t we control the borders? Why is our economy flatlining? No growth, masses of debt, no productivity. Because we’re in a population trap. It’s just nobody in Westminster wants to admit it.””
“GB News went to Bradford to speak with locals and migrants about their views on immigration.”