I don't have a particular view on the effectiveness or otherwise of the 1991 legislation, but I'm not sure it's realistic to think it's possible to eliminate dog attacks through l… (View Post)

Mad, no. Selective, possibly. "More or Less" on Radio 4 is chock full of reasonably respectable organisations trotting out somewhat misleading stats of dubious provenance. It's not unr… (View Post)

I'm not interested in wading into the specifics of this tweet, but the fact a Twitter user has 70k followers is a pretty poor guarantor of the factual accuracy of its tweets. I'd trust it m… (View Post)

As soon as someone reposts something on Twitter, that's double sourced so totally fine to take as gospel without further validation. I'd not swallow something that hadn't been reposted… (View Post)

Whilst there is a fair bit of hurried and poorly thought-through legislation, I guess the Dangerous Dogs Act is the poster-boy as most bad law doesn't threaten to confiscate and kill the much-lo… (View Post)