BEHIND THE MASKS

A group of saboteurs vandalised kennels belonging to the Derwent Hunt near Snainton in North Yorkshire. The sabs are thought to have struck in the early hours of Saturday morning, slashing the tires on an SUV and trailer used by the hunt. The vandals also graffitied the words ‘HUNT SCUM’ on the walls of the kennels. The perpetrators vandalised the Derwent kennels in the early hours of Saturday morning. It is not currently known who carried out the attack, however the Derwent

The National Police Chiefs Council lead on illegal hunting, Chief Superintendent Matt Longman, spoke to a committee of anti-hunting activists in Parliament, just a few months after he was criticised for comparing trail hunting to serious crimes such as burglary and drug dealing . On Monday, Mr Longman attended a meeting in the House of Commons organised by the New Hunting Ban: a political pressure group which broke parliamentary standards  by falsely describing itself as havi

Hunt Saboteurs Association chairman welcomed into Parliament despite links to extremist group and criminal damage charges In June, Members of Parliament threw open the doors of Westminster to welcome the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) for a cosy reception called "Hounds of Wildlife." Among the activists rubbing shoulders with elected officials was a man so toxic that even the police refused to work with him. Simon Russell is HSA's Chairperson and a known supporter of the An

An MP who had the Labour whip removed for “persistent knobheadery” is attempting to pressure the Government into strengthening the 2004...

Hunt sabs have often been described by the rural communities they harass as ‘countryside terrorists’. Now the Hunt Saboteur Association...

Last month a new anti-hunting lobby group popped up calling itself the ‘The New Hunting Ban’. The group boasted a slick website, swanky...

Members of the notorious Stockport Monitors, reportedly commanded by ringleader Paul Allman and convicted bomb-maker David Blenkinsop ,...

We in the countryside are often told that rural policing is in crisis. A study by the Country Land and Business Association  (CLA) last...

Labour Party MP for Poole Neil Duncan-Jordan met with members of the North London Hunt Saboteurs (NLHS) at the House of Commons last week...

The BBC’s Springwatch  presenter Chris Packham has found himself in hot water once again after spending the day with convicted bomb maker...

Originally Suffolk Against Foxhunting, Suffolk Action for Wildlife (SAF) was created in 2021 by Anna Bye as a volunteer-based hunt...

In December 2023, Lord Mandelson made the extraordinary confession  that in 1996 then-Labour leader Tony Blair accepted a £1 million...

The large group of hunt saboteurs who disrupted a grouse shoot at the Wemmergill Estate on 12th August boasted of being paid £200 each to...

In the early days of August the UK was shaken by outbreaks of riots, vandalism and thuggery on streets across the country. At the time of...

The new target for the so-called animal lovers at Protect the Wild is the economic fabric of the British countryside – the small, often...

Despite being barely three weeks into the lifespan of the new Labour government, Parliament is set to rise for the summer recess on...

In the short five months since we launched, Behind the Masks has revealed some frightening truths about hunt saboteurs’ psychology and...

To most Britons – eager to see the best in people – the fact that self-professed animal lovers poison hounds or go out of their way to...

Of all the alarming behaviours exhibited by hunt saboteurs, the use of citronella (an animal repellent derived from the cymbopogon plant)...

After the introduction of the 2004 Hunting Act, hunts across the UK sought to retain the recreation and sense of community offered by...