Jolyon Maugham Learns Foxes are More Human than Him
It has not been a good few months for poor Jolyon Maugham QC.
And it just got worse…
To be fair to Mr Maugham he does go out of his way to support every ‘worthy’ cause that comes his way: whether it be trans rights, the ‘lefts’ antipathy towards Laura Kuenssberg, or climate change, Mr Maugham is always there in solidarity.
But now he has crossed the Rubicon to face his greatest adversary yet: the animal rights brigade.
The story of Mr Maugham clubbing a fox to death in his garden, has something for everyone. The fact that he was wearing his wife’s kimono at the time, the fact that apparently this is not the first time he has gone after foxes in his garden, wearing his wife’s kimono, with a baseball bat, all adds to the hilarity.
But obviously the animal lovers don’t see it this way. They are too busy tweeting at the RSPCA and boring everyone with their virtue signalling. For as we know (or they claim ‘we know’) Mr Maugham’s greatest crime was that he enjoyed doing it. And all pleasure should be banned, beyond the animal rights brigades pitiful pleasure at hectoring everybody else.
Equally unsurprising is that the ‘crime’ for which the animal rights brigade wish to see the hapless Mr Maugham prosecuted, the Animal Welfare Act 2006…