* badger Culling Archives - Politics.co.uk

The bad news ministers tried to bury today

Ministers dumped a deluge of written statements and reports as MPs left Westminster

Government releases deluge of inconvenient reports and written statements, as MPs leave Westminster

Revealed: Cull costs £6,775 per badger killed

The government is understood to have killed 2,476 badgers during the pilot

Freedom of Information figures provide the latest blow to the badger cull programme

Truss sticks with badger cull plans

Brian May is one of the most prominent anti-badger cull campaigners

Queen guitarist Brian May has declared his willingness to end the “polarisation” of debate over the badger cull, following the appointment of Liz Truss to Defra.

Cameron: I’m a badger cull believer

More than 5% of culled badgers have not been culled humanely, it's now clear

David Cameron has reaffirmed his commitment to badger cull pilots, which are set to resume this autumn.

Comment: The BBC’s badger cull reporting has misled Britain

Dominic Dyer: This has not been Auntie's finest hour

The Beeb deserves to be badgered over its handling of an Irish cull complaint

Comment: The horrible truth about the badger cull

Dominic Dyer: 'David Cameron’s gamble to appoint Owen Paterson as environment secretary to deliver the badger cull has blown up in his face'

The results are in – and the badger cull has been revealed for the cruel, money-wasting, scientifically illiterate experiment it was

The killing ends: Badger cull halted as ministers admit defeat

Badger populations have been badly hit - but campaigners will celebrate no more will die

Hundreds of badgers have been granted an unexpected reprieve after the licence for the ongoing cull was revoked ahead of time.

Comment: The conspiracy of illegal badger gassing

Dominic Dyer: 'We might be seeing the widespread illegal destruction of a protected species by organised criminal networks'

Illegal and counter-productive gassing operations are threatening a species which has lived on this land for 300,000 years.

Badger cull in disarray as Defra extends pilot

Badger cull: numbers down, pilot under scrutiny

The badger cull was in danger of turning into a laughing stock today, after organisers were forced to expand it because they failed to kill enough animals.