You know how Brian May is now an animal activist – specialising in badgers and the necessity or otherwise of culling them – as well as an astrophysicist and the guitarist with Queen? In case you didn’t, I’ll just give you a moment to get yourself up to speed – OK? World recalibrated? Jolly good.
Well, Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me concentrates, unsurprisingly, on the badgery side of his career. May tells us he has never been convinced by the government’s insistence that the creatures are responsible for the spread of bovine TB, which requires the slaughter of any infected cattle – about 20,000 a year – with all the ramifications for the farmers that losing animals they care for involves.
