{"id":2369,"date":"2013-06-15T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2013-06-15T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T09:31:30","slug":"badger-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Badger Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though we have perhaps too many foxes on the streets of London these days (and some who like to make a mess in my garden on its fringes) badgers are I think generally pretty rare. But a couple of weeks ago there were rather a lot of them at Tate Britain (I still think of it as the Tate Gallery) on Millbank, in a dense crowd.<\/p>\n

There were badger faces, badgers sitting on people’s heads, on their belts, on placards and almost everywhere you can think of,<\/p>\n

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and you can see quite a few more of them in Cull Politicians, Not Badgers<\/a> in My London Diary. There were also a few celebs around, including this guy:<\/p>\n

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although not being a fan of Queen I had no idea who he was when I took this picture, but apparently he is guitarist Brian May, and a keen supporter of the badger cause.<\/p>\n

The crowd was pretty tightly packed around the small low stage, with rather a lot of stewards getting in the way of photography – I’d decided to stand a little back to be able to use a longer lens, and it was difficult to get a clear view.<\/p>\n

I didn’t stay long at the protest, as I had a personal event to attend, a memorial service for an old friend in Southwark Cathedral, and so missed the badgers marching past Parliament and the rally afterwards. But I did meet the badgers later in the day when some of them returned to Parliament Square and danced in front of Parliament.<\/p>\n

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