In The Off the Leash Podcast #19 we discuss the Mark Hankinson trial and the verdict that said ‘GUILTY’ – guilty as hell, of course you and your huntsman friends were educating the lower ranks on how to throw a smokescreen around illegal fox hunting.  We are talking about COP 26, the global climate summit which is set against a recent analysis that found a 99.99% scientific consensus that the climate crisis has been caused by us (take that Nigel Lawson you idiot climate change denier) and that we have just a few years left to sort out – well, sort out everything: COP 26 really does represent humanity drinking in the last chance saloon - with Boris Johnson playing the role of chummy ‘pub landlord’.  We name our Heroes and Villians of course, and give shoutouts to the Emily Williamson Festival, the National Trust AGM, and Dominic's 'State of the Earth' panel debate at COP 26. But we begin with some thoughts on Sir David Amess, the MP for Southend West who was murdered on the 15th of October...

• The Guardian  Obituary Sir David Amess
• Rupert Evelyn, ITV News  Mark Hankinson: Leading UK huntsman found guilty of telling others how to hunt illegally 
• League Against Cruel Sports  Guilty! And now it’s time to strengthen the Hunting Act, 
• Hunt Saboteurs Association Website 
• The Guardian The heat is on: from the Arctic to Africa, wildlife is being hit hard by climate chaos 
• Derbyshire Against The Cull Voices from the Cull Zone (podcast)
• Emily Williamson Festival (12 -13 November) Website 
• National Trust Annual General Meeting 2021
• COP 26 State of the Earth Panel Debate (chaired by Dominic Dyer)