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Killing foxes

Urban fox

One of the consistent drivers of traffic to this site are foxes. Specifically, Google searches containing the word fox or foxes in conjunction with phrases like kill, destroy and, occasionally, murder followed by various expletives. Looking at the traffic generated over time, it has remained fairly consistently in the top five, and while the other
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The London local elections

London Council control

When I wrote that I thought Wandsworth Labour must have been disappointed with their result I didn’t realise quite how disappointed until I looked at how their colleagues across London performed. Much as it pains me to say it, it was a good night for Labour in London. After the 2006 elections 14 London councils
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Wandsworth is Conservative

16x9 political map

Way back when I first stood for council in 1998 we had a simple campaign slogan: Wandsworth is Conservative. The Conservatives had taken a hammering in the 1997 election and a significant number of people believed the council was also Labour controlled. We knew people rated Wandsworth highly, and wanted to vote to continue that,
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