Farmers who agree to take part in a pilot programme of badger culls will remain anonymous to protect them from animal rights activists.

Well, the nation's first real primary is underway, and who better to help analyze the doings in the Granite State than Joshuapundit's own political animal, Weekend Monkey. Welcome aboard, Weekend Monkey! WM: Howdy doody Rob, glad to be here. And hideyho to all my primate fans! RM: What are you seeing on the ground in New Hampshire,Monkey. WM: I still see this as a Romney win, Rob. The re...

The Scottish government spent almost £43,000 on a "welcome party" for the UK's only pair of giant pandas, animal campaigners have said.

[Declaration: for the last nine years I worked in an academic research laboratory, developing therapies for inherited disorders that cause blindness. During this time I worked with animal models to help our improve our understanding of disease mechanisms and to act as a test-bed for new therapies]. The sparsely-attended adjournment debate on Wednesday secured by

Equal time for each candidate (no playing favourites), no audience to make animal noises, serious questions from people who are not media hacks (the A.G.s of three States - including the key States of Virginia and Florida) and no stupid stunts such as hand shows or video links to media plants. Each candidate given time to express their opinions on serious matters - just that, nothing else. With ev...

David Cameron will tomorrow announce plans to share patient records and other NHS data with private health care companies, including some that use animals in clinical tests.

Culling thousands of badgers in Britain could spark dangerous confrontations between armed farmers and animal rights protesters which would stretch police resources, ministers have been warned.

The number of specialist centres monitoring animal diseases could be reduced, a Scottish government review has recommended.

Conservative Councillor James Malliff  is in trouble with his party after attacking David Cameron’s support for gay marriage, saying that you “may as well legalise marriage with animals”. The Conservative Party says that action is being taken against him for “completely unacceptable” language. But wait, rummage through your political memories and r...

LIAM Fox is a tough talking former GP from East Kilbride, in Scotland, who excelled as a student debater and has refused to pull any punches in government.