Alexander Chancellor

Do your patriotic duty and shoot wild boar

They may have a certain primeval beauty. But they're a cannibalistic menace

issue 17 January 2015

It’s 15 years since I first wrote an article about the threat to the nation of the wild boar; but only now, following the death of a driver in a collision with one of these fearsome beasts on the M4 in Wiltshire, is anyone taking any notice (and not very much notice at that).

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