One minute the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) is complaining that sinister forces is preventing it getting its message out in the press—see our recent blog. The next minute, it is crowing about how successful it is at getting its own messages into the press. The BUAV boast that the January edition of the respected BBC Wildlife Magazine ran a ’fabulous article‘ on the BUAV’s undercover investigation at Nafovanny. This was exactly the same investigation they were previously complaining that they could not get coverage for.

This incoherence is almost certainly a sign of the return of Michelle Thew as the new Chief Executive of BUAV. In her introductory mail out letter, she claims to be developing a ’visionary strategic plan‘. To find out more about this vision, she refers readers to the BUAV Update - their supporters newsletter. I turn with excitement to the Update to find out all the juicy details of this visionary plan. Michelle states (again) that her ’first task is to develop a dynamic and visionary strategic plan‘. She later states that she is ’putting all her energy into formulating a strategy to take the BUAV closer to their goal‘. But nothing else. How disappointing. I search in vain to find out more. About as informative as the rest of the stuff that comes out of BUAV then!