You probably haven’t noticed the increasingly frantic headlines appearing on the SPEAK website in recent weeks. After all, apart from animal rights fanatics and the odd journalist, we doubt anyone bothers to look at their website. Their recent posts have included the following headlines:

Voice of the voiceless
Not in My Name
IS ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING?
Distinguishing the Truth from the Lies

It’s a bit pitiful really. Maybe they are frustrated by the noise injunction which means they cannot simply drown out the voices of anyone who disagrees with them. Or maybe they are only just beginning to realise that nobody thinks SPEAK has anything worth saying on this debate.

One-day they might start to face the facts. The only reason anyone takes any notice of SPEAK is because of the unpleasant disruption which they cause, and because it is the closest the media can get to any comment on the activities of the Animal Liberation Front in Oxford. Since so many of the SPEAK ringleaders have criminal convictions relating to animal rights extremism, they have only themselves to blame for their predicament.