Jolyon Maugham lets slip

Backing onto old railway line, foxes are aplenty. Here is one in my garden the other week. We live and let live round here.

But Londoners see foxes all the time

True, but rarely have to 'deal' with them.

And what's with the ŕecurring 'wife's kimono' theme? Why does he feel the need to mention it?!

Agree autumnrose. Foxes are a daily sight here in London. I saw one walking down Baker St in mid afternoon a few months ago.

But Londoners see foxes all the time!

But I’m seriously starting to wonder how this story can be so perfect.

Awful. Awful man to club a fox to death, and then laugh about it on Twitter. It's barbaric, and I hope the rspca do something about this.

God though - the parallels with his arguments on twitter are uncanny....foxes in the henhouse, baseball bats, wife's kimono... you couldn't make it up.

It sounds like a classic townie-sees-wildlife-and-overreacts story. Not sure why he felt the need to share his testerical episode with the whole world?
Weird. That poor fox.

To kill an uninjured, defenceless small animal with a baseball bat is horrific. I wonder if he was still drunk & made a huge error of judgement? To boast about it on Twitter-not a good look

Keeping some chickens in your garden is hardly a "tooth and claw" experience . Yes, they die. Yes, they get some unpleasant diseases and parasites. Yes, sometimes they fight. But it's really quite easy to build a sturdy fox-proof enclosure at that scale, (especially if you are wealthy)and it's not more brutal or dirty than keeping a few guinea pigs or rabbits. I would like to know if he'd have acted the same way if it was someone's loose dog.

"Gosh Margaret, I'm so sorry but poor Chase got in a pickle trying to get to my hens so I had no choice but to bash his brains in. Hope you understand!"

It's one of his new causes for 2020.

His "wife's" kimono?... hmmmm

Yes, precisely.

What a bizarre point at the end of the Guardian article - how do his tweets and the harm done by factory farming relate? Is it a deflection to - oh look, go and concentrate on the real baddies?!?

Here’s one

amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/26/prominent-lawyer-jolyon-maugham-tweets-about-clubbing-a-fox-to-death

Yes it’s really well written. And swiftly done too. I’m still in my trackies eating chocolate

Love the Wild Woman Writing blogpost linked to by LangCleg.

The story has now made the Guardian and the Mail and probably other outlets as well. Great news for someone who appears to crave attention.

I'm slightly miffed that I vocally supported this person over the semi-doxxing*. Doxxing is not OK at all but now I feel like I wasted my energy.

• he'd actually done an interview with local news about restoring the windmill so it wasn't a secret.

His "wife's" kimono?... hmmmm

Good goddess, this kimono business appears to be a running theme.

wildwomanwritingclub.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/on-jolyon-maugham-and-the-curious-case-of-the-fox-in-the-chicken-coop/

JoMo!

“Call to RSPCA concluded and a report filed.

They confirmed the killing of the fox with a baseball bat was an offence and they are going to take action. The Police will be involved also.

Never turn a blind eye to wrong doing against those who cannot defend themselves.”

Yeah, many men don't like anyone talking about bad men bevcause for some strange reason they take women talking about predaotrs..as a personal attack on themselves. Which I have never really understood at all. Imagine having a reaction to say a story of a kid being murdered by their mother with 'not all women kill' and such..its just bizarre.

Yes I remember that and I guess that was why people were telling him to get a gun and shoot it like a real farmer etc.

This is a bit of a side issue, but I note he says he's in central London. There was a bit of a hoo-ha a few months ago when Julia Hartley-Brewer tweeted a link to an old local newspaper article from 2013 mentioning that Maugham and his family had bought a windmill in Sussex to renovate and live in. JM said that by tweeting this she was effectively doxxing him and putting his life at risk (he'd received death threats from Brexiters).

So perhaps he doesn't live in Sussex any more. Or perhaps he's just another wealthy lawyer with two residences.

So he's been desperate to kill a fox with a bat for ages. How bizarre. They aren't dangerous- running at it would be enough to scare an un-entangled one off.

Yes, even a tame urban one.

Well done Jolyon. I'd like to see the Venn diagram of people who think he's a twat, there must be quite a number of groups to represent now. There are feminists, brexiters, now animal lovers. I wonder if Vegan Vincy is regretting his choice of lawyer now.