The Spectator

Boycott the NSPCC

The NSPCC and the RSPCA used, like the monarch, to be above politics.

issue 10 July 2004

Too much theory and not enough practice. Those were the words used this week by a lifelong shire Tory to describe what has become of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She meant that the two societies have become unhealthily politicised.

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