Fearless investigative blogger that he is, the Pub Philosopher remains on the track of potentially offensive pigs. He has now discovered that Dudley Council, the local authority that has banned workers from displaying toy pigs or pictures of pigs on their desks, is openly selling ‘lucky pigs’ at its Broadfield House Glass Museum. Anxiously the alehouse sage wonders whether “the Dudley Janjaweed are planning to raid the shop and smash the glass pigs”, and asks whether the Council will “stand firm or will they capitulate yet again?”

It sounds like allies of Dudley’s pigs may need some reinforcement. I am sure that ‘baconman’, the individual who e-mailed me in the wake of my earlier posting on Dudley’s pork wars, will be pleased to assist in the defense of Broadfield’s endangered glass menagerie. And he won’t be alone.