[2] The song was released on 19 May 2013, in response to proposed badger culling in the United Kingdom.

[3] Said May of the song: The British people are speaking in their many thousands, and yet the Government is refusing to listen.

The government is set to murder 5,000 badgers and yet all the peer-reviewed scientific evidence shows that the answer to the problem of bovine TB in cattle does not lie in this slaughter and that this action will be ineffective and potentially damaging to the welfare of both farm animals and wildlife.

It is shocking that the NFU and the government have been allowed to continue with a politically led policy with no basis in science against the will of the people.

Brian May is absolutely inspirational and together we will beat the dark forces and save the badgers.