The bizarre pantomime that is the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting
The contentious thing at this year’s International Whaling Committee (IWC) annual meeting wasn’t whaling, but bizarrely it was the issue of ‘consensus’.
Will the dysfunctional status quo of the IWC be reformed this year? (Humpback off the coast of Tonga)
In a warehouse-like hall, with demoralisingly black walls, in a hotel on the Channel Island of Jersey, several hundred people have gathered this week for the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission.