As the government commits to banning wild animals in English circuses, Thomas Chipperfield faces losing his livelihood and lifelong passion " but, he says, his job is not cruelThe last lion tamer in Britain is waiting to meet me outside a pub called the Showman in the West Midlands town of Bloxwich. If I'm expecting a mustachioed impresario " charismatic, bullwhip-wielding and perhaps a little shifty " I'm confounded…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM on February 28, 2018