ROCK

guitarist Brian May is still selling out stadiums around the world with Queen, but the guitarist has no chance of making his debut at next year’s Glastonbury Festival. Its creator, Michael Eavis, 82, tells me that poodlehaired May, 70, is ‘not invited’ because of his outspoken criticism of the badger cull to reduce the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. Somerset farmer Eavis, who keeps 400 dairy cows and supports the cull ‘in certain circumstances’, adds of May: ‘He’s a danger to farming. He doesn’t care about the badgers — he doesn’t know anything about it at all. He’s a total p***k’.’ And Eavis is normally such a peace-loving old hippy.