As you may or may not know, diseased badgers may or may not be killing cattle up and down the English countryside, and officials have decided that the only solution to the problem is to cull 5,000 badgers. It is a delightfully English story (unless you are a badger), full of profoundly English details. Here are some of the most English of them: 9. "Meles meles, the European badger, is indigenous to the United…