@chewie true... apparently it's not very widely appreciated.

I didn't mention TB either :)

I confess my wording there was a bit clickbaity/trollish. But...

Badgers predate hedgehogs. While there's no evidence (AFAIK) that it's the main reason for declining hedgehog numbers, if it's true that that humans won't reduce road transport to help them out, any other factor that reduces their numbers and IS amenable to suppression should be looked at, assuming we want to reverse the decline in hedgehog populations.
Eg., https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/predators/

I've nothing against badgers per se, but the huge efforts to protect them has a lot more to do with their charismatic mega-by-uk-standards-fauna nature than them being a threatened species (they're not.)

(Obviously badgers persecution, baiting, illegal trapping etc are Bad Things. FWIW I'm also pretty skeptical about culling to control bTB.)