Replacing the Hunting Act
WHILE having a knife fight in a telephone box with the animal rights lobby, we forgot the deeper argument about country life and country sports. We forgot that we live in a free country. We forgot that we are a minority, too. And we forgot that those who like to talk about celebrating diversity can be politely held to account. The Dutch have an apt phrase for what’s happened, adjacent to our one about hitting the nail on the head. They say: “You missed the plank.”
Rather than indulge in handwringing
