Who will speak up for our fieldsports?

Here’s a challenge for you: google the words ‘The Queen’ and ‘pheasant’. You will find the search engine’s top picks provide countless links to a litany of tabloid angst and misplaced adjectives.

Her Majesty, if some sections of the media are to be believed, does nothing at Sandringham bar ‘strangling’, ‘wringing’ and ‘clubbing’ the necks of our most popular gamebird. A host of publications that show such boastful pride in puffing their own peculiar brands of patriotism veer markedly towards the republican when it comes to the royal family’s participation in fieldsports.

It seems that there is no insult sufficiently low for them to sling at members of the House of Windsor when they spend time