About a week ago, The Government passed a bill to ban fox-hunting, deer-hunting and coursing in England and Wales, to start from February 2005. Of course, it needed the Parliament Act to pass it (a seldom used act that allows Parliament to overturn the decision of the House of Lords, who historically how opposed any anti-hunting bills. Ahhh, democracy, eh.)

It just remains to be seen what the pro-hunting lobby can do to overturn the law. They are expected to take it to the European Courts of Human Rights. Interesting they choose Human Rights, when one of their biggest arguments is that foxes need controlling. They’ll doubtless go for the “hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost” line.

Still, for the moment I revel in the victory.

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