A rural distraction Hunting the hunters You don't have to be a Labour minister to oppose hunting.
Some people have no shame.
The suggestion by Lord Daresbury, chairman of the Masters of Fox Hounds Association, that many people would find hunting less offensive if members of the hunt wore 'warm tweed jackets' rather than their traditional pink is hootingly ridiculous. Unfortunately, it is also probably true. But now it's too late. Even if the master rode to hounds in a donkey-jacket, it wouldn't do much for the pro hunting lobby. But for the matter to have been raised, and without embarrassment, pinpoints what much of this so-called debate has been about.