On Monday I stood amidst a massive crowd protesting New Labour's second reading of its bill to control and ultimately to ban hunting in Britain. For months, the campaign has been led by the Countryside Alliance, who famously mustered a half million people to march in London on Sunday, 22nd of September; many who marched then recognised that it would be the last peaceful protest that could be staged. There would be no repeating the pleasant, convivial atmosphere of half a million law-abiding people amassed to make their presence felt in the capital. The politicians that they targeted had cowardly … Continue reading Notes from an Enfettered Island: Freedom Fighters