Self-Righteous Vermin-Loving Vegan Hedgemonkeys

It doesn’t get much more entertaining than Guardian sports blogger Steven Wells’s take on the furor over fox hunting, which, like fishing, he points out, is much better than golf — especially urban golf. “Since the aristocracy drove us off the land so they could graze sheep — goes the argument — the hunting of medium-sized mammals has helped preserve the landscape that makes every British ex-pat in America go weak at the knees when they see helicopter shots of it in adverts for golfing holidays during televised football matches.”