Anyone that follows the Countryside Alliance on any social media or receives their magazine, would be overwhelmed by the amount of pictures of local hunts getting underway on Boxing Day. Many of these pictures feature resplendent countryside with man and beast galloping across it, following a pack of hounds. No …
Read More »Rural Poverty: The American countryside is suffering and in need of educational reform
From the Andy Griffith Show and It’s a Wonderful Life to Dan in Real Life and E.T., the small town is where we escape to when the big city gets too big. The tea is sweeter, the people are nicer, and the football is better. It turns out that as …
Read More »Back sanity on fox hunting!
Tony Blair has said one of the biggest regrets from his time in office was the Hunting Act of 2004. While Mr. Blair is not one whose opinion I hold in any sort of esteem, I think that like many people, when he decided to push through the hunting “ban” …
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