Who says irony is dead? The Four Barrow Hunt and the Countryside Alliance are holding a
fundraising auction in April. The lots are largely predictable: a subscription to the Telegraph, a French holiday home and a cured fox pelt. More surprising is the signed copy of Tony Blair’s
A Journey, with its comparatively brief account of the 700 hours of parliamentary time he devoted to banning fox hunting.
What, you may ask, would the good folk of the Four Barrow want with that memoir? Time to bury the hatchet? Perhaps. But, equally, Blackadder’s assessment of the magazine ‘King and
Country’ is recalled:
On a more serious note, the Countryside Alliance is still waiting for the promised debate on repealing the ban.‘Ah, yes, without question my favourite magazine; soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.’
HAT-TIP: Egremont.
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