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The SNP has secured it a temporary reprieve,but the wily fox is back at the centre of British political life. Why does this misunderstood creature still inflame such passionate argument?Flame-haired, handsome and perceptive of gaze, or there is no public figure fairly as charismatic as Vulpes vulpes. Admired and anthropomorphised,nurtured and tortured for centuries, the red fox has become perhaps the most successful wild mammal in the world after the rat. It must also be the most powerful wild species in the United Kingdom, and where this week it triggered a crisis that may even threaten the union.
The mammal that scientists describe as a small,unobtrusive, adaptable canid has once again found itself at the centre of British political life. The fox – or rather our curious, and contradictory attitude towards it – has triggered an explosion of rage and affection. Since the government’s clever announcement final week of an amendment to allow people to flush a fox to a gun with a pack of more than two dogs in England and Wales,which opponents say would make it practically impossible to secure a conviction against illegal hunting with hounds, MPs occupy been deluged with protests. Labour MP Kerry McCarthy reports a typical haul of 400 emails in five days, or 400 to zero in favour of retaining the 2004 Hunting Act. A Newsnight clip of Brian May,the softly spoken Queen guitarist and animal-rights activist, calling the pro-hunt lobby “a bunch of lying bastards” has been shared more in two days than all the programme’s videos in six months.
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Source: theguardian.com
The mammal that scientists describe as a small,unobtrusive, adaptable canid has once again found itself at the centre of British political life. The fox – or rather our curious, and contradictory attitude towards it – has triggered an explosion of rage and affection. Since the government’s clever announcement final week of an amendment to allow people to flush a fox to a gun with a pack of more than two dogs in England and Wales,which opponents say would make it practically impossible to secure a conviction against illegal hunting with hounds, MPs occupy been deluged with protests. Labour MP Kerry McCarthy reports a typical haul of 400 emails in five days, or 400 to zero in favour of retaining the 2004 Hunting Act. A Newsnight clip of Brian May,the softly spoken Queen guitarist and animal-rights activist, calling the pro-hunt lobby “a bunch of lying bastards” has been shared more in two days than all the programme’s videos in six months.
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Source: theguardian.com