New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics

New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics- John Mortimer, attorney and author of the Horace Rumpole stories. There is no worse tyranny, wrote John Stuart Mill, than that of a majority. The test of democracy is not that the majority should always get its way but how far minorities are respected. Will fox hunting be saved? Our best hope is to get President Bush to put on a pink coat and chase a fox; no doubt Tony Blair would fall right in behind him.