| Directory > Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Society and Culture > Politics > Issues > Hunting Bills > News and Media > 2003 > October Telegraph: If Labour bans foxhunting, civil disobedience would be justified
Robert Skidelsky, Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University and a cross bench peer in
the House of Lords, explains why the law would be invalid.
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/10/08/do0801.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
ic Cheshire Online: Duke okays hunt rally
The Duke of Westminster is to host a rally on Declaration Day which will encourage peaceful civil
disobedience if a hunting ban is passed into law.
http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/chesterchronicle/content_objectid=13499260_met....
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
ic Liverpool: Hunters take to streets in protest
The fox hunting fraternity of Cheshire, Merseyside, Manchester and North Wales will take to the
streets at Eaton Aerodrome on November 1 in a bid to stop hunting being banned.
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/content_objectid=13508929_method=f....
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
The Observer: The wrong fox
Leader. Considers the Bill to ban hunting with dogs "one of the most hypocritical Bills of
modern time" and that if animal welfare were truly the aim of the Bill, the Government would
be addressing the far worse (yet legal) abuse of millions of birds and animals on UK farms.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,1066158,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
The Observer: Blair's ally defends right to hunt foxes
Kamal Ahmed, political editor. Waheed Alli, millionaire Labour peer and friend of Peter Mandelson,
explains why he will break with his party's traditional position this week and declare any ban on
hunting to be an illiberal act based on intolerance, rather than a desire to tackle animal cruelty.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1066325,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Telegraph: Whitty fury as peers savage hunting Bill
Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Whitty, the environment minister in charge of the
Hunting Bill, announced that the Government would not willingly accept any of the 100-plus
amendments tabled by backbench peers. Said peers were not impressed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2003/10/22/nlords22.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Times: Angry scenes as Lords reject hunt Bill again
Melissa Kite, political correspondent. Ministers and Tory peers hurled abuse at each other across
the dispatch box as the Upper House inflicted a series of defeats on the troubled Hunting Bill.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,635-863301,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Independent: Defiant peers throw out total ban on fox-hunting
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. Peers reinstated clauses for the registering of hunts
which MPs had removed from the original government Bill.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=455862
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Independent: Hunting ban will be delayed again
Andy McSmith, political editor. Fox hunting and other blood sports are to survive for another year.
The Government's legislative programme is so congested that business managers are ready to abandon
the latest attempt to bring in a ban.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=452409
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers scent blood as they go in for the kill
Simon Hoggart's sketch of the Hunting Bill being returned to its original form in the House of
Lords, illustrated by peers describing their own unusual lives.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/comment/0,9236,1068169,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers reverse ban on hunting
Sarah Hall, political correspondent. A cross party amendment to the Hunting Bill allowing
registered hunting to continue was passed by 261 votes to 49 after vociferous debate between the
peers and the junior government minister Lord Whitty.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,1068128,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
CNN: England fox hunting ban reversed
The House of Lords on Tuesday reversed a complete ban on fox hunting in legislation approved by the
House of Commons, and sent it back to the Commons for another vote.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/21/britain.foxhunt.ap/
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
BBC News: Lords rejects hunting ban
The peers reinstated the plans for a registration system originally proposed by the government but
later rejected in the House of Commons. The committee stages of the bill continue in the Lords on
Wednesday next week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3208776.stm
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
BBC News: Hunt deadlock looms
Nick Assinder, political correspondent. The ping pong years reviewed, with the expectation of the
Parliament Act being used.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3209978.stm
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Sun: Peers vote to save hunts
Peers rejected the complete ban on fox hunting backed by MPs and voted for a licensing system for
hunts.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003490272,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
BBC News: Lords reject coursing ban
Environment Minister Lord Whitty accused peers of "destroying the basis" of the bill.
Mike Hobday, of the League Against Cruel Sports, said a House of Lords decision rejecting a ban had
killed any hope of compromise on the government's Hunting Bill. As if.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3222519.stm
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Telegraph: Lords kill off Hunting Bill
The Hunting Bill, which MPs had amended in June to ban fox hunting in England and Wales, was
effectively killed off in the Lords after it became clear the Government had not allowed them
sufficient time to debate it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/29/uhunt.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Western Morning News: Lords reject hunting ban
Lord Whitty claimed the Lords wrecked the Bill by removing the coursing ban. Alun Michael had
earlier claimed that Commons had created a "wrecked, unenforceable and unworkable" Bill
by making it a complete ban.
http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=103354&command=displayContent&sourc....
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Telegraph: Bill to ban hunting is blocked by Lords
Andrew Sparrow. The Government is reluctant to make firm commitments about what they will do next.
According to Whitehall sources, Mr Blair does not want a Bill banning hunting to be seen by the
public as a Government measure.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/30/nhunt30.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Telegraph: 'Class war' behind vote against hunt
Graham Tibbetts. 44 per cent believe anti-hunting Labour MPs are motivated by class war rather than
animal welfare, according to an ICM poll published yesterday. 38 per cent backed a complete ban, 30
per cent supported a licensing system and 24 per cent advocated the status quo.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/04/nhunt04.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Guardian: Pro-bloodsport peers block anti-hunting bill
Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. A bill to ban hunting with dogs was blocked by
pro-hunting peers in protest at the time allocated to its debate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1073931,00.html
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
ic NorthWales: Duke backs hunt rally
Andrew Forgrave and Sam Lister. A protest hunt is to be held on the Duke of Westminster's Eaton
estate on the Welsh borders, at which riders and followers will pledge to break the law if hunting
is banned.
http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/content_objectid=13499053_method=full_sit....
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
IOL: Blair targets foxes' fate in hunt for votes
Analysis of the current hunting bill situation from a South African perspective.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=24&art_id=ct20031017191129460E000407&set_id=1
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Scotsman: Fox Hunting Row Horn to Sound Again in the Lords
Amanda Brown, environment correspondent, PA News. Mark Shotton, master of the hunt in Tony Blair's
Sedgefield constituency in the North East said: "I just wish people would realise that if fox
hunting is banned, everything will be killed by the guns, which is what has happened in
Scotland."
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2072852
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Telegraph: 44pc of deer killed by hunts 'are already hurt'
Almost half the deer killed by hunting last season were already suffering from road accident or
shot wounds according to ISAH, the sport's regulatory body. 43 per cent of foxes killed were either
a nuisance to farmers or suffering from mange.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/17/nbul17.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
Telegraph: Trust forfeits gift of rare books over hunting ban
Will Bennett, art sales correspondent. The National Trust's ban on staghunting on its land has cost
it the ownership of one of Britain's finest collections of books on country houses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/18/nnt18.xml
Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
Whois Check
|
