The British government is intensifying its attacks on rural life, following its draconian inheritance tax raid policy, rolling out fresh plans to restrict shotgun ownership further and to eliminate the traditional vestiges of rural sport by even banning pretend fox hunting.

Britain’s left-wing Labour government has announced what it calls an animal welfare strategy, in which it says it will ban trail or drag hunting — a simulated fox hunt in which hounds pursue an artificial trail instead of real prey — because critics claim the trail is used as a pretext to hunt secretly. Supporters of the trail hunting community call the announcement an…

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