MADAM.
I write to congratulate R L Clarke for the excellent and accurate critique regarding the perverse actions of so-called "country" sportsmen and women. Their usual response to such criticism is to quote some upper lip quivering eulogy or poem to the "traditions" of the yeomen stock of Olde England.
However, it beggars belief to read how the tabloid press have rushed to make a virtue of the "humane" action of The Queen in wringing the neck of an injured pheasant, having conveniently overlooked the fact that Mrs Windsor was with the mob who injured the poor creature (and probably many more on a regular basis) in the first place.
She is "guilty by association" in the wicked slaughter of wildlife. But sadly it seems to run in the family.
Patrick Tester
Juniper Cottage,
Skenfrith