Sky News: Fox hunt ban backed
- Tories failed to win compensation for those who will lose their livelihoods as a result of the ban. Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael said the proposed scheme was too widely drawn, impractical and "unworkable". The Human Rights Committee and E
- http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12371239,00.html

Sky News: Blair's hunting defeat
- Alun Michael suggested an outright ban would prove unworkable and insisted the Government's alternative would be the best way of preventing animal cruelty.
- http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1095502,00.html

Scotsman: On the hunt for trouble
- Hamish Macdonell and Fraser Nelson. If Holyrood was supposed to be a testing arena from which Westminster MPs could learn, it has abjectly failed in the task. The MPs appear to have learnt nothing from the failed experiment in Scotland.
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=719962003&tid=40

Scotsman: Fox hunters urge civil protest
- Militant fox-hunters were threatening a campaign of civil disobedience today as ministers pushed ahead with plans for a ban.
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=721772003&tid=40

Scotsman: Anger as Scots MPs vote on English hunt ban
- Scottish MPs were yesterday facing calls to withdraw from England-only affairs as countryside campaigners reacted with outrage at their part in voting for a total ban on fox-hunting south of the Border, as MPs for England and Wales could not vote on Scotl
- http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=719982003&tid=40

Telegraph: I will fight Labour repression, pledges new head of Liberty
- Stephen Robinson. Shami Chakrabarti, the new head of Liberty, said Liberty took no position on hunting but noted that efforts to ban the sport reflected the prevailing view of MPs and ministers who sought to impose criminal sanctions on behaviour of which
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/31/nlibe31.xml

Guardian: Which house really holds the power?
- Roy Hattersley. Thoughts on Gerald Kaufman, the Hunting Bill, trial by jury and reform of the House of Lords.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1002299,00.html

CBS News: No More Hunting With Hounds?
- Ed Johnson. Although Blair's government believes a total ban on hunting foxes with hounds would be unenforceable, and proposed regulation, Commons voted to approve an amendment banning fox hunting in England and Wales. Blair did not vote.
- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/01/world/main561276.shtml

Guardian: Scots take stock a year after hunt ban
- Gerard Seenan. "Things are done in the countryside for a reason. You can't just come in and change it and expect there to be no consequences."
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,1007264,00.html

Telegraph: Lords threat to revamp Hunting Bill
- Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Mancroft, a pro-hunting Tory peer and a Countryside Alliance board member, predicted that the Lords would reinstate the provisions for the regulation of foxhunting contained in the Government's original Bill.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/11/nhunt11.xml

Economist: Foxhunting: Blooded
- Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power, and the government's weakness shows in its defeat on foxhunting although the issue is still not settled. There is still the House of Lords, the Parliament Act, the courts and the ECHR to get through, and e
- http://www.economist.com/World/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1897659

Sydney Morning Herald: MPs say no, but Lords to run with pack
- In a bad-tempered late-night third reading debate, Mr Michael said the Government had made a "genuine effort" to bring forward a sound and workable piece of legislation but MPs had made it clear they would settle for nothing less than a total ba
- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783288790.html

Telegraph: What has it got to do with the Scots?
- Boris Johnson. While MPs representing Scotland voted to ban hunting in England and Wales, MPs for England had no say whatever over the fate of hunting in Scotland because it is a devolved issue, a point which the government continues to ignore.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/10/do1002.xml

BBC News: Hunt ban clears commons
- A bill to ban hunting with dogs has cleared the House of Commons, with the Tories failing to win compensation for those who may lose their livelihoods, despite the precedent set when fur farming was banned.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3052225.stm

Financial Times: Hounded into battle mode
- Far from being done and dusted, the hunting row will now continue right up to the next general election campaign. And it will do so loudly.
- http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030704003980

Scotland on Sunday: Hated Blair and his chaotic government will come undone
- Gerald Warner. Explains why Britain is now pervaded by loathing and contempt for the political class, and if the government goes ahead with its hunting ban it will end the consensus on which democracy depends and subsidiarity could turn out to mean someth
- http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/opinion.cfm?id=736252003

ic Wales: Hunting activists threaten chaos if ban is passed
- Colin Hughes, The Western Mail. The CA, led by Simon Hart, has distanced itself from the RCA and points out the manifesto referred to Parliament, not only Commons, and that the checks and balances in the political system will ensure proposals based on pre
- http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13149659_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Hunting-activists-threaten-chaos-if-ban-is-passed-name_page.html

Telegraph: Ban on hunting is just the beginning
- Charlie Brooks. Explains why he finds the RSPCA to be no longer the benign organisation that any benevolent person would support, but hypocritical and unknowledgeable as they move from hunting to horse-racing.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/07/07/shbroo07.xml

Telegraph: 'Taiaut!' British huntsmen seek foreign fields
- Susan Bisset. Thousands of British hunters are planning to pursue their sport in France, Ireland, America and Russia if, or, as seems increasingly likely, when it is banned across Britain.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/06/nhunt06.xml

Telegraph: Catholic primate calls for debate on embryo research before fox-hunting
- Chris Hastings. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, has criticised MPs for wasting parliamentary time on fox-hunting while ignoring "alarming" developments in embryo research.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/06/ncorm06.xml

Guardian: Hunt activists to Hound Ministers
- Stuart Millar. Hunt supporters from the various pressure groups are making plans for the next step in the escalating battle, from harassment to civil disobedience to the UK and ECHR courts of law.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,991973,00.html

Spiked: Seize the day, save the vermin
- Josie Appleton. "Preventing the old elite from practising one of their favourite sports is a pretty lame and mean-spirited way of trying to establish authority. The fact that foxhunting has remained an issue for Blair's whole government is down to th
- http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DE30.htm

Telegraph: Yesterday in Parliament
- Michael Kallenbach, Parliamentary correspondent. Coverage of the debate on the government and total ban amendments.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/01/npar01.xml

Telegraph: Blair 'shenanigans' over hunting ban
- George Jones, political editor. Tony Blair was accused last night of acting in "bad faith" by anti-hunting Labour MPs after the Government put further procedural hurdles in front of their attempts to impose an outright ban on foxhunting.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/01/nhunt01.xml

The Sun: Total ban on foxhunting
- George Pascoe-Watson, deputy political editor. The Prime Minister was forced into an astonishing retreat after it became clear his amendment on the free vote would be defeated. He finally caved in just six minutes before the vote.
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003300821,00.html

The Sun: The Sun Says
- Leader. Voters want action on schools, hospitals, roads, crime, trains and asylum - things that matter. Chasing vermin with dogs doesn't even show on the radar.
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,31-2003300555,00.html

News 24 South Africa: Double blow for Blair
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair was nursing a double setback on Tuesday after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to ban fox hunting with dogs in England and Wales and a poll showed he has lost the public's trust. The defeat came just hours before a poll in
- http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1380853,00.html

MegaStar: Blair outfoxed
- Rupert Youngman. The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable - Oscar Wilde's quote about fox-hunting and a pretty good description of rebel Labour MPs turning on their leader.
- http://www.megastar.co.uk/world/news/2003/07/01/sMEG01MTA1NzA0OTU2MTE.html

ic Wales: No U-turn on hunting ban - minister
- Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael has denied the Government has done a U-turn on hunting to win support from backbenchers for foundation hospitals.
- http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13129656_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-No-U-turn-on-hunting-ban---minister-name_page.html

Guardian: MPs back total ban on fox-hunting
- Nicholas Watt and Michael White. The bill will have to return to a Commons standing committee because the measure has been so radically altered.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,988610,00.html

Guardian: Government pleads with rebel Labour MPs to back 'tough' compromise hunting bill
- Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Alun Michael argued that the government's would ban the cruelty associated with hunting in all its forms, and be enforceable. Tony Banks claimed the credibility of the government centered on a total ban.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,988539,00.html

Edinburgh Evening News: Campaigners hail hunting ban vote
- The result of the free vote killed off government proposals which would have outlawed stag-hunting and hare-coursing, but permitted fox-hunting under licence in areas where it was judged to be less cruel than other methods of culling foxes.
- http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=717862003

CNS News: British Lawmakers Push Ahead With Foxhunting Ban
- Mike Wendling, London bureau chief. Douglas Batchelor, chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS), said a next likely target would be North America's estimated 150 packs of foxhunting dogs. "We would be delighted to take this campaign
- http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200307%5CFOR20030701d.html

BBC News: Rural anger at 'roughshod' treatment
- The CA's Darren Hughes points out that if the hunting bill was really about animal welfare the legislation would be looking at all other methods of control, looking at the welfare negatives and positives of each and coming up with a sensible way forward
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3034670.stm

BBC News: Huntsmen vow to fight on
- Reactions in Wales, which is said to have more hunts per square mile than any other area of the UK.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3035158.stm

BBC News: Hunt master's vow to fight on
- Joint Hunt Master Chris Burrows-Wood from Worcestershire, gives BBC News Online his reaction to the vote on an outright ban on hunting with dogs.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3034852.stm

BBC News: Hunt groups pledge to fight ban
- Reactions from all sides, including MPs, peers and lobbying groups. Includes video clip.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3036462.stm

BBC News: Groups react to hunting vote
- Reactions from South West pro- and anti-hunt campaigners digesting the news that MPs have voted to ban fox hunting.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3034160.stm

Telegraph: Will Blair decide to run with the fox or hounds?
- George Jones, political editor. The Prime Minister has spent the past six years using every procedural device to delay a decision while trying to give the impression - as he told David Dimbleby in July 1999 - that foxhunting "will be banned as soon a
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/nhunt102.xml

Telegraph: Stop the wreckers
- Leader. The government-labeled "wrecking amendment" of a complete ban has been passed, causing questions about how they can now apply the Parliament Act.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/02/dl0201.xml

Telegraph: Power of peers is restricted by law
- George Jones. Explanation of the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949 and how they affect the current bill to ban hunting.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/nhunt202.xml

Telegraph: Hunting will be banned by 2005, say MPs
- George Jones, political editor and Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Ministers expect the Parliament Acts to be invoked for only the fourth time since 1949 to overcome opposition in the House of Lords and ensure legislation banning hunting becomes
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/02/nhunt02.xml

New Zealand News: MPs closing in for fox-hunting kill
- Background, explanation of the vote to ban hunting, and future possibilities from the point of view of all sides.
- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3510413

Guardian: Shooting their fox
- An assortment of Letters to the Editor representing various perspectives.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,989133,00.html

Guardian: Quite frankly, I don't care about the fate of the fox
- Jackie Ashley. As people turn away from politics in their millions because they feel there is no great ideological battle, and because they don't see much evidence of improved public services, the vacuum is filled by noisier, angrier people with a narrowe
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,989167,00.html

Guardian: Leader: Hunt for a solution
- Leader. The Guardian praised Alun Michael when he presented his original bill, and blames him now for trying to tinker with it when it returned to the Commons this week, thereby causing the procedural problem which triggered the vote to ban.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,989107,00.html

Guardian: 'If it is made illegal to hunt with dogs, I will break the law'
- David Ward interviews Randle Cooke, a joint master of the Cheshire hunt who is also a farmer and cares for 280 dairy cows on 320 rented acres.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,989252,00.html

Guardian: Blair risks alienating rural vote in run-up to election
- Nicholas Watt and Michael White. Pro-hunting peers plan to overturn the MPs' outright ban and slip the government's original compromise proposals back into the bill to place the prime minister in the position of having to reject his own policy because min
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,989254,00.html

Telegraph: Labour will push on with anti-hunt Bill
- George Jones, political editor. A committee of MPs will meet today to amend the Hunting Bill to bring it into line with Monday's Commons decision to reject a licensing system and impose a total ban. Under a tight timetable set by the Government, the Bill
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/03/nhunt03.xml

Guardian: 'It is town against country'
- Clips from UK newspaper editorials after the hunting bill was amended into a complete ban.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/story/0,12900,989811,00.html

Guardian: Hunting for support
- Nigel Henson, Countryside Alliance. Points out that the majority of the public no longer supports a ban on hunting.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,989834,00.html

BBC News: Fears over police enforcing hunt ban
- The Suffolk police chief constable Alastair McWhirter appealed for legislation to be enforceable, which would be difficult with the Hunting Bill that is currently going through Parliament.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/3040544.stm

New Statesman: Why MPs shouldn't care about hunting
- Leader. "Only one argument matters on hunting: that it doesn't matter. It is supremely unimportant." "If politics is the language of priorities, then our politicians have never got it so badly wrong."
- http://www.newstatesman.com/nsleader.htm

Telegraph: Police fear hunt ban will turn people against them
- John Steele, crime correspondent. A ban on hunting with dogs will create friction between police and some rural communities and divert resources from the fight against crime, the Association of Chief Police Officers have told Government and Parliament.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/04/nhunt04.xml