is it just me, or does anyone else find it deeply offensive that advocates of hunting foxes with hounds described themselves last week as an oppressed minority?

a 'civil war' is on the cards, according to the daily mail; it's a 'national tragedy' according to the telegraph. don't step within 10 feet of me brandishing one of those rags or you will rue it. seriously. but i digress.

all this from the very people who hate the language of new labour, such words as 'minority'; not just the language, but what the language represents. fvcking rich when they can appropriate it for their own ends.