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Richard Reeves confuses humanity and modernity in Prospect this month and still makes a very nice point:

Blair implicitly promised to replace the grandees and squirearchy with a fresher, more humane, fairer-minded elite. An emblem of this modernity was Labour’s controversial ban on foxhunting. It seems somehow appropriate that in the week when the expenses scandal peaked, the police announced that they would no longer attempt to enforce this law. It was, they said, a waste of public money.