THERE being no serious scientific, intellectual or animal welfare case for a ban on hunting that has convinced any of the committees or commissions that have looked into it since the Second World War, the case presented by the anti-hunt brigade is at best misconceived and misleading, and even at times faintly irrational.

Andrew Tessier's equation of civil disobedience and suicide bombing is decidedly so - as well as tasteless (Letters, November 10).

James Shepherd,

Grove Hill Gardens,

Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Updated: 08:44 Saturday, November 13, 2004