Letter: In Brief

Sir: How sad that Roger Scruton should feel so compelled to see real and actual blood flow in order to propitiate his own self-perception and exorcise his apparent anxieties ("Roger Scruton. Philosopher, musician, author, scourge of the left", 14 December). He calls hunting sport; others would call it moral degeneracy, which will always have its intellectual champions among a certain strata of society, just as every horror and atrocity has had in the past.

DAVE GODIN

Sheffield