Opinion: Shooting licences issue needs proper resolution.

I'll confess, I'm not much of a linguist, but rather than admit my own schoolboy failings for this tongue-tied inadequacy, I prefer to blame Mademoiselle Martin, who tried to teach me French at Clacton Grammar. Meanwhile, in a seemingly parallel universe, there is a bit of a debate going on at the moment as to whether farmers in Britain should be allowed to shoot pigeons and crows in order to protect their crops and livestock. To add insult to injury, while the skylark slaughterers on continental farms will continue to receive farm support through the CAP, their English counterparts get lectures on causing skylark decline and are then told food production is no longer a public good. [Extracted from the article]