in July 1997 he [Runciman] fell into conversation with James Lees-Milne on the subject of the recently elected New Labour administration: 'We agreed that hunting can't be justified, any more than hereditary peers, or for that matter religion - yet they are all good things.'
M. Dinshaw, Outlandish knight: the Byzantine life of Steven Runciman (2016), 416, footnote
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