Modernity

A term bandied about willy nilly.

What does it mean?

Apart from the purely factual - pertaining to chronologically recent times, events, practices etc.

It seem frequently to convey no more than a set of arrangements or changes of which the writer approves.

Politicians are forever wanting to modernise by which they seem to mean no more than to make changes they prefer.

When you hear of someone wishing to modernise something take a good look and be sure they are not just seeking to further their own advantage. So there!

It is not about the fox!

Again the UK is in paroxysms over the issue of fox hunting. The government, to please some of their support (perhaps not a majority it seems) wishes in effect to overturn the ban and legalise this bizarre spectacle. Those wishing to keep the ban and even see it strengthened go on about the cruelty just as the hunters go on about the need to control fox numbers.
For the record - fox hunting has no significant effect on controlling fox numbers and yes the fox's last minutes are appalling - but worse things happen to people on a regular basis and we seem unwilling enough to address those.
The main argument against fox hunting is not what it does to the fox but what it does to the hunters. Seemingly normal sensible people take to fox hunting and become irrational braying deranged savages. In the interests of mental health let us ban it completely and let the hunters find alternative amusements.