Revenge of the Toffs

Pupils from Glenalmond College in Perthshire have been secretly filmed hunting, shooting and fishing for 'chavs' during their summer holidays. The boys are all aged between 12 and 16, some dressed in full hunting gear and others in shooting tweeds. The 'chavs', dressed in traditional track suits, baseball caps and plimsolls, are seen running away with terrified expressions as barking hounds snap at their heels and the public schoolboys charge them on horseback. In another scene, a 'chav' is fished out of a river and beaten with sticks, while an even worse fate awaits some of his unfortunate compatriots - they are filmed in the sights of a double-barrelled shotgun before being gradually picked off by a crack shot.

The film's shocking content is given an even darker undertone through the use of brooding classical music, which drowns out the screams of the victims and gives the film a sinister Lindsay Anderson ambience.

While Chaps often prefer to give the sartorially challenged a wide berth (often for purely practical considerations, since they can sometimes be offended by a particularly fragrant buttonhole), chasing them with shotguns seems a little harsh. Surely through constantly championing and displaying the wardrobe of a gentleman in public so that it gradually seeps down into street fashion, thereby eventually displacing the racks of tracksuits and baseball caps with moleskins, tweed jackets and trilbies; proffering a Players Navy Cut from a silver cigarette case and a nip from one's pewter hip flask when accosted by ruffians, and deflecting foul language with a choice quotation from Rupert Brooke, is a far worthier approach and one ultimately more likely to yield the desired result?

Watch the film and judge for yourself here