Here's what I want from modern architecture, explains housing tsar Roger Scruton
Architecture needs to stop aiming for the ‘iconic’ and focus on everyday beauty, says Roger Scruton, the new housing tsar
You can hate me as much as you like – it’s not a crime,
As a middle-class conservative I get no legal protection
The Pompidou Centre, Paris’s great blemish
The hideous Pompidou Centre bothers me every time I see it
Cant vs Kant
Liberalism must remember its roots
Bottled inspiration
Wine is a record of the human spirit
Big business once cherished workers. Now it exploits them
Big business once cherished workers. Now it exploits them
Brexit will give us back the countryside, as well as our country
Rural landscapes and lifestyles deserve a Brexit boost
As the left surges back, Marxism’s bloody legacy is covered up
As the left surges back, its bloody legacy is covered up
The attack of the Blob
Mindless ideology is eating away at the soul of our education system
Post-truth? It’s pure nonsense
It’s not difficult to spot a big fat lie
The Russian way of lying
It’s an old communist tradition – but the roots go back to Ancient Greece
What’s the point of education?
The idea has taken hold that state schools must treat all pupils equally, regardless of talent
Labour of the negative
Jeremy Corbyn’s disregard for Parliament is terrible for his party and for our representative democracy
The only way to make a ‘safe space’ for conservatives at universities
To Edinburgh for the book festival, where I am to explain Fools, Frauds and Firebrands to respectable middle-class Scots, who…
Universities’ war against truth
Expressing certainty — about almost anything — is now a sure way to make yourself a pariah on campus
Fear of the fearful
Hiding the truth about migrant crimes shows huge disrespect to most Muslims
Why we need grammar schools
Keeping high culture alive is vital for the preservation of peace and democracy
The Corbynist manifesto
For Jeremy Corbyn and his followers, it is as if the Berlin Wall never fell
Why MPs have a duty to resist online petitions
It is the duty of MPs to resist Twitter storms and online petitions
Let's face it – Ray Honeyford got it right on Islam and education
The Bradford head teacher was dismissed for emphasising nationality over religion. He should have been applauded
Humans hunger for the sacred. Why can’t the new atheists understand that?
Atheists are blind to a fundamental human need
Schools need freeing from the right as well as the left
How politicians wreck education
Stand up for the real meaning of freedom
We need conservatism now more than ever
Roger Scruton’s diary: Finding Scrutopia in the Czech Republic
Hay-making was easy this year, and over in good time for a holiday. I am opposed to holidays, having worked…
Celebrity fun vs scared joy
Our celebrity culture grows from a twisted idea of the good life
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