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
Prayers in stone
The meaning of an English church
Brain drain
Neuroscience wants to be the answer to everything. It isn’t
The green and the blue
To succeed, conservation must once again become conservative
We need the English music that the Arts Council hates
Roger Scruton hails the glorious achievements of the English composers, and their role in idealising the gentleness of the English arcadia — so loathed by our liberal elite
An unhappy birthday to Sigmund the Fraud
Roger Scruton says that the century and a half since Freud’s birth has been marred by his imagined diseases of the mind
Hail Quinlan Terry
Roger Scruton pays homage to the scourge of modernism, a lonely warrior who defends the classical tradition in building
Dawkins is wrong about God
TV’s Richard Dawkins believes that faith is an infectious disease which spreads intolerance and conflict. In fact, says Roger Scruton, it is our principal source of love and peace
Your countryside needs you
Roger Scruton says that it’s time for rural residents to protect the land they love by clubbing together and buying it
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