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Roger Scruton

Bottled inspiration

Roger Scruton 28 April 2018 9:00 am

Wine is a record of the human spirit

Big business once cherished workers. Now it exploits them

Roger Scruton 24 February 2018 9:00 am

Big business once cherished workers. Now it exploits them

Brexit will give us back the countryside, as well as our country

Roger Scruton 2 December 2017 9:00 am

Rural landscapes and lifestyles deserve a Brexit boost

As the left surges back, Marxism’s bloody legacy is covered up

Roger Scruton 23 September 2017 9:00 am

As the left surges back, its bloody legacy is covered up

The attack of the Blob

Roger Scruton 17 June 2017 9:00 am

Mindless ideology is eating away at the soul of our education system

Post-truth? It’s pure nonsense

Roger Scruton 10 June 2017 9:00 am

It’s not difficult to spot a big fat lie

The Russian way of lying

Roger Scruton 25 March 2017 9:00 am

It’s an old communist tradition – but the roots go back to Ancient Greece

What’s the point of education?

Roger Scruton 3 November 2016 9:00 am

The idea has taken hold that state schools must treat all pupils equally, regardless of talent

Labour of the negative

Roger Scruton 24 September 2016 9:00 am

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

Roger Scruton 27 August 2016 9:00 am

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

Roger Scruton 11 June 2016 9:00 am

Expressing certainty — about almost anything — is now a sure way to make yourself a pariah on campus

Fear of the fearful

Roger Scruton 26 March 2016 9:00 am

Hiding the truth about migrant crimes shows huge disrespect to most Muslims

Why we need grammar schools

Roger Scruton 5 December 2015 9:00 am

Keeping high culture alive is vital for the preservation of peace and democracy

The Corbynist manifesto

Roger Scruton 26 September 2015 9:00 am

For Jeremy Corbyn and his followers, it is as if the Berlin Wall never fell

Why MPs have a duty to resist online petitions

Roger Scruton 15 August 2015 9:00 am

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

Roger Scruton 5 July 2014 9:00 am

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?

Roger Scruton 31 May 2014 9:00 am

Atheists are blind to a fundamental human need

Schools need freeing from the right as well as the left

Roger Scruton 15 March 2014 9:00 am

How politicians wreck education

Stand up for the real meaning of freedom

Roger Scruton 4 January 2014 9:00 am

We need conservatism now more than ever

Roger Scruton’s diary: Finding Scrutopia in the Czech Republic

Roger Scruton 10 August 2013 9:00 am

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

Roger Scruton 30 March 2013 9:00 am

Our celebrity culture grows from a twisted idea of the good life

Prayers in stone

Roger Scruton 10 November 2012 9:00 am

The meaning of an English church

Brain drain

Roger Scruton 17 March 2012 6:00 pm

Neuroscience wants to be the answer to everything. It isn’t

The green and the blue

Roger Scruton 17 December 2011 12:00 am

To succeed, conservation must once again become conservative

We need the English music that the Arts Council hates

Roger Scruton 16 April 2008 12:00 am

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

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