Roger Scruton
Angels still sitting on my shoulder
Douglas Murray discusses the importance of intellectual mentors and reveals two who continue to guide him
Is it safe?
The torture of our new safety obsessed national psyche
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
London revisited
Can London adapt to different work practices and living priorities after Covid-19 recedes?
Defenders of a shared culture
Oliver Letwin compares and contrasts two conservative philosophers, the late Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott
All must have beauty
There is finally a coherent plan to improve urban development in Britain – its implementation would be transformative.
The philosopher’s mind at its end
Sir Roger Scuton’s biographer on the last days of a giant
Free speech in an uncivil society
A climate of intolerance is threatening the pursuit of reason.
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy