Roger Scruton's Blog, page 15

BBBBC Interim Report

Here’s a link to UK Gov’s BBBBC commission & to a response survey. If you can, please do read & respond -

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/building-better-building-beautiful-commission

The 2019 Scrutopia Summer School

As August draws to a close, we are able to share with you a wonderful film with our 2019 Scrutopians. We would love to see you next year so please register your interest with Izzy in the office. 

 

Roger Scruton gets his job back - The Spectator, 23rd July 19

Roger Scruton has been reappointed as head of a government housing body after he was sacked in April following a magazine interview in which his views were misrepresented. The letter from housing secretary James Brokenshire, who fired Scruton, is published below:

Dear Sir Roger,

Thank you so much for our conversation about the next steps on the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. As we both recognise, the publication of the Commission’s Interim Report provides an opportunity to co...

The Telegraph - 20th July 19

The failure to stand up for conservative thinking is leading us into a new cultural dark age.

The intellectual scene always used to have room for great minds from the Right. Today they would be denounced for thought crime by a Left that cannot tolerate dissent.

This article was published on 20th July in The Telegraph - The full article can be read below

Letter from the Secretary of State 9/7/19

This is to report the good news that, in addition to the published apology from the New Statesman, Roger has now received an apology from the Secretary of State, James Brokenshire, for the hasty decision made on the basis of a false and malicious report of The New Statesman’ interview.

Press Statement from Sir Roger Scruton in response to the apology from The New Statesman 8 Jul 2019

Press Statement from Sir Roger Scruton in response to the apology  from The New Statesman 8 July 2019

Statement, Sir Roger Scruton: “I am pleased to have resolved my complaint against the New Statesman.  They have apologised for how they misrepresented my interview on Twitter and accepted that their article in some fundamental ways did not accurately reflect what I had said.  I am pleased that the words I actually spoke are now available (transcript) (audio).  This experie...

New Culture Forum - So What You're Saying Is

Peter Whittle talks to Sir Roger, the pair discuss politics, conservatism and of course the now infamous interview with the New Statesman magazine.

Watch the interview on YouTube here

https://youtu.be/pz-fPOjXqL4

The Mail on Sunday - 30th June 2019

SIR ROGER SCRUTON battled the Thought Police behind the Iron Curtain as a young man. Now he says they've come for him in Britain after he was wrongly accused of making racist slurs.

By SIR ROGER SCRUTON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY. PUBLISHED: 00:27, 30 June 2019 | UPDATED: 00:28, 30 June 2019

In 1979, when teaching philosophy at the University of London, I responded to an invitation to address a private seminar in Prague. I travelled from Poland, already inwardly frozen by the eerie chill of Commu...

Can Europe learn from communism?

I confess, I am an anti-communist.

During the 1970s and 1980s, anti-communists were shunned in the UK’s universities. After all, we were attacking the revolution that offered to liberate mankind from the world-wide capitalist conspiracy. Our professors admitted that the Soviet Union had gone wrong; but it was wrong in practice, not in theory. We apologists for capitalism were wrong in theory, which was far worse than the mere accident of causing 20 million deaths and the extinction of individ...

Speech of the President during the award ceremony of Roger Scruton

Dear Mr. Speaker,
Dear Madam President,
Ladies and gentlemen, Ministers,
but above all, Dear Professor, our distinguished guest,
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

I am delighted that I could today honour Mr. Professor with the Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland on a day that has a special dimension in the Republic today. Exactly 30 years ago, the first semi-free elections to the Sejm, the free elections to the Senate were held in Poland, but first and foremost - by breaking the...