Delingpole: No, Gove – Conservative Hero Roger Scruton Would Have HATED Your Lockdowns
Sir Roger Scruton would have supported Britain’s endless lockdowns, Michael Gove has implausibly claimed.
Sir Roger Scruton would have supported Britain’s endless lockdowns, Michael Gove has implausibly claimed.
Conservative parliamentarian Daniel Kawczysnki received a “formal warning” from the Conservative Party after a drive to “cancel” him for giving a speech at a conservative conference attended by Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini.
Just as the virulently anti-Thatcher Conservative Party became momentarily “Thatcherite” when Baroness Thatcher passed away, establishment Conservative Party figures have been out in force eulogising Sir Roger Scruton upon his passing this week. Where were they less than a year ago when he was being fired from their government for holding “unacceptable views”?
I had the occasion to exchange questions with Sir Roger in 2016, the week before Britain voted to leave the European Union.
The conservative philosopher and writer Sir Roger Scruton has died at the age of 75 following a six-month battle with cancer.
Three months after slandering him, unfairly trashing his reputation, and costing him his job as an unpaid government advisor, the left-wing New Statesman has finally apologised to Sir Roger Scruton.
Britain pre-eminent conservative philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, has said he is “not very impressed” by the way the Conservative Party hastily sacked him from an unpaid advisory post after the left-wing New Statesman published misleading extracts of an interview with him.
The fall out of this will be huge. Indeed, it is hard to overstate what a triumph this represents for free speech, sound thinking and honest journalism against the malign and increasingly devious and censorious forces of the modern left.
Sir Roger Scruton, the United Kingdom’s pre-eminent conservative philosopher, has held firm after the left-wing New Statesman published an interview parsed to make him look like a bigot, resulted in the Tory government sacking him from his role on the Building Better, Building Beautiful architectural commission.
Britain’s pre-eminent conservative philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, has come out fighting in response to a left-wing campaign to drive him from public life.
Sir Roger Scruton is England’s greatest living philosopher. He also happens to be a very outspoken, articulate conservative – so it comes as no surprise whatsoever to see the left playing the faux outrage game in order to oust him from his position as a government advisor.