The Conservatives had been defying conventional logic, winning by-elections while in government — a rare achievement — but now they have been soundly defeated in a safe seat by a minor party, analysis suggests, on the small matter of the countryside being swallowed whole by development. Will the Tories’ big-money donors in the construction industry come to haunt them?
Sir Roger Scruton would have supported Britain’s endless lockdowns, Michael Gove has implausibly claimed.
Will no one in govt speak up for freedom and prosperity? And if not, why do they persist in describing themselves as ‘Conservatives’?
Boris Johnson’s government needs to defy the left’s mob bullying tactics and start appointing actual conservatives to key positions — really important ones that don’t merely annoy the opposition but actually demoralise it.
Boris Johnson’s administration is another Conservative In Name Only government in the fine traditions of David Cameron and Theresa May.
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.
UK Conservative Kawczynski is the focus of a witch-hunt by left-leaning elements within his own party for attending a Conservativism conference in Rome.
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”?
“Conservatism,” wrote Sir Roger Scruton, “is not a matter of defending global capitalism at all costs, or securing the privileges of the few against the many… Its underlying motive is not greed or the lust for power but simply attachment to a way of life.”
I had the occasion to exchange questions with Sir Roger in 2016, the week before Britain voted to leave the European Union.
He provided the most satisfying definition of conservative values I’ve ever heard: ‘people who love something actual and want to retain it.’
Scruton, frequently described as Britain’s greatest living philosopher has been given an order of merit for his work for freedom in Europe.
British conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton has been reinstated as a co-chairman of a government commission after his sudden dismissal following the publication of misleading “partial quotations” by a left-wing magazine.
Poland’s president bestowed a prestigious state honor Tuesday on an English philosopher for his contributions to Poland’s anti-communist struggle in the 1980s.
Monty Python star John Cleese is under fire from the left for daringly, controversially pointing out that multicultural London no longer feels very English.
Sometimes I think that the British Establishment won’t rest until Tommy Robinson ends up murdered. If this were to happen, it would kill a number of birds with one stone.
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.
If you ever were tempted to vote Conservative again, these are the MPs who would justify your faith: Mark Francois, Andrea Jenkyns, Owen Paterson, Andrew Bridgen, and Priti Patel.
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.
Professor Sir Roger Scruton, Britain’s greatest living philosopher, has been sacked from his job as chairman of the government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, after making ‘unacceptable’ remarks on subjects including Islam, the Chinese and George Soros in an interview with a left-wing magazine.
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.
Celebrated Conservative Philosopher Sir Roger Scruton will chair the British government’s new beauty watchdog, in a serious blow for modernism and bland housing developments.
