Roger Scruton: Conservatives must think. So come and do so at the second...
By Roger ScrutonDuring 13 years of opposition the Tory Party had the opportunity to think. Issues that were of ever increasing prominence in the minds and the feelings of the electorate were ignored or...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: Truth in Politics
By Roger ScrutonHuman beings make rational choices, and choices are rational only if they seek out the truth. But the truth may be uncomfortable, so that we have a motive to avoid it. Or it may be...
View ArticleMatthew Sinclair: The three elements of good climate policy
Matthew Sinclair is Director of The TaxPayers' Alliance. I think Roger Scruton is absolutely right both in his book – Green Philosophy– and his article for this website about the motive that can cause...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: Conservatism and the Environment
By Roger ScrutonThere is no political cause more amenable to the conservative vision than that of the environment. For it touches on the three foundational ideas of our movement: trans-generational...
View ArticleRoger Scruton on Lord Rennard, Cardinal O'Brien and Inappropriate Behaviour
By Roger Scruton.Our society has not come to terms with the sexual revolution, and one proof of this is the extent to which people seem now free to accuse each other of sexual misdemeanours and...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: The Health and Safety culture is killing volunteeering and the...
By Roger ScrutonThe Conservative Party has rightly emphasized that it is civil society, not the state, that is the source of our shared values and our public spirit. Each function that is taken over by...
View ArticleMichael Bentley: The market cannot provide the cultural values we need to...
Michael Bentley is an historian of British politics and thought. His latest book, a biography of Sir Herbert Butterfield, appeared in 2011.Conservatives often join forces with libertarians. Some,...
View ArticleAnthony O'Hear: The Riddle of the Voucher, Part Two
By Anthony O'Hear, Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University, and editor of Philosophy journal.Back in 1986, Arthur Seldon published an essay entitled ‘The Riddle of the Voucher’. The riddle was...
View ArticleGay Marriage and Real Conservatism
Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher and journalist.Dominating political and cultural debate in 2013 will be the contentious issue of gay marriage. On the one side, you have a self-confident liberal...
View ArticleThe conservative neglect of culture
By Roger Scruton.Nobody knows what a cultural policy should aim at, what means it should use, or how it could lead to legislation or other political initiatives. Hence, in Conservative Party thinking,...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: Conservatives must think. So come and do so at the second...
By Roger ScrutonDuring 13 years of opposition the Tory Party had the opportunity to think. Issues that were of ever increasing prominence in the minds and the feelings of the electorate were ignored or...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: Truth in Politics
By Roger ScrutonHuman beings make rational choices, and choices are rational only if they seek out the truth. But the truth may be uncomfortable, so that we have a motive to avoid it. Or it may be...
View ArticleMatthew Sinclair: The three elements of good climate policy
Matthew Sinclair is Director of The TaxPayers' Alliance. I think Roger Scruton is absolutely right both in his book – Green Philosophy– and his article for this website about the motive that can cause...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: Conservatism and the Environment
By Roger ScrutonThere is no political cause more amenable to the conservative vision than that of the environment. For it touches on the three foundational ideas of our movement: trans-generational...
View ArticleRoger Scruton on Lord Rennard, Cardinal O'Brien and Inappropriate Behaviour
By Roger Scruton.Our society has not come to terms with the sexual revolution, and one proof of this is the extent to which people seem now free to accuse each other of sexual misdemeanours and...
View ArticleRoger Scruton: The Health and Safety culture is killing volunteeering and the...
By Roger ScrutonThe Conservative Party has rightly emphasized that it is civil society, not the state, that is the source of our shared values and our public spirit. Each function that is taken over by...
View ArticleMichael Bentley: The market cannot provide the cultural values we need to...
Michael Bentley is an historian of British politics and thought. His latest book, a biography of Sir Herbert Butterfield, appeared in 2011.Conservatives often join forces with libertarians. Some,...
View ArticleAnthony O'Hear: The Riddle of the Voucher, Part Two
By Anthony O'Hear, Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University, and editor of Philosophy journal.Back in 1986, Arthur Seldon published an essay entitled ‘The Riddle of the Voucher’. The riddle was...
View ArticleGay Marriage and Real Conservatism
Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher and journalist.Dominating political and cultural debate in 2013 will be the contentious issue of gay marriage. On the one side, you have a self-confident liberal...
View ArticleThe conservative neglect of culture
By Roger Scruton.Nobody knows what a cultural policy should aim at, what means it should use, or how it could lead to legislation or other political initiatives. Hence, in Conservative Party thinking,...
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