A week after the President of Poland appointed him a Knight Grand Cross of the Polish Order of Merit in recognition of his work behind the Iron Curtain, writer and philospher Sir Roger Scruton is this week's guest on "So What You're Saying Is."
In his 50 years of involvement in conservative thought, Sir Roger has written over forty books on politics, aesthetics and philosophy.
The pair discuss politics, conservatism and of course the now infamous interview with the New Statesman magazine.
Noting the 30th anniversary of free elections in Poland, Sir Roger draws a parallel between the stifling of thought behind the Iron Curtain, and the manner in which academics holding unpopular views are today denounced and condemned in modern academia.
Examining the Tory leadership campaign to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister, Scruton speculates on what it says about the general state of modern conservatism. Modern conservatives, he argues, have lost confidence -- running scared of the Left, for fear of being convicted by them of "thought crimes".
In a wide-ranging discussion, Sir Roger discusses his childhood and early life as the son of an old Labour loyalist, and how he discovered conservatism in the midst of the 1968 turmoil in Paris.
Sir Roger also discusses in detail, how he felt about the New Statesman article by George Eaton whereby he lost his Government appointment on the Building Beautiful commission. Scruton reveals whether he would have accepted reappointment had it been offered. He also divulges what the architectural establishment opinion of him and his views is.
Scruton on Beauty.
Sir Roger has much hope for the future believing that the Culture of Repudiation that turned its backs on the glories of western civilisation is now itself at risk of repudiation.
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