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The controversial controversialist Sir Roger Scruton has died
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Anyone know anything about him?
RIP is not what this stirrer-up would have wanted.
Sort of man the average DT poster would love to hate. Here's your last chance.
RIP is not what this stirrer-up would have wanted.
Sort of man the average DT poster would love to hate. Here's your last chance.
Witch hunt saboteur. Sorry my posts so long - not time write shorter ones. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - “The very first step we must take is the acquisition of enough self-respect and self-confidence to say that we have met an enemy and that he is not us, but someone else.” De asini callidi nauseatum sum
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"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/23/roger-scruton-gets-job-back-after-regrettable-sacking
As I said I have not followed Scruton particularly but here are some recent examples.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/roger-scruton-a-man-who-seemed-bigger-than-the-age/
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/roger-scruton-1944-2020/
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/way-make-safe-space-conservatives-universities/
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/the-art-of-taking-offence/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roger-scruton-knew-the-precious-value-of-freedom-tb663hgzk?shareToken=1485658db4c3adc45e97ac68f511c776
And https://youtu.be/pz-fPOjXqL4
The perfect crib in my day for those of us who were forced to study classical music. Tone deaf and lacking any creativity, this book saw me through!!
Evidently you are not a true woke left libtard, if you were then not having heard of him would not stop you calling for a posthumous speaking ban to be imposed on him.
I’m surprised it wasn’t banned from the private school I went to then - a lot of other books were!
Woke: someone alert to injustice in society.
Libtard: contemptuous term for a person with left-wing political views.
So now you know,...and so do I.