{"id":1053592,"date":"2020-01-15T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1053592"},"modified":"2020-01-15T05:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:27:39","slug":"rip-britains-greatest-conservative-philosopher-sir-roger-scruton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/rip-britains-greatest-conservative-philosopher-sir-roger-scruton\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Britain’s Greatest Conservative Philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Roger Scruton has died and Britain has lost her greatest conservative thinker, writer, fox hunting man, philosopher and all-round-hero of the right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like so many of the bravest and best, he was a prophet almost without honour in his own country.<\/p>\n

In the Eastern European countries where he had fought for freedom under Communism, he was properly recognised as a hero: in 1998 President Vaclav Havel awarded him the Czech Republic\u2019s Medal of Merit (First Class) for his work in the Eighties smuggling samizdat literature and encouraging underground networks behind the Iron Curtain; in June 2019, the Polish President awarded him Poland\u2019s Order of Merit; last month (December 2019) President Viktor Orban of Hungary awarded him their Order of Merit, saying he had \u2018foreseen the threats of illegal migration and defended Hungary from unjust criticism.\u2019<\/p>\n

In Britain, however, he enjoyed a more mixed reputation \u2014 epitomised by a shoddy incident following his appointment in 2018 as chairman of the government\u2019s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.<\/p>\n

Though it was a well-deserved appointment for such an intelligent, architecturally well-informed, civilised thinker with a strong aesthetic, the left couldn\u2019t bear the idea of anyone so shamelessly conservative being given a government advisory role.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

So an activist journalist from the left-wing New Statesman<\/em> set out to ambush him \u2014 and by twisting Scruton\u2019s words succeeded in getting him ousted from the job.<\/p>\n

What was most disgusting about the incident was not so much the cockroach-like behaviour of the scummy leftist hack \u2014 one George Eaton \u2014 as the reluctance of the cowardly, craven, politically correct Establishment to rise to Scruton\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n

As I reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n

The smear<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a result of selective editing of the interview and malicious tweeting by the magazine\u2019s deputy editor George Eaton \u2014 cost Scruton his job on a government advisory body. Among those who initially condemned Scruton for his alleged remarks were various Conservatives, including MPs Tom Tugendhat, Johnny Mercer and James Brokenshire, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer turned freesheet editor George Osborne.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was only thanks to some digging from Scruton\u2019s friend Douglas Murray that justice was restored.<\/p>\n

But now journalist\u00a0Douglas Murray<\/a>\u00a0has got hold of the original interview recording and analysed the transcripts in the\u00a0Spectator.\u00a0What becomes immediately clear is that Scruton was badly misrepresented. Not only is Eaton shown repeatedly trying to provoke Scruton into voicing provocative opinions he doesn\u2019t actually hold, but it is also evident that the version of events Eaton subsequently presented in a series of trolling tweets bears little relation to Scruton\u2019s measured, thoughtful discourse during the interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I interviewed<\/a> Scruton myself in 2017, we talked about the moment during the\u00a01968 Paris \u00e9ven\u00e9ments <\/em>when Scruton, who had been fairly apolitical up to that point, suddenly discovered he was a conservative.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

He had watched the educated children of privilege wantonly destroying the property of their social inferiors in the name of something or other, and realised: \u2018Whatever they are for, I am against.\u2019 That was the reason he has spent so much of his life since trying to develop a philosophy of conservatism as thorough, persuasive and enticing as the variations on Marxism so compelling to those students.<\/p>\n

Later, he provided the most satisfying definition of conservative values I have ever heard.<\/p>\n

\u2018Conservatives are people who love something actual and want to retain it.\u2019<\/p>\n

(Or it could have been \u2018attain\u2019 it \u2013 but whatever, the general sense remains. Conservatism, unlike the hate-riddled philosophy of modern leftism, does not define itself in opposition to things nor is it obsessed with theory. Rather it springs from the very things the left is always accusing it of lacking \u2013 positivity and love).<\/p>\n

My personal favourite of his many fine books is On Hunting<\/em>. And I was so glad to read in the Christmas issue of the Spectator<\/em> that as recently as February last year \u2013 on his 75th birthday \u2013 he was able, despite the protests of his lovely wife Sophie, to ride to hounds one last time.<\/p>\n

He concluded his piece in the Spectator<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Falling to the bottom in my own country, I have been raised to the top elsewhere, and looking back over the sequence of events I can only be glad that I have lived long enough to see this happen. Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.<\/em><\/p>\n

RIP Sir Roger!<\/p>\n

The Delingpole interview with Sir Roger Scruton can be found here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Breitbart<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sir Roger Scruton has died and Britain has lost her greatest conservative thinker, writer, fox hunting man, philosopher and all-round-hero of the right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like so many of the bravest and best, he was a prophet almost without honour in his own country.<\/p>\n

In the Eastern European countries where he had fought for freedom under Communism, he was properly recognised as a hero: in 1998 President Vaclav Havel awarded him the Czech Republic\u2019s Medal of Merit (First Class) for his work in the Eighties smuggling samizdat literature and encouraging underground networks behind the Iron Curtain; in June 2019, the Polish President awarded him Poland\u2019s Order of Merit; last month (December 2019) President Viktor Orban of Hungary awarded him their Order of Merit, saying he had \u2018foreseen the threats of illegal migration and defended Hungary from unjust criticism.\u2019<\/p>\n

In Britain, however, he enjoyed a more mixed reputation \u2014 epitomised by a shoddy incident following his appointment in 2018 as chairman of the government\u2019s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.<\/p>\n

Though it was a well-deserved appointment for such an intelligent, architecturally well-informed, civilised thinker with a strong aesthetic, the left couldn\u2019t bear the idea of anyone so shamelessly conservative being given a government advisory role.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

So an activist journalist from the left-wing New Statesman<\/em> set out to ambush him \u2014 and by twisting Scruton\u2019s words succeeded in getting him ousted from the job.<\/p>\n

What was most disgusting about the incident was not so much the cockroach-like behaviour of the scummy leftist hack \u2014 one George Eaton \u2014 as the reluctance of the cowardly, craven, politically correct Establishment to rise to Scruton\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n

As I reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n

The smear<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a result of selective editing of the interview and malicious tweeting by the magazine\u2019s deputy editor George Eaton \u2014 cost Scruton his job on a government advisory body. Among those who initially condemned Scruton for his alleged remarks were various Conservatives, including MPs Tom Tugendhat, Johnny Mercer and James Brokenshire, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer turned freesheet editor George Osborne.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was only thanks to some digging from Scruton\u2019s friend Douglas Murray that justice was restored.<\/p>\n

But now journalist\u00a0Douglas Murray<\/a>\u00a0has got hold of the original interview recording and analysed the transcripts in the\u00a0Spectator.\u00a0What becomes immediately clear is that Scruton was badly misrepresented. Not only is Eaton shown repeatedly trying to provoke Scruton into voicing provocative opinions he doesn\u2019t actually hold, but it is also evident that the version of events Eaton subsequently presented in a series of trolling tweets bears little relation to Scruton\u2019s measured, thoughtful discourse during the interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I interviewed<\/a> Scruton myself in 2017, we talked about the moment during the\u00a01968 Paris \u00e9ven\u00e9ments <\/em>when Scruton, who had been fairly apolitical up to that point, suddenly discovered he was a conservative.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

He had watched the educated children of privilege wantonly destroying the property of their social inferiors in the name of something or other, and realised: \u2018Whatever they are for, I am against.\u2019 That was the reason he has spent so much of his life since trying to develop a philosophy of conservatism as thorough, persuasive and enticing as the variations on Marxism so compelling to those students.<\/p>\n

Later, he provided the most satisfying definition of conservative values I have ever heard.<\/p>\n

\u2018Conservatives are people who love something actual and want to retain it.\u2019<\/p>\n

(Or it could have been \u2018attain\u2019 it \u2013 but whatever, the general sense remains. Conservatism, unlike the hate-riddled philosophy of modern leftism, does not define itself in opposition to things nor is it obsessed with theory. Rather it springs from the very things the left is always accusing it of lacking \u2013 positivity and love).<\/p>\n

My personal favourite of his many fine books is On Hunting<\/em>. And I was so glad to read in the Christmas issue of the Spectator<\/em> that as recently as February last year \u2013 on his 75th birthday \u2013 he was able, despite the protests of his lovely wife Sophie, to ride to hounds one last time.<\/p>\n

He concluded his piece in the Spectator<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Falling to the bottom in my own country, I have been raised to the top elsewhere, and looking back over the sequence of events I can only be glad that I have lived long enough to see this happen. Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.<\/em><\/p>\n

RIP Sir Roger!<\/p>\n

The Delingpole interview with Sir Roger Scruton can be found here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Breitbart<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1052531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nRIP Britain's Greatest Conservative Philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/rip-britains-greatest-conservative-philosopher-sir-roger-scruton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RIP Britain's Greatest Conservative Philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sir Roger Scruton has died and Britain has lost her greatest conservative thinker, writer, fox hunting man, philosopher and all-round-hero of the right. 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When I interviewed Scruton myself in 2017, we talked about the moment during the\u00a01968 Paris \u00e9ven\u00e9ments when Scruton, who had been fairly apolitical up to that point, suddenly discovered he was a conservative. He had watched the educated children of privilege wantonly destroying the property of their social inferiors in the name of something or other, and realised: \u2018Whatever they are for, I am against.\u2019 That was the reason he has spent so much of his life since trying to develop a philosophy of conservatism as thorough, persuasive and enticing as the variations on Marxism so compelling to those students. Later, he provided the most satisfying definition of conservative values I have ever heard. \u2018Conservatives are people who love something actual and want to retain it.\u2019 (Or it could have been \u2018attain\u2019 it \u2013 but whatever, the general sense remains. Conservatism, unlike the hate-riddled philosophy of modern leftism, does not define itself in opposition to things nor is it obsessed with theory. Rather it springs from the very things the left is always accusing it of lacking \u2013 positivity and love). My personal favourite of his many fine books is On Hunting. And I was so glad to read in the Christmas issue of the Spectator that as recently as February last year \u2013 on his 75th birthday \u2013 he was able, despite the protests of his lovely wife Sophie, to ride to hounds one last time. He concluded his piece in the Spectator: Falling to the bottom in my own country, I have been raised to the top elsewhere, and looking back over the sequence of events I can only be glad that I have lived long enough to see this happen. Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude. RIP Sir Roger! The Delingpole interview with Sir Roger Scruton can be found here. 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Like so many of the bravest and best, he was a prophet almost without honour in his own country. In the Eastern European countries where he had fought for freedom under Communism, he was properly recognised as a hero: in 1998 President Vaclav Havel awarded him the Czech Republic\u2019s Medal of Merit (First Class) for his work in the Eighties smuggling samizdat literature and encouraging underground networks behind the Iron Curtain; in June 2019, the Polish President awarded him Poland\u2019s Order of Merit; last month (December 2019) President Viktor Orban of Hungary awarded him their Order of Merit, saying he had \u2018foreseen the threats of illegal migration and defended Hungary from unjust criticism.\u2019 In Britain, however, he enjoyed a more mixed reputation \u2014 epitomised by a shoddy incident following his appointment in 2018 as chairman of the government\u2019s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. Though it was a well-deserved appointment for such an intelligent, architecturally well-informed, civilised thinker with a strong aesthetic, the left couldn\u2019t bear the idea of anyone so shamelessly conservative being given a government advisory role. So an activist journalist from the left-wing New Statesman set out to ambush him \u2014 and by twisting Scruton\u2019s words succeeded in getting him ousted from the job. What was most disgusting about the incident was not so much the cockroach-like behaviour of the scummy leftist hack \u2014 one George Eaton \u2014 as the reluctance of the cowardly, craven, politically correct Establishment to rise to Scruton\u2019s defence. As I reported at the time: The smear\u00a0\u2014 a result of selective editing of the interview and malicious tweeting by the magazine\u2019s deputy editor George Eaton \u2014 cost Scruton his job on a government advisory body. Among those who initially condemned Scruton for his alleged remarks were various Conservatives, including MPs Tom Tugendhat, Johnny Mercer and James Brokenshire, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer turned freesheet editor George Osborne. It was only thanks to some digging from Scruton\u2019s friend Douglas Murray that justice was restored. But now journalist\u00a0Douglas Murray\u00a0has got hold of the original interview recording and analysed the transcripts in the\u00a0Spectator.\u00a0What becomes immediately clear is that Scruton was badly misrepresented. Not only is Eaton shown repeatedly trying to provoke Scruton into voicing provocative opinions he doesn\u2019t actually hold, but it is also evident that the version of events Eaton subsequently presented in a series of trolling tweets bears little relation to Scruton\u2019s measured, thoughtful discourse during the interview. When I interviewed Scruton myself in 2017, we talked about the moment during the\u00a01968 Paris \u00e9ven\u00e9ments when Scruton, who had been fairly apolitical up to that point, suddenly discovered he was a conservative. He had watched the educated children of privilege wantonly destroying the property of their social inferiors in the name of something or other, and realised: \u2018Whatever they are for, I am against.\u2019 That was the reason he has spent so much of his life since trying to develop a philosophy of conservatism as thorough, persuasive and enticing as the variations on Marxism so compelling to those students. Later, he provided the most satisfying definition of conservative values I have ever heard. \u2018Conservatives are people who love something actual and want to retain it.\u2019 (Or it could have been \u2018attain\u2019 it \u2013 but whatever, the general sense remains. Conservatism, unlike the hate-riddled philosophy of modern leftism, does not define itself in opposition to things nor is it obsessed with theory. Rather it springs from the very things the left is always accusing it of lacking \u2013 positivity and love). My personal favourite of his many fine books is On Hunting. And I was so glad to read in the Christmas issue of the Spectator that as recently as February last year \u2013 on his 75th birthday \u2013 he was able, despite the protests of his lovely wife Sophie, to ride to hounds one last time. He concluded his piece in the Spectator: Falling to the bottom in my own country, I have been raised to the top elsewhere, and looking back over the sequence of events I can only be glad that I have lived long enough to see this happen. Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude. RIP Sir Roger! The Delingpole interview with Sir Roger Scruton can be found here. 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