Roger Scruton: A pessimist’s guide to life

June 13, 2010

Roger Scruton: A pessimist’s guide to life
Roger Scruton was hounded out of liberal academia, then shamed by his links to big tobacco. But is the ‘old geezer’ of conservative philosophy ready to embrace David Cameron’s Big Society? The taxi drivers of Swindon do not seem to agree with Roger Scruton that his farm is easy to find, and so it is that the philosopher has to drive out and rescue a townie standing helplessly on a grassy verge …

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