By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of these cookies. I really do want to give you all the chances you didn't give to Sir Roger. My debate about the family with Polly Mackenzie of the think tank Demos, in 'Bright Blue' Magazine, My latest conversation with Mike Graham of Talk Radio (5th October 2020), PETER HITCHENS: Save democracy and vote for my None Of The Below Party. Maybe I’m missing something, but Mr Hitchens’ second to last paragraph, ‘One or the other. Faced with an autumn of discontent, voters may nostalgically recall the cut-price meals they enjoyed at the Chancellor’s behest. George Eaton is senior online editor of the New Statesman. Eaton's quote from Scruton's book, about homosexuality, is interesting. Who paid for the champagne? Mr Eaton’s week long silence on the matter seems to prove the point, his argument has blown up in his face and he has nowhere left to go. Most journalists join and aid this mob, and do not ask difficult questions. Good points. Reducing it to a “Gotcha” moment only makes it harder to challenge their ideas. Also, we can now take with a pinch of salt anything The New Statesman says about discourse or hate speech or any other such claim. The published interview, I suggested last week, read as if it “had been conducted for the purposes of eliciting the quotes”. 29 April 2019 at 04:28 PM. It is only restrictions of free speech on the right. 29 April 2019 at 03:41 PM. To contact Sir Roger Scruton please telephone 01666 510 327 or e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. ... Plus the New Statesman’s autumn books special, featuring Sue Prideaux on Wagner, Janice Turner on the Cameroons, Rowan Williams, Sophie McBain, and … Ross Baglin | 29 April 2019 at 03:12 PM. For those who have not followed the episode, Scruton was recently interviewed by the New Statesman’s George Eaton. Finally, on Friday, the New Statesman published the full transcript of the interview. Peter Starr | Mrs A Houston | Brady talks about consulting Londoners, but Peabody (for whom she was working) destroyed Mother Levy's Nursing Home in Spitalfields after minimal consultation. Deletion of the New Statesman tweets by George Eaton and all corresponding re-tweets; Apology from the New Statesman in the agreed terms (Monday 8 July). April 29, 2019 But that seems to be a statement of fact…’. Craig Murray is someone very much of the left, but as a former ambassador he has inside knowledge of the tricks states use to discredit people and has suggested that modern tactics include using sexual assualt/rape claims against opponents to destroy their reputation. I wished to check first of all that this is accurate and secondly that there is no context to it which would make it wrong for me to conclude that you believe homosexuality to be 'not normal', and such an assertion to be a 'statement of fact'. Posted by: Posted by: By Tim Montgomerie. As the Resolution Foundation has charted, the Chancellor’s plan to. 18 May 2019 at 07:28 AM. There was a miserable interview on LBC. I do not think Roger Scruton's decision to associate closely with Douglas Murray is wise. What had happened to all that, I wondered. Sally | So Scruton, it seems, was talking about the Chinese Communist Party and its expectation of conformism from the populace, not the Chinese people. He was sacked from a government advisory post. Well done, Mr Hitchens - how edifying to show by example. It looks like it can be added to dyslexia, ADHD, risk-free vaccinations and anti-depressants. Ian Spriggs | adeledicnander | Because I and my allies are not like him.". This one has been well and truly hoist by his own petard. 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