Free speech can make for uncomfortable listening, argues Roger Scruton, but it needs to be defended even when it gives offence.
The Observer's Tim Adams came to visit Roger at home in Wiltshire at the end of September, the result can be read in full on The Guardians website.
In the height of the Labour party conference, The Sunday Times News Review on Sunday 4th October featured Roger's latest essay - He’s not the Messiah, he’s the high priest of impenetrable nonsense.
Last week many of you may have heard Roger on the BBC Radio 3 programme Free Thinking.
For Jeremy Corbyn and his followers, it is as if the Berlin Wall never fell. For a while following the collapse of communism in Europe, it looked as though there might be an apology forthcoming from those who had devoted their intellectual and political efforts to whitewashing the Soviet Union or praising the ‘people’s republics’ of China and Vietnam.
THERE IS A KIND OF LISTENER who first becomes acquainted with the symphony orchestra through film music.
Whilst attending the Forum 2000 conference in Prague this month, the opportunity arose to give a talk to students at The English College.
