‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld
The designer’s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn’t
December 2021
Cultural prescription
Sip, sip, hooray! Film, music, art and more about drinking
Whether your tipple is Mad Men, Roger Scruton or a game set in Satan’s afterparty, our critics toast the best culture about booze
May 2020
Book of the day
Wagner’s Parsifal by Roger Scruton review – in defence of the insufferable
Nietzsche famously called Wagner’s last opera poisonous, but does its theme of redemption offer an antidote to our ills?
February 2020
For the new right, Hungary is now what Venezuela once was for the left
Nick Cohen
Britain has failed the beauty test: in our cities and countryside, planners run amok
Simon Jenkins
January 2020
The uncomfortable truths about Roger Scruton’s conservatism
Kenan Malik
The late philosopher could wield an elegant argument, but his views were often ugly
Roger Scruton’s brand of conservatism became a licence for bigotry
Jonathan Portes
The thinker eulogised by the Conservative establishment did much to shape today’s anti-immigrant climate, says public policy professor Jonathan Portes
Roger Scruton: a brilliant philosopher and self-conscious controversialist
Sir Roger Scruton obituary
Sir Roger Scruton, conservative philosopher, dies at 75
July 2019
Roger Scruton gets government job back after 'regrettable' sacking
Scruton returns to housing commission after New Statesman apology for failing to accurately represent his views
April 2019
Roger Scruton should be confronted, not misrepresented
Kenan Malik
Roger Scruton is not the victim of a leftwing witch-hunt. Here’s why
Zoe Williams
From David Lammy to Roger Scruton, we rush to damn our opponents
Kenan Malik
Niall Ferguson isn’t upset about free speech. He’s upset about being challenged
Dawn Foster
The Conservative party owes Britain’s Muslim community an apology
Afzal Khan
Government sacks Roger Scruton after remarks about Soros and Islamophobia
November 2018
Would you trust Roger Scruton to design your new home?
The conservative philosopher who shares Prince Charles’s views on architecture is surely the worst person to head thenew commission to improve UK housing
Tory cronyism: a seemingly endless source of bigotry
Zoe Williams
The appointment of the philosopher Roger Scruton as a housing tsar has highlighted his prejudiced views. Is it something to do with the friends Tories keep?
Sack Roger Scruton over Soros comments, demand Labour MPs
Housing commission chair under fire over ‘antisemitic conspiracy theories’
