Roger appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme (26/4/19) to discuss the interview he gave George Eaton of the New Statesman. Here is the recording, originally published by The Today Programme
A gentleman who does not wish revenge; a gentleman who does not assume motivation without facts; a gentleman who is principled in his entirety. A gentleman we should all aspire to be.
In reference to an earlier comment the BBC interviewer, Justin Webb, is most definitely hostile. To my ears Webb sounds like a headmaster who is out to skewer Sir Roger Scruton by somehow validating George Eaton's discredited interview. Scruton, who is an intellectual heavyweight is crystal clear in his language, as he refutes every accusation. I don't understand what the BBC think can be gained by taking this approach. Bewildering.
17:21 Roger speaks about the Conservative voice and the campaign against it. He is speaking with complete authority as I work in Education and at a meeting to start the academic year, the auditorium was correctly addressed by the director who gave his pep talk for the coming year, educational standards etc and finished by asking all staff members to join him against the forces of Conservatism. So there you have it. Its real.
And here your comment lies, unread except by probably around a dozen people. Yet if it described a public official urging public workers to join him against the forces of the Left Wing, the story would have been plastered across the front pages of most newspapers and been covered exhaustively on TV and radio news programs. The director would now be removed from his job. It has become clear to me that the news media now constitute the real power in the English speaking world. Governments, academia, business, cultural institutions, as well as private citizens: all kneel in fear before it. (Notice how 'private citizen' has taken on new connotations. Where once it indicated solidity and wholesomeness, it now sounds quaint, outmoded, reactionary, even sinister. 'Private' reminds one of _privacy,_ the thing one wants if one is committing wrongs, or crimes.) This development only awaited an adult cohort sufficiently indoctrinated by so-called education that many would like it, not many would object, and others would fear to do so. That ground now being prepared, the Long March Through the Institutions, while not quite over yet, seems close enough to completion that its total triumph seems imminent, especially now that it has suffused Big Tech and its social media tentacles backed up by trillions of dollars of stock market capitalization. This includes RU-vid, where a shutdown of dissent is well underway. (Posting this comment has required of me multiple attempts. It contains the wrong words, and RU-vid's programs have noticed. I have learnt to copy my comments to another document before posting them, for often when I go back to check they have been garbled and truncated and by design made to look somewhat like nonsense. By restoring them from my saved copy one or more times, I can at last make them stick.) How much I am beginning to feel like Winston Smith. That final victory of the Long March is when the historical aberration we have experienced as the multi-decade interval of outrageous beautiful freedom will have ended and the great abuses will begin --- for when you offer people the chance to abuse others in the name of making things better, twisted enthusiasts, history shows us, come out of the woodwork to take up the work in tremendous numbers. Things like those which happened to Sir Roger will seem trivial in comparison. Orwell's "boot stamping on a human face" will have arrived, to stay not forever perhaps, but for generations at least. Or maybe forever, who knows?
I listened to the entire interview. If Eaton took such exception to these comments why does he answer them with an emphatic 'yes!' instead of challenging them?
@@Peter-ew5bq I think so too. When he "slyly" asks ol' Scruton if it's not correct to label the knife-crimes in London as "black crimes". Of course Sir Roger gives an elaborate and accurate (and interesting) answer.
I can hear Scruton getting nervous and I can't help but think this whole case may have affected his health later on. Also, I can empathise because this sort of mischaracterization and subsequent inquisitive, mean intended trials are happening not only to major figures but also to common people. It's a disgrace and we must make a stand against it.
Wow. The BBC has become everything that a free-thinking intellectual would despise-a low purveyor of half-truths, misdirections and outright lies. What a sad fall from grace. Full support to Sir Roger Scrutton from an Australian fan.
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