Roger Scruton on Soros and Hungary
‘It’s complete nonsense,’ Sir Roger Scruton told me last November. ‘It’s all fine. It’s only social media, isn’t it?’We were talking after the British government had appointed Scruton, Britain’s most eminent public intellectual, as the unpaid chairman of the Building Better, Building Beautiful commission. The appointment had unleashed a wave of outrage from the hard left — which, this being the age of Jeremy Corbyn, is also Her Majesty’s Opposition. Scruton was assailed as a homophobe, an apologist for date rape and eugenics, and, in a touching display of interfaith harmony, as both anti-Semitic and an Islamophobic. All of the accusations selectively misrepresented his statements, sometimes to the point of fiction.
