I think that first of all, you've got to have us very strong er insistencet this wealth can be used simply to set up systems of sovereignty. It's no part of being the kind of conservative i am that you should just allow these thingst go on. Especially if they are destabilizing. You've got to find a policy to rectify it. I don't think that the massive taxation that pickety recommends will rectified it. Indeed, it just has led to the the er transfer of the wealth of of france to london o would rectifying it.
The political Left often purports that it has society’s best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet according to conservatives, it is precisely that self-regard, that attempt to monopolise virtue, which exposes the hypocrisy of left-wing ideology. In this archive debate from 2018, we gathered Labour MP Stella Creasy, environmental campaigner, journalist and author, George Monbiot, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the leading philosopher of conservative thought, the late Roger Scruton, who sadly passed away in 2020, to discuss the issue of right vs left. Our host for the discussion was the journalist, broadcaster, visiting lecturer and Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University, Razia Iqbal.
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