i don't see that being a very effective solution to well, in equality. But it is not wealth in equality which i think is dstabilizing. It's the accumulation in a small class of people from whom it doesn't move on. We want equality of opportunity, but you're never going to absolute equality of outcome. And i suggest the world in which you did get that would be a pretty gray, boring and intolerant place. I mean, it sounds like it's come straight out of an orwaliana novel. You've got to consider that as part of your response.
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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