This whole notion that it's the left trying to rip down nation state is pure methology. Sure, the left does some bad stuff. It would be stupid to deny it. But the idea that the right is this passive mass just quietly trying to keep things nice and not do anything on its own account in terms of developing its own politics is pure mythology. And i'd really appreciate it if roger and quazi could address that point. Thank you very much.
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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