i have to confess before i begin, that the left sometimes drives me round the bendhe meetings, the er factions, the endless splitting. It's true to say, unfortunately, that the old adage often holds up the term, the right seeks converts and the left seeks traitors. And there will be a public guillotining of opposing factions at the end of this debate. But for all that i am on the left, i belong to the left, and i will remain on left because the left is the only solution to a predicament that faces every generation. This happens not because people are wicked, though there are one or two. It is an innate and intrinsic characteristic of all
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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