I think what we need here is better definitions of what we mean by equality. What the case for equality represents is about lost potential. The best policies, the best answers come from debate and discourse. Whenever i hear quasi and his talking in parliament, i know the ideas are better on the left. And its accountability for the fact that we all benefit when we make progress. So it is right that all of us make a contribution to making forward.
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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