i used to travel around eastern europe, which was then a socialist enclave under the control of the soviet union. The distinctions between those who had control of it and those who didn't were largely political. Now one of the things that we on the right should emphasize is that politics is not just about the dist tion of wealth. And i feel that we ought to look at the rest of politics to see exactly what it is there the right should be defending. If you are on the left, you tend to have a cause. George is very good with causes. He has enjoyed in falling to the statet he is in, and that i have enjoyed in rising to mine.
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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