Being managerialised by socialists is even worse than being managerialized. It's the left that stood up for universities as a humane critique of social priorities. Let's assume that there's some truth in what you say. You didn't come along to see some. This is what always happens when I talk to people who say to me, 'I'm in danger of agreeing with you' But tradition isn't just about changing the garden and Scottish country dancing - it's about things like the unbroken development of the common law down a thousand years. These are huge things, which have shaped us as the things that we are. We're in danger of agreed to actually.
What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, and Roger Scruton, right-wing philosopher who has written on everything from economic theory to literature, and architecture to wine. What we heard was two two irreducibly different views of the world, where each tries hard to understand the other’s view.
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