Never, ever
trust the Left

As Essential Reading related a week or so ago, the great Roger Scruton was set up by the New Statesman‘s deputy editor,  misquoted, instantly found guilty of heinous racism by the Twitter jury and summarily fired from a post to which he had only recently been appointed by the purported conservative government of Theresa May. In The Spectator, Douglas Murray writes:

… Our world is replete with complex matters that need discussing. We need philosophers, thinkers and even politicians of courage to help us find our way through this. We live in the age of character assassination. What we now desperately need is a counter-revolution based on the importance of individuals over mobs, the primacy of truth over offense, and the necessity of free-thought over this bland, dumb and ill-conceived uniformity.

Murray’s full column, which details what Sir Roger actually said, as opposed what a sleazebag journalist claimed, can be read in full here.