The Journalist
Wine columnist for The New Statesman
Regular contributor to 'My Week' column in Country Life
Freelance writer for national newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Spectator, Hunting and even The Guardian and Independent notwithstanding the falling out detailed below.
Occasional commissions from outside the UK - National Review, City Journal, WSJ, National Review, New Criterion, Modern Age (all US publications), National Review (India), Lidové Noviny (Czech Republic), Fakt (Poland), Il Foglio (Italy), www.opendemocracy.net (global) .
Until 1998, a regular columnist in The Times with a weekly column 1983-87.
1999 and 2002 a weekly column on the countryside for the Financial Times weekend magazine 'The Business'. The column ceased when a combined attack from the Guardian, ASH and The Independent persuaded the editor that giving public affairs advice to Japan Tobacco International, while writing on rural affairs, amounts to a scandalous conflict of interest. ASH have all the links to the reams of hostile publicity generated and The Spectator published Roger Scruton's account of his work as a consultant to JTI. The work on broadening the terms of debate on 'Risk' and 'Freedom' is on-going and can be followed by reading The Risk of Freedom Briefing, edited by Roger, or by requesting a hard-copy to be mailed quarterly as it has been since 1999 to the press (inc. Guardian et al) and other opinion formers.