Having beliefs and expressing them is no longer tolerated and the contagion is spreading

Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half.

As Wagner's Ring - that huge and controversial cycle of operas - goes on tour, self-professed Wagner fan, Roger Scruton, tells us why The Ring is absolutely a story for our time.

This October, Horsells Farm Enterprises will be opening its gates to host Apple Festival! 

IN GURRELIEDER, VERKLÄRTE NACHT, AND PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDESchoenberg showed total mastery of tonality and of late romantic harmony, and these great works entered the repertoire. But by the time of the Piano Pieces op.

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters has given its Ondaatje Prize to a portrait of Roger himself.

This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook.

Scruton is a fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, which announces itself as "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy."

Bad planning sowed the seeds of conflict in cities such as Homs. Now a local architect has a vision of something better

A century and a half ago, Napoleon III gave to Georges-Eugène Haussmann the task of clearing away the insalubrious streets of medieval Paris, and building a new city full of light and air.

Two thoughtful and lengthy reviews of FOOLS, FRAUDS AND FIREBRANDS

“…he largely sets aside constructive philosophical work in order to dismantle the dismantlers. This he does with rhetorical vigor and flair, and though he often paints with the broadest of brushes and does not always make the distinctions perfect fairness would call for, his critique is a powerful one indeed.” And “Late in his book Scruton comments that he has searched these thinkers’ writings ‘in vain for a description of how the equality of being advocated in their fraught manifestoes is to be achieved.’ In the end, he says, ‘We know nothing of the socialist future, save only that it is both necessary and desirable.’