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Scruton screws it up again
SOLOMON HUGHES does not mourn the second departure of the sleazy Tory philosopher sacked for his vile views
Roger Scruton from Brinkworth is made a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
TORY philosopher Roger Scruton recently stepped into public view, and promptly embarrassed himself with a load of bigoty-sounding comments that got him sacked from his recent advisory job for the Tory government.
Scruton has been an accident waiting to happen ever since Housing Minister James Brokenshire gave him an advisory job last year.
Brokenshire has now sacked Scruton after he made some — entirely predictable — offensive comments in an interview with the New Statesman.
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