By Roger Scruton.
For too long conservatives have been reluctant to lay claim to their intellectual heritage, while the media, muffled by political correctness, have given little or no space to any way of thinking that would challenge their left-liberal orthodoxies. It is time to change all that. Achievable policies require believable principles, and believable principles depend on clear ideas. Recently a group of thinking conservatives got together with a view to defining those ideas and to encouraging the Conservative Party to subscribe to them and to build them into its policies. In this section of ConservativeHome we will present short statements of 250-500 words, each devoted to some concept vital to the presentation of the conservative worldview. We invite comments from readers that will help us to take the discussion forward. Our goal is to expose the intellectual and moral flaws in the soft left orthodoxies of our day, and to provide strong and believable arguments for the kind of conservatism that could again win an election. We hope to post something every week, and begin this week with my own thoughts on the nature of charity.
Excellent initiative.
There's a typographical error in the prose above:
"In this section of ConservativeHome we will present short statement of 250-500 words..."
Posted by: Tom Greeves | 11/02/2012 at 08:11 PM
Oh, also the link to your ConservativeHome piece doesn't seem to be working. (I type this at 8.12pm on Friday evening.)
Posted by: Tom Greeves | 11/02/2012 at 08:12 PM
Thank you Tom - both of those errors have now been corrected.
Posted by: twitter.com/TimMontgomerie | 11/02/2012 at 08:19 PM
Delighted to see this happening - it is long overdue and delighted to see Roger Scruton taking the elad with this his writings on Conservativism deserve much wider attention.
Posted by: Martin Parsons | 11/02/2012 at 08:41 PM
I welcome this devotion to ideas rather than mere political expediency as in most other blogs.
Posted by: Engineer | 11/03/2012 at 09:51 AM
Tim will you be allowing contributions from readers?
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Your videos continue to suggest downloading Flash so I can see your videos..my IPad inhibits Flash...What do I do now Yogi?????
Posted by: Charles Reynolds | 11/05/2012 at 05:07 PM
A welcome initiative
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Oh, still link to your conservative home block does not seem to success. (I play it at PM on Friday night.
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