I'm a young person greatly inspired by Scruton. I'm a civil engineer but eventually want to start a construction company specialising in traditional architecture. I speak to my friends and even the wokest are switched on and engage by the idea of recovering a sense of home and connection that traditional architecture has and our modern sterilised culture does not.

Sir Roger in charge of the British education system! Just a dream!

This man of outstanding intellect and courage has been recognised by Poland yet treated abhorrently by his own country.

I wrote a polite letter to my MP (Julian Smith, Cons) about the Roger Scruton sacking. He responded 'I found the recent comments by Sir Roger Scruton deeply offensve and completely unacceptable.and I believe it was the right decision for him to be dismissed ...'; followed by some cut-and-paste waffle. Sums up why I've abandoned the Cons and am now a Brexit Party or UKIP voter.

He's WRITTEN 50 books!! Half the planks i argue with online these days havent READ 50 books, swear to god!

What the Conservative party did to Roger was a disgrace. Gutless cowards. Thank you Douglas Murray for standing up for him and exposing the lies. It should be illegal to publish such dishonest hit pieces on people as that crappy activist did. He should at least be sacked.

43:15 - “One must recognise that civilisations decline, that we can lose things and never get them back as our ancestors did in the dark ages, but there were those self-sacrificing monks who kept the lamp burning, and it did come back.” A philosopher who really does love wisdom!

One of the few people that deserves to be a "SIR".

Thank God for Roger Scruton. May he continue strong for many years. I hope his children continue in his footsteps.

Sir Roger's modesty in regard to the work he carried out in Eastern Europe shows him to be the great man he is.

We are baring witness to the comprehensive unlearning of an entire generation which will have devastating consequences for years to come.

Nothing but the utmost respect for Roger. Watching him speak reminds me of the integrity we used to have.

When you hear about Roger Scruton's forays behind the Iron Curtain in his youth, it puts George Eaton's pathetic pretensions to social justice activism into perspective.

Roger Scrutton talking about how things were in Poland in the days of communism sounds so close to where we are in the UK now! The police are now arresting people for wrongthink here.

This kind of intelligent long-form conversation is much better than watching the television these days.

Douglas Murray did a brave and much needed standing up against the hyenas of the press.... and it meant a lot to Sir Roger. It meant a lot to all of us who support Roger Scruton.Thank you Douglas! How reassuring it is to listen to this conversation, Roger Scruton is so relevant for us in this world of madness, chaos and spineless public figures. I know he visits my home country Hungary fairly often and understands the political situation very well because he understands our history and culture much much better than any so-called political commentators etc.... This was beautiful!

The difference between Sir Roger Scruton and the average person is that he has an amazing faculty for true critical thought. Note the way he talks about his father and his Labour affiliations. No malice, no spite or sideswipes, just great objectivity. Impressive man.

Sir Roger - such a pleasure.. and privilege.. This is a great show in general - very intersting!

I would love to spend an afternoon with like minded people just listening to Roger share his thoughts. Men of Roger's caliber are few and far between.

Peter, thanks so much for your discernment in the selection of your guests. Fantastic. Great channel!!!

I love the way Roger casually says "well, as an intellectual..".. there are not many people who can say that without seeming pretentious, but for Roger it doesn't even need to be qualified..

This channel is brilliant. Needs more subs. Share fellas

Thank you gentlemen. There are still thosands of Conservatives, who share Sir Roger's views. However, the Party they supported or still support, has changed in so many ways. Ruined by politica correctness and fear of upsetting Islam. Sir Roger speaks for thousands of the conservative dispossessed.

Logged on to see The Scrutonator in my feed. You're just showing off, now, Peter. :)

Every nation needs a Sir Roger Scruton, a sane and clear voice in the wilderness of bad ideas that is willing to defend beauty, the sacred, the sublime, and the very things we ought to busy ourselves treasuring and conserving.

I’m proud Poland: a conservative nation awarded Roger with an order of merit.

Hi Peter. It's not difficult. The reason you've had a million views is because you get interesting guests on an you are bloody good at interviewing them!!! Keep up the good work fella.

"Awakening against the woke" Great quote.

Thank you for this thoughtful conversation.

I TAKE MY HAT OFF TO YOU SIR ROGER - MY WIFE'S FAMILY ARE POLISH AND I HAVE BEEN TRAVELLING TO POLAND WITH MY WIFE SINCE 1990!

Excellent that you got Sir Rog on....next get Theodore Dalrymple!!

A worthy Sir at last.

I want to be as wise as Sir Roger. Move to the left Attenborough, Sir Roger Scruton is rightly our national treasure.

Enlightening listening to this man.Thank you Mr.Scruton.

Fantastic interview. Sir Roger is spot-on with regards the current state of universities.

Great interview. I don't understand why this channel hasn't more subscribers. I tell everyone I know about it.

Congratulations @New Culture Forum for breaking 1 million views, you guys thoroughly deserve it. Your show is a much-needed font of sanity in today's wearisome world of deranged leftists and social justice insanity, and Peter is an absolutely superb and very likeable host.

As with many of us you do believe that you are alone and wondering if you are crazy but now we know all to well nothing could be further from the truth.

A brilliant and inspiring man.

Could listen to Sir Roger whole day long! Thanks for the great interview

This is such a great channel its views should be 10x that

Thank you so much...Sir Roger,.....Brilliant, inciteful, and a real Gentleman...

The most positive ending to a conservative interview ever. It takes someone as wise, and as old, as RS to make such observations.

For so long I have felt lost and at odds with the ideas of so many people who share this country with me. New Culture Forum is thankfully showing me that I am not alone, and this latest video with Sir Roger Scruton has made me feel more clear about what I see as right and wrong. Thank you.

It never ceases to amaze me that people complain about imperfect sound or extraneous noises picked up during recording. You are getting this conversation for free. Seemingly the more you provide for people the more the expect. An intelligent and inquiring mind focuses in on the conversation and can easily block out interferences just as you would if listening to a speech live at a public event.

The Tory party has become too PC too eager to privatise which ends up costing us more and has bizarre foreign policy, Sir Roger is my kind of Conservative Conserving the good not needed in the horrible Tory party any more.

I hate it when architectural intentions get subverted even in modern times. A lovely rippling water feature with rocks in the Queensland art gallery has been messed with by a tacky walkover and in a tropical regional town a similar water feature surrounding a theatre was filled in with cement. Strangely, unlike the NSW gallery overlooking the harbour the Brisbane gallery affords no glimpse of the river beside which it rests. Thanks Sir Roger for defending beauty which is always more functional than the opposite.

Thank you, Sir. You are a good interviewer. You know when to pause.

A very brave man with principles, thankfully we have Sir Roger to speak the truth about contemporary society. Speaking the truth today is very dangerous. Too many folk want ugliness and go with the flow, whereas we must defend values in our contemporary world.

Great show and Legendary Guest! Thank You.

Very informative, interesting and enjoyable.

Thank you for giving me a bit of hope and comfort in these depressing times.

Your best guest yet - you've already hit your peak! haha

Your channel is wonderful. I thank you so much for your great work. Please keep it up.

The morale of this interview is that right minded people should never speak to MSM or read their nonsense. Let them die of neglect.

UK Education system is controlled by the state, even at university level, they say teach this or you won't get the funding - the state has been gradually pushing out real education in favour of vacuous rubbish and, in many subjects at secondary school level, has almost totally succeeded - the state realises how dangerous it is to have genuinely educated people and does its utmost to stop the whole process, often in the name of political correctness.

Well if the standard of interview stays the same success will continue.

To the new PM and Tory leader (Boris?) - your first job is to re-instate this gentleman and to give him an apology for the cowardly treatment by your predecessor.

RIP Sir Roger, Your wisdom and courage shall be missed. God Speed.

RIP Roger Scruton. How we need your wisdom...

i loved this video and guest, much thanks.

How long before we do all 'get together and do something about this'? - I for one am beginning to lose the will to live. What a great channel this is.

Fascinating man! Really enjoyed this conversation.

Born to become wise - not born a genius. Genius can't save us now - only wisdom can show us the way. The genius lives a harsh life. Hopefully Scruton will show future generations that wisdom is a habit - and a habit to be admired.Being wise gives you greater happiness.

Brilliant guests!!

I can listen to Sir Roger for hours on his recollections. How very sad that he was viciously attacked and hounded out of his position by a complete no body and the social media lynch mobs. Without even a whimper from the Conservative government, just goes to show the conservatives are but a name only and have lost their way completely in traditional values and defending one of their own. Thank goodness Douglas Murray, Sir Rogers friend, got a copy of the transcript recording and the truth as always came out. What wicked people fall under the guise of journalism!

I notice that his mere presence causes the left wing to be sawn off at about 21 minutes and 21 seconds. Yes, even the sound effects are fabulous when Mr. Scruton speaks since all noise in the air is transformed by the sound of truth.

Great stuff. Many thanks. I wish I could afford to attend his workshops!

The strong positive point about the scandalous sacking of Sir Roger Scruton is the great publicity it has accorded him. He has become known on social networks by people who might not have otherwise been aware of him and thus has been adopted by a larger circle of like-minded, conservative thinkers and sympathisers.

44:10 - “One should never forget that one’s greatest friend in this life is death.”

I have deep concerns that we in the Conservative party are swinging more left, Sir Roger shines a light here. Woke and the fear of not daring to mention traditional Conservative values seem rife. Mrs May has been poor for the Conservatives and the country, lets hope the next PM puts us back on track fearlessly.

Much respect, for Sir Roger. If he could see what is is happening now, 18 months later.

The best advocate of true conservative ideas, Sir Roger Scruton I salute you.

The conservative movement has failed. It has failed to conserve any pride in our culture or understanding of the causes of disparity in our relevant circumstance. The conservatives have failed to conserve even their own brand of politics. The party is embarrassed of its own position, cannot win PC debates because they are an arena detached from reason and reality. I heard a conservative say the other day the party was a Broadchurch? Accept on every major issue from Gay marriage, the justification of marxist feminism, so called LGBT rights, women's sovereignty over abortion, welfare programmes, social mobility, denial of demographic significance and immigration. The most disparity between the two parties is a difference of a couple of % in tax rates. Islamophobia? We ought not to give in to the poisonous language, why would any conservative that wants to conserve anything good fail to oppose the Islamisation of the nation, a foreign ideology? Most individual conservatives recognise the desperate need to resist this hostile influence but as a party, the PC rules make it impossible for any large body to stray from the acceptable parameters of discourse as defined by Marxist students, to comply with their own deranged, philosophically inconsistent, intersectional ideology and perceptions of equality, at odds with freedom, logic or reality. The conservative party should be correct, not politically correct. It should be just, not socially just. Do they acknowledge their core tenant to conserve? Should we not take the word literally? As the labour parties mask has now slipped revealing their true marxist nature, shining through past their obligation to the working class, who they have abandoned and betrayed for the socially 'disenfranchised'. Should the conservatives have a more defined core message? Borris said fuck business with relation to Brexit, honouring the more nodal pursuit of nationalism over the free markets that a beginning to represent some of our biggest threats. The left is now nothing more than a anti white cult. The right must come to stand, and be proud to stand for the collective white interest. Individualism is void in the climate of identity politics we inhabit, it is like claiming you are not fighting while you are getting beaten by a gang. Cultural Marxism and political correctness create a cultural environment with strict perimeters, defining the acceptable ranges of social opinions. The media, the propaganda arm of the establishment are closer to the corridors of power than the public, excusing them not holding them to account and failing in any obligation to be impartial. They are a dogmatic, self serving, self congratulating, middle class elite, absurdly ignorant of their own unfounded prejudice's, resulting in an unquestionable and unaccountable church of marxism. The whole structure needs to be demolished their is no use continuing a game, heavily rigged against us. “ABOVE ALL WAR BRINGS IT HOME TO THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HE IS NOT ALTOGETHER AN INDIVIDUAL. IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE AWARE OF THIS MEN WILL DIE ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE”

Great channel, greetings from Poland

RIP Sir Roger. A very great man.

Weren’t we fortunate to have Sir Roger in our lives. This my nth time of listening to this interview. Thank you Peter.

Excellent, thank you. How about Douglas Murray, Melanie Phillips or Peter Hitchens?

They have no conception of anything which is why it is so dangerous to hand power to emotionally unstable and driven people who have not and NEVER will earn the right to wield such power!

I would argue that the "omni-present eye" observing us exists today in western "liberal" democracies - and that it also sees much more than it ever did in the USSR.

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Roger Scrutton, Philosopher, Scholar, Knight, Spy, and all round Good Egg..

Thank you Roger for enlightening me so much

Budapest has this beauty Sir Roger Scruton is speaking of.

re: art school. I went to one of Canada's more "reputable" fine art / design universities, and what Scruton says here is very accurate. I was lucky to have a great experience in that I went in a bit older than the children that were there, and went in without the obsession of social status that most of the student body had. Those of us, both students and faculty, that were focused on the kind of artistic values Scruton speaks fo, ultimately found each other, and we all produced actual WORK together, while the splashers really didn't produce anything at all. There's hope. Duchamp's joke is finally getting old.

I admire Sir Roger's optimism at the end, I only wish I could share it. Thank you Peter for another excellent interview.

I recognise everything Roger says having been to a leading art college in London in the 90’s. No one seemed capable of discussing or thinking about art unless it was in convoluted unintelligible ways. Most students were spoon fed Derrida and Lacan without any grounding in alternative art history or theory. Asking to be actually taught technique was like farting in your tutors face. I watched talented figurative artists being discouraged from their reactionary dabbling. I went my own way and found some real ideas in Plato,Tolstoy or Freud. Having studied at postgraduate level I found similar fossilised Marxist dogma. My worst experience was attending seminars about culture and education in Israel/Palestine. A very difficult thing to study but presented in such a way that assumed an automatic biase. Any fair minded concern for the Israelis position was seen as pro-Zionist. I agree that humanities students now seem poorly read and unquestioning, tragic.

“Undigested venom towards the culture they should long to be part of” a.k.a. resentment. The victim mentality has many hidden psychological payoffs mixed in. add in the groupthink that reinforces your victim beliefs and you are truly screwed. The number one pay off from the victim mentality is you don’t have to take responsibility for your life because all your problems are caused by external forces.

My favourite channel Thank you Peter

one of my favorite channels,

Great interview. Let's hope for a more intelligent future.

Thank you Sir Roger, your film on beauty ,made mee realise what was wrong in the UK after I had spent 10 yrs in Italy. Now Italy has ugly parts in the cities ,but there is always something of beauty to see nearby.The environment reflects the contents of our minds therefore it seems we have to endure a period of suffering.It will end one day and humans will have evolved because of their suffering. I am sad that we have to be woken in this way but we did create it,we have no wisdom .The denunciation letters are appearing everywhere, it has begun...

A brilliant man, may he rest in peace.

guest wishlist. godfrey bloom, mark steyn, raheem kassam, lt cdr brian gerrish, morrissey.

What a beautiful mind.

Excellent piece. Shame about the builders.

The 'Letter of Denunciation' is alive and well in British Universities. I speak with authority in this matter because I have just been purged from my job at Manchester Metropolitan University by just such a letter. My crime? Publicly supported the view of the Home Secretary with regard to Miss Begum and her nationality. It was not the students who denounced me (they were happy to debate the matter), but the staff to whom free speech was and is an anathema. Three members of staff stated that I was in breach of the Equality and Diversity Policy and Dignity at Work policy of the university. After being tried by an in-house Kangaroo court I was summarily dismissed without pay. Or, to put it another way, expressing a view which was in accord with that of Sajid Javid was the equivalent of hitting another member of staff or a student. Just give that some thought.

"putting your ego on display" is that the current world we live in - if so then does it not then not equal beauty

I don't always agree with Sir Rodge but he's simply one of our best writers - incredibly erudite, clear, uncompromising and gently stoical... I used to read his wine column in the New Statesman in the days when it was more or less readable...and it was always the most articulate piece in there. Still don't know much about wine though...

I can say a few words about architecture in the UK: I stopped trying to be creative because the councils will reject your proposal. Unless you are building the same shit as everything else around your project it stands little to no chance of approval. Had so many creative projects rejected I just gave up and do the same old, sometimes disgusting, design and get approved.