There is contemptible, there is mega-contemptible, and there is the British Conservative Party. In saying this I am not referring, though I might, to the hopeless and undemocratic muddle over Brexit. Nor am I referring to the craven refusal (lest France be offended!) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. I am referring to the shocking and inexcusable treatment of Sir Roger Scruton, Britain’s leading conservative philosopher (which means, more or less, Britain&r…
