What Happens to Englishmen Who Speak Up for England
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise…
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
-Shakespeare, Richard II
In my lifetime the greatest empire in history, one on which the sun never set, destroyed itself with self-doubt. — Paul Craig Roberts
John Leake remembers:
I often think of my old professor, Roger Scruton, who died on January 12, 2020, just before the Covid pandemic, and I wonder what he would think about Britain today.
The last time I spoke to him was in November 2018, when I congratulated him for being appointed chair of the UK government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.
“I doubt I’ll be allowed to keep the position for long,” he replied. “There are many people who don’t want me in it.”
A few months later, on April 10, 2019, I wasn’t surprised by the news that he was fired. His sacking occurred after a journalist named George Eaton, formerly the deputy editor of the New Statesman, published an interview with him. Eaton used partial and edited quotes—wildly out of context—to frame Scuton as a racist and homophobe.
Following the firing, Eaton posted an Instagram picture of himself drinking a bottle of champagne with the caption: “The feeling when you get right-wing racist and homophobe Roger Scruton sacked as a Tory government adviser.”
Scruton spent much of his professional life trying to define and defend England in accordance with his distinctly conservative worldview. Lord Salisbury (Prime Minister 1885 – 1892 and 1895 – 1902) was his ideal British statesman.
Sir Roger knew that his life’s work was an uphill battle. Once, over dinner at his farm, he explained to me that the idealistic project of trying to conserve a culture is doomed by the fact that we only become fully conscious of a culture worth conserving when it is already passing away. To illustrate his point, he cited Hegel’s famous remark in his preface to the Philosophy of Right:
“only in the maturity of reality does the ideal appear as counterpart to the real, apprehends the real world in its substance, and shapes it into an intellectual kingdom. When philosophy paints its grey in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known. The owl of Minerva takes its flight only with the gathering of the dusk.”
In plain English, “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.”
This article was originally published on Courageous Discourse.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/what-is-left-of-england-and-the-english-people/
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