I take the war on Roger Scruton personally. The conservative philosopher was recently appointed to some unimportant British government committee on making houses prettier, and the “offence archaeologists” went to work. Digging through his back catalogue, they found that he once said Islamophobia was a dubious concept; he called homosexuality “not normal”; he spoke of a George “Soros empire”. He was guilty in essence of “thinking aloud” and if that’s all it takes to destroy you now, we might as well cut to the chase and put every living philosopher in jail. Most of them would feel at home. You spend much of your time in bed and I hear the drugs are first class.