I recommend Roger Scruton: I have been reading Roger Scruton, off and on, for years now but somehow, just recently, I seem to have missed him so it was a surprise and a pleasure to come across him writing for the BBC News on-line magazine. My computer opens to that page by default, not, I hasten to say that I ever read the detail because I wouldn't trust the BBC further than I can spit into a gale, but it does give me a quick overview of the headlines of the day. This morning, idly scrolling down, I spotted Roger Scruton's name on a side bar under the heading of 'Features'. It was the second of two articles by him on the age-old problem of the uneasy relationship between state and religion, or, at a more fundamental level, between God and government. This, of course, lies at the very heart of the troubles in which Turks, Syrians and Egyptians find themselves entangled. In his usual clear English, Scruton dissects the problem without, of course, offering any solution. You can read them in order, here and here.
More rumbles later . . .
