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Scruton screws it up again
SOLOMON HUGHES does not mourn the second departure of the sleazy Tory philosopher sacked for his vile views

TORY philosopher Roger Scruton recently stepped into public view, and promptly embarrassed himself with a load of bigoty-sounding comments that got him sacked from his recent advisory job for the Tory government.
Scruton has been an accident waiting to happen ever since Housing Minister James Brokenshire gave him an advisory job last year.
Brokenshire has now sacked Scruton after he made some — entirely predictable — offensive comments in an interview with the New Statesman.
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