Roger Scruton was in Australia this week discussing the nature of politics from a conservative position. Here he is with Andrew Bolt. What I found interesting was his discussion of the nature of the left and its perennial opposition which fills its carriers with an emotional overload that prevents rational thought on their behalf and therefore rational discussion. As the left defines itself by what it hates and not, other than in the vaguest terms, by what it is for, it must work to shut out debate since past the invective, there is nothing concrete it seeks or has to say. I only wish Roger had been given more time.