1944-2020  Like Edmund Burke and Kenneth Clarke, Roger Scruton was a typical product of that liberal British tradition that knew to combine conservatism with a lack of preconceptions, and made clarity something more than a mere courtesy to readers. B

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The conservative British philosopher died on 12 January at the age of 75, succumbing to cancer. A public intellectual and prolific writer, he left behind – besides several novels and two operas – over fifty books on a diversity of themes, from huntin