Jeremy Stangroom

My view is that it's normal for left-wing intellectuals to think that people on the right are deeply immoral - bigoted in various ways, etc. I think it's rarer for conservative intellectuals to think that people on the left are deeply immoral.

Many on the right subscribe to some form of natural law and do indeed belive that leftists are immoral for advocating a redistribution of wealth

Hmmm. 1) Some on the right think this way; 2) I don't think it's true that conservatives of Scruton's ilk are just as likely to think their moderate opponents are evil as leftists (see how Twitter Tankies view centrists, for example).

Agree about twitter tankies seeing those on the right and centre as evil. But are they not a small (but vocal) minority of leftists?

Do you not think the student Left, for example, tends to think political moderation is indicative of moral failing? Difficult because it depends on what one means by left, centrist, right, moderate, etc - for example, conservatives can disagree fundamentally with neo-liberals.

Yes, but student politics in general tends towards high passions and more extreme opinions. Haven't read Scruton's book, but just read a review that claims he portrays Gyorgy Lukacs as 'downright wicked'! Will have to read the book...

Okay, but there are a lot of students, and as a proportion of left activists, they're not insignificant (think Paris 1968). Lukacs - well he was an apologist for Stalin (despite having been imprisoned by Stalin!).

Also, from the review I mentioned (the Guardian): 'Just like his communist-minded opponents, then, Scruton seems to think exclusively in terms of an embattled “us” versus a homogenous “them”.'