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Where We Are
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: History, Europe
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Summary
Following his highly acclaimed and best-selling book England: An Elegy (Bloomsbury Continuum), Roger Scruton now seeks to assess the basis of national sentiment and loyalty at a time when the United Kingdom must redefine its position in the world.
To what are our duties owed and why? How do we respond to the pull of globalisation and mass migration that are erasing the face of our country, to the rise of Islam and to the decline of Christian belief and the culture our ancestors built on? Do we accept these as inevitable, or do we resist them? If we resist them, on what basis do we build? In order to answer these questions, we need to revisit the foundations of our national experience.
Scruton surveys the British legacy - social, legal, cultural and political - and animates those sentiments which attach us to it. In so doing he answers the most pressing question - how do we include in our national identity the various sources of opposition to it?
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- Kid Ooshi
- 06-09-18
Nicely read and well balanced arguments
Despite leaving me feeling at times gloomy about where we are and where we could be heading as a country, I found this a very illuminating book.
Whilst it could be hard listening for the more liberal elements of society, the arguments for and against certain points are balanced and well presented.
Great, unhurried narration also makes this title well worth a listen.
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- Azura S
- 04-12-20
A Solid Declaration Of Where And Who We Are
I am sure that there will be many who, without reading this book, declare it to be something that it is not. Yet, this simple hymn to the right kind of nationalism is exactly what many in power need to listen to even if they refuse to do so. Scruton sees neither wokeness nor racism at every turn, but explains where the ever-widening political divide is stemming from and how to bridge it. An excellent book though some of it needs re-examining in light of our clown show government and submissive public in the face of the current crisis.
5 people found this helpful
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- D Reading
- 04-03-20
Excellent
Very good indeed. Sir Roger puts into lucid words many of my vague thoughts and feelings that I would never be able to articulate if I spent my life trying.
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- John Doherty
- 14-01-18
Essential listening
Essential listening for all especially our nations next generation of adults. Lots of ideas and principles to rally around.
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- GEV
- 05-06-22
illuminating unspoken concerns
Some thoughts made me shudder as to their frankness, nevertheless without such matters being aired then the issue will continue and compound. Reference to Brexit and impact of EU on U.K. provides plenty of areas for more detailed consideration. Overall worth listening too if nothing more than to make one consider how we move on.
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- Kevin O'Brien
- 02-06-22
More relevant now than ever
A brilliantly insightful analysis of Britain past and present. A passionate argument for local community, patriotism founded in the nation state, and small c conservatism. What an intelligent and deeply humane thinker Scruton was...we've lost a great public intellectual.
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- MR A PATTERSON
- 28-05-22
A genuinely conservative take
Roger Scruton was everything a real conservative should be, and that’s reflected in this book. There are few people today who can make the same observations and well thought out arguments that Scruton could.
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- Neil Brett
- 10-11-21
Rejoice
A first-fruit of Brexit: the freedom to tackle subjects hitherto censored. Scruton argues courteously but without ducking the major issues.
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- LMC
- 18-10-21
Great book, great narration
I'm a huge fan of the late Roger Scruton but I was never drawn to this book in print, fearing that it would be only of topical and local interest. I should have known better. In Where We Are, Scruton delivers a heartfelt plea for our shared sense of home, an idea which is as timeless and international as any I can think of. The narration by Saul Reichlin is beautifully judged and mirrors the warmth of Scruton's prose. I will probably listen to this a second time.
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- Mit. (John)
- 18-09-21
Nice.
Good narrator: Clear intonations and pronunciations.
Content is very simple compared to Scruton's other books, but it is written just as well.
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- Philo
- 09-12-17
What England brought to the world, and may again
This work is like catnip for Anglophiles, but I hope it gets a wider hearing. The author's love for England, the very soil and the virtues of its people, is touching. He recognizes what is beautiful in what is small, and personal. And he sees a connection from that to the overarching events of cultural brilliance that England has had, age after age.
I regret that, in my academic environment, those with too-common half-wits have managed to read a few sources and thereupon to close minds and to choose sides too hastily, maintaining staunchly that either (1) such an empire was merely a vampire (and that it admittedly was, in part) or else (2) it was the most perfectly good thing ever (and all the disaffected should doff hats reverently, take their scraps humbly, and never question that). This work definitely comes down on the pro-England side (and I would say, England as it was from the mossy primordial past through, say, Churchill), but with a sincerity and a clear telling. I happen to agree that such things as the Magna Carta and the Common Law were momentous and critical moments in the rise of humankind, still resonating (hopefully, into the future too) across our lives, and however dimly perceived, into our every day. And I think, for humankind's sake and England's, this bears repeating. I like that a book takes this view into the present, trying times, in the hands of a very bright author.
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