1. Roger Scruton singled out Peter Singer, a prominent Australian philosopher and animal-rights activist, for criticism.
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2. Roger Scruton told The Guardian in 2010 that he would no longer defend the view that revulsion against homosexuality can be justified.
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7. Roger Scruton is a senior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
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8. Roger Scruton took an unpaid research professorship at Buckingham University, and in 2010 was awarded an unpaid visiting professorship at the University of Oxford to teach graduate classes on aesthetics.
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11. Roger Scruton took a year's sabbatical from Birkbeck in 1990 and spent it working in Brno in the Czech Republic.
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12. Roger Scruton wrote that editing The Salisbury Review effectively ended his academic career in the United Kingdom.
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15. Roger Scruton told The Guardian that his colleagues at Birkbeck vilified him over the book.
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17. Roger Scruton graduated in 1965, then spent time overseas, some of it teaching at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour in Pau, France, where he met his first wife, Danielle Laffitte.
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21. Roger Scruton was born in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire to John "Jack" Scruton, a teacher from Manchester, and his wife, Beryl Claris Scruton, and was raised with his two sisters in Marlow and High Wycombe.
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23. Roger Scruton became known in the 1980s for helping to establish underground academic networks in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, for which he was awarded the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit by President Vaclav Havel in 1998.
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24. Roger Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France.
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