''The Salisbury Review'' is a quarterly

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of conservative thought". It was founded in 1982 by the Salisbury Group, who sought to articulate and further traditional intellectual conservative ideas. The ''Review'' was named after

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for ...

, the British prime minister at the end of the nineteenth century. The philosopher

Roger Scruton Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, (; 27 February 194412 January 2020) was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of Conservatism in the United Kingdom, c ...

was the chief editor for eighteen years and published it through his

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From 2000 the editor was the historian and hoaxer

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. The managing editor from 2006 to 2012 was Merrie Cave. The editor as of 2012 is Myles Harris who is a practising doctor and journalist. Contributors have included

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, Roger Watson and Peter Mullen.

History

The publication was founded in 1982 by the Salisbury Group, who chose Roger Scruton as editor for his defence of

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in ''The Meaning of Conservatism'' (1980) in opposition to the Thatcherite proponents of the

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. The Salisbury group itself was set up in 1978 to support the view of the Third Marquess of Salisbury that "good government consisted of doing as little as possible." In ''

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'' of 21 September 2002 Scruton wrote an article, "My Life Beyond the Pale", in which he explained what he saw as the difficulties "of finding people to write in an explicitly conservative journal". He noted that finding subscribers was initially difficult, and that

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had told him that to "try to encapsulate onservatismin a philosophy was the kind of quaint project that Americans might undertake". He also wrote that the editorship :"had cost me many thousand hours of unpaid labour, a hideous character assassination in ''

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'', three lawsuits, two interrogations, one expulsion, the loss of a university career in Britain, unendingly contemptuous reviews, Tory suspicion, and the hatred of decent liberals everywhere. And it was worth it."

Honeyford affair

A controversy involving

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, headmaster of Drummond Middle School in

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, gave ''The Salisbury Review'' much publicity in 1984. According to Scruton: "This episode was our first great success, and led to the 600 subscriptions that we needed." An article written by Honeyford for the ''Review'' in 1984 eproduction of Honeyford's 1984 article/ref> discussed themes on

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, culture and assimilation, and educational performance.Obituary: Ray Honeyford
''Daily Telegraph'', 8 February 2012 He had already made public his views in two letters in 1982, to the ''

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'' (TES) and a local Bradford paper, and then in an extended article in the ''TES'' in November 1982. In that, he rehearsed a number of points, in particular on where the onus for integration and the limiting factors for educational performance lie in the home family environment in

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families. He attacked what he saw as the misplaced use of

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in schools, and '

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' in the form of scrutiny of textbook material. The 1984 ''Salisbury Review'' article "Education and Race — an Alternative View" covered similar ground, but caused a national outcry. Honeyford had already been in discussion with his

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after the 1982 ''TES'' article, in the context of Bradford Council guidelines on educational aims issued in that year, but had not been disciplined. After the second article he was disciplined, and was also the target of a campaign for his dismissal. He was sacked, reinstated and then took early retirement, about two years after ''The Salisbury Review'' article was published.

References and sources

References

Sources

* Halstead, Mark. (1988) ''Education, Justice and Cultural Diversity: an Examination of the Honeyford Affair, 1984-85''.

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