Philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton dies aged 75

Roger Scruton, the British conservative thinker, author and architecture critic, who was co-chair of Building Better, Building Beautiful, has passed away at the age of 75.
Scruton, who died after a short battle with cancer, was a controversial figure throughout his career as a right-wing philosopher.
Author of The Aesthetics of Architecture and The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism, he delivered lectures and wrote extensively on his contempt for the work o