Edmund Burke

A great Irishman, a great conservative, and very often the figure to whom traditionalist conservatives appeal as the fountainhead of their ideas. For instance, Peter Hitchens usually describes himself as a Burkean conservative. I don't know if Roger Scruton calls himself a Burkean, but he would seem to fit the bill perfectly. And then there is the Burkean online journal in Ireland.

But who reads him?

I don't! Today is my last day of work before Christmas and I've been taking Christmas reading from the shelves. I did look at the Burke shelves, but the volumes of his speeches are so big and intimidating...I like what I've heard of his ideas second-hand, but always second-hand...

I thought he deserved a thread of his own!