“I don’t think Joakim would have been on his way home without the enormous support that the media, organizations, and politicians have shown,” wife Sofie Axelsson said.
If journalism helped Scruton to synthesise ideas in a single thought, it also displayed the rich literary gifts which first brought him to the attention of the British public in the 1970s. For him, journalism was much more than conveying information, news, or opinion. It was an attempt to stir the imagination of the reader so that the ‘unfashionable opinion’ being expressed might become theirs.
A prominent French journalist is now under police protection after receiving a torrent of death threats over a documentary that sheds light on the catastrophic social impact that mass migration and radical Islam have had on France.
