{"id":22411,"date":"2019-04-19T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2019-04-19T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:48:58","slug":"comments-get-scruton-sacked-from-building-beautiful-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22411","title":{"rendered":"Comments get Scruton sacked from Building Beautiful commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20396\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UK_gov_garden_communities_24088.png\" alt=\"houses\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>Roger Scruton has been taken off the government panel tasked with building public support for new homes \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/building-better-building-beautiful-commission-draft-terms-of-reference\">\u2018Building Better, Building Beautiful\u2019 Commission<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; because of controversial comments on Islamophobia and antisemitism.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BD writes:<\/p>\n<p>The architects\u2019\u00a0b\u00eate noire was appointed to chair the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government\u2019s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/news\/architects-sidelined-as-scruton-chairs-governments-beautiful-homes-commission\/5096395.article\">in the autumn<\/a>, and had been due to issue his final report later this year.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement\u2026 MHCLG confirmed that housing secretary James Brokenshire had taken the step of removing the 75-year-old philosopher from the role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/news\/ugly-comments-get-scruton-sacked-from-building-beautiful-commission\/5098946.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background see the IHBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NewsBlog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Scruton has been taken off the government panel tasked with building public support for new homes \u2013 the \u2018Building Better, Building Beautiful\u2019 Commission\u00a0 &#8211; because of controversial comments on Islamophobia and antisemitism. image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22413,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}