“In acquiring the land we also acquired a mortgage, which meant that we could no longer live from royalties and occasional journalism. Our solution was to set up a business – using my knowledge of the intellectual life and my wife Sophie’s social gifts – offering a new kind of consultancy in public affairs. Thus was founded Horsell’s Farm Enterprises, characterized thus by its business card:
Britain’s leading post-modern rural consultancy, specialists in landscape-maintenance, literary criticism, equitation, hedge-laying, musicology, typesetting, publishing, dry-stone walls, writing, journalism, countryside restoration, museums, composition, pond-management, public affairs, log-cutting, logic-chopping, rare breeds of chicken, sheep, dreams; also hay and straw.”
– Roger Scruton, from his hilarious article in the Spectator, where he defends being paid by tobacco companies to write and place articles in newspapers as a bid to protect Britain’s traditional country life.
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