 The Salisbury Review Spring 2021 Cover | |
| Editor | Myles Harris |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website | salisburyreview |
The Salisbury Review is a quarterlyBritish "magazine ofconservative thought". It was founded in 1982 by the Salisbury Group, who sought to articulate and further traditional intellectual conservative ideas.
TheReview was named afterRobert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the British prime minister at the end of the nineteenth century. The philosopherRoger Scruton was the chief editor for eighteen years and published it through hisClaridge Press. From 2000 the editor was the historian and hoaxerA. D. Harvey. The managing editor from 2006 to 2012 wasMerrie Cave. The editor as of 2012 is Myles Harris who is a practising doctor and journalist.
Contributors have includedAntony Flew,Christie Davies,Enoch Powell,Margaret Thatcher,Václav Havel,Hugh Trevor-Roper,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,Norman Stone,Theodore Dalrymple,Roger Watson andPeter Mullen.
The publication was founded in 1982 by theSalisbury Group, who chose Roger Scruton as editor for his defence oftraditional conservatism inThe Meaning of Conservatism (1980) in opposition to the Thatcherite proponents of thefree market. The Salisbury group itself was set up in 1978 to support the view of the Third Marquess of Salisbury that "good government consisted of doing as little as possible."
InThe Spectator of 21 September 2002 Scruton wrote an article, "My Life Beyond the Pale", in which he explained what he saw as the difficulties "of finding people to write in an explicitly conservative journal". He noted that finding subscribers was initially difficult, and thatMaurice Cowling had told him that to "try to encapsulate [conservatism] in a philosophy was the kind of quaint project that Americans might undertake". He also wrote that the editorship
A controversy involvingRay Honeyford, headmaster of Drummond Middle School inBradford,Yorkshire, gaveThe Salisbury Review much publicity in 1984. According to Scruton: "This episode was our first great success, and led to the 600 subscriptions that we needed."
An article written by Honeyford for theReview in 1984[1] discussed themes onethnicity, culture and assimilation, and educational performance.[2] He had already made public his views in two letters in 1982, to theTimes Educational Supplement (TES) and a local Bradford paper, and then in an extended article in theTES in November 1982.[2] In that, he rehearsed a number of points, in particular on where the onus for integration and the limiting factors for educational performance lie in the home family environment inimmigrant families. He attacked what he saw as the misplaced use ofmulticulturalism in schools, and 'political correctness' in the form of scrutiny of textbook material.
The 1984Salisbury Review article "Education and Race — an Alternative View"[1] covered similar ground, but caused a national outcry. Honeyford had already been in discussion with hislocal education authority after the 1982TES article, in the context of Bradford Council guidelines on educational aims issued in that year, but had not been disciplined. After the second article he was disciplined, and was also the target of a campaign for his dismissal. He was sacked, reinstated and then took early retirement, about two years afterThe Salisbury Review article was published.[3]
Ray Honeyford
