All right. Wonderful. There are still some seats in the front, and if you're looking for seats, if you don't like where you're seated, Julius, you're okay there? That's fine? All right. We'll get started. Well, ladies and gentlemen, good evening, and welcome to Socrates in the city. It's a joy to be with you at the absolutely

fabulous university club. We love this club. We've done a number of... Is your Union League guy here? What's the problem?

It's always a joy to do our events at these different clubs.

This club in particular we've enjoyed over the years.

We've had, I think, no real ugliness erupting at any of our events,

although I remember about two years ago.

You remember that some of you were here.

Os Guinness went after those hoodlums with the pool queue. You remember that?

Yeah. It was like a scene out of walking tall, you know? Buford Pusser goes to Oxford. You know,

have you heard of that? All right, get out. But it turns out they were reading Blackberries during his talk, and Oz just won't put up with that.

He's very tall. He could see them doing it.

So don't do that this evening.

Of course, we're not going to have that kind of ugliness erupt tonight, because, as you probably already know, Roger Scruton does not fool around with such civilized

niceties as billiard cues.

No, he dispatches scoundrels and ruffians with a cudgel.

A cudgel or a truncheon?

I always get one of the two.

Is it a cudgel?

Yeah.

Which he

he got it, he pried it from the cold dead hands of a Bobby in a 1972 riot in Leeds.

You've heard of Leeds? Excellent. Wonderful. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a,

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