Professor Roger Scruton is one of the UK's best-known philosophers, contributing regular opinion pieces for national newspapers. He was a co-founder of the Conservative Action Group, which helped build support for the election of Margaret Thatcher. Since 1982 he has edited the right wing Salisbury Review, which was a vocal champion of Thatcherism. Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he has lectured in philosophy at Birbeck College, London and at Boston University in Massachusetts, USA. He has written a number of books including popular introductions to philosophy, accounts of the tradition of conservative political philosophy, and fiction. He is not afraid of holding unpopular opinions. He is for the death penalty and has written a book called On Hunting, in which he celebrates fox hunting. "I have never seen the difference between keeping a cat to control mice and keeping a pack of hounds to control foxes", he says. His An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy was sued for claiming the pop group Pet Shop Boys made a minimal contribution to songs recorded in their name. He describes left-wingers and radicals as "arrested in the state of adolescent rebellion".