Contributor(s): Dr Rupert Read, Professor Roger Scruton | On the basis of a shared interest in planetary survival, can we forge an alliance across the left/right rift in our culture? Rupert Read is chair of the Green House thinktank, East of England Green Party co-ordinator and a reader in Philosophy at UEA. Roger Scruton is a philosopher, writer and consultant who holds visiting positions at St Andrews University and the University of Oxford.