book, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts From a Life, it influenced a new generation of neo-con thinkers including Charles Moore, former editor of The Daily Telegraph, and former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Scruton himself offers the French post-war President Charles De Gaulle as a model because the General defined the French nation in terms of its high culture, while detesting the philosopher Michael Foucault, who he says was 'one of the gurus' of his students, for shallow relativism and for teaching that `truth' requires inverted commas. British neoconservatism has also been directly influenced by its US counterpart. One example is the Henry Jackson Society, founded in Cambridge in 2005, and named after Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, a key influence on US neoconservatism. People associated with British neoconservatism The list includes public people identified as personally neoconservative. Politicians Michael Gove – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Conservative MP for Surrey Heath See also Euston Manifesto Notes Bat Ye'or defined "dhiminitude" as the condition of the non-Muslim persons forced to live under Islamic law in the context of Jihad. References Further reading Arun Kundnani, How are thinktanks shaping the political agenda on Muslims in Britain?, Institute of Race Relations, 2 September 2008. John Kampfner, The British neoconservatives, New Statesman, 12 May 2003. Category:UK - Neocon Europe, accessed 3 June 2009. Neoconservatism Conservatism in the United Kingdom