Heh.
David Starkey is a historian (speciality: Tudor Britain), TV presenter and a waspish old queen. He was once described as “rudest man in Britain”. He’s another one that made the journey from left to right and he’s generally worth listening to.
He’s been cancelled more times than you’ve had TV dinners (are there still TV dinners?). Like:
Starkey suggested that people should not “go on about” slavery because it had been abolished in 1833 and that “slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived”.
And:
Starkey said that “white culture” is under threat from the Black Lives Matter movement and proponents of critical race theory who are “not what they pretend to be” and who he described are attempting to destroy “the entire legitimacy of the Western cultural tradition”. He stated that said conservatives had to defend the “uniqueness of the Anglo-American tradition” against “barbarians”.
He disputed the “idea that they are there to defend black lives” as “preposterous”, saying that “they only care about the symbolic destruction of white culture” that they see as “fundamentally morally defective”, comparing it to “exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust”.
Anyway, he gave a great talk yesterday about the future of the right. It’s about British politics, so probably not of interest to many here, but I thought it was worth a post for the quote at the top alone.
March 17, 2025 — 7:17 pm
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