David Starkey

And, and no, I don't think it does.

There are people like David Starkey who are talking about a great repeal bill.

There are people out there in the Conservatives and in Reform talking about various aspects of it.

But I don't think there's enough of a, uh, broad understanding on the right that the problem is the Blairite state.

And I happen to agree with her analysis.

I think she's correct.

Part of the problem is when she's then pushed, "Who else shares your analysis?" The only person she named was David Starkey.

Mm.

And Lord Ashcroft found this.

He found there are fewer Conservative fair-weather voters, mainly because it's an older party, it's a part of older people's identity, there are plenty of Conservatives like David Starkey, for example, who acknowledges all the problems the party has, but in his soul still wants to be called a Tory.

They still want to go to the Carlton Club.

They remember growing up and going to the Conservative Associations.

the bullets on the wrong people.

On that bombshell, Dr. David Starkey, thank you very much indeed.

An absolutely fascinating, engaging, challenging conversation.

I really appreciate it.

The artist consistently reminded of the circumstances he grew up in, in which he has since outgrown.

David Starkey comments,

you know, you know, you know, a bloody lot of them survived.

And this loops through me.

Especially now.

Historians like Eric Ives, David Starkey, Susanna Lipscomb, Eamon Duffy, they have unearthed genuinely new research.

Like what kind of research?

Diplomatic dispatches are being retranslated with better context.

One of the smartest people I've ever met, one of the most interesting.

And it's not just because I'm an Anglophile, but Dr. David Starkey is brilliant.

He's also been the target of a cancel culture deplatforming.

So he's been in the trenches of the culture war too.

Tonight, a feature interview with a leading British scholar and historian.

You're not going to want to miss this.

David Starkey is one of a kind.

It's September 25th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

I'm not trying to cut you off, but you have to occasionally pause for breath so I could ask you a question.

I always wanted to get him and David Starkey having a conversation

to see who would get the last

word.

Speaks to the political cowardice of our age.

And I think it actually fits very neatly in the broader trends in politics in this country over the last 15 to 20 years, the David Starkey type thesis.

So if you think about this as the economic limb of a government, what's controlled but not responsibility, If you think about the creation of quangos as the political and administrative limb of this theory, and if you think of the creation of the Supreme Court and the rise in power of unelected judges as the judicial limb of this thesis, you can see that this is actually a broad and sweeping attempt at to try and, there goes the hands again, a broad and sweeping attempt to try and basically say, you know, for politicians, I want to have my cake and eat it too.

The question would be, why has this class of politicians emerged that seemingly want to have power, but don't necessarily want to take any accountability for that power?

And so you don't get to act like Britain when it was basically 100% native white British, if you don't have those demographics.

And what we've done instead is, after Singapore recreated our successes, we decided to reverse engineer the demographics of Singapore, even worse actually, because the white British majority is now fewer than that of the Han Chinese majority of Singapore, And now we're trying to reverse engineer Singapore as a solution with suggestions of the likes of David Starkey or Catherine Bubblesing with like state managed Islam and running the entire country like the Michaela School and all encompassing inclusive British identity that is secular and inoffensive and based on shared liberal principles.

Not going to work, actually.

Rather than Singapore, we're going to become South Africa or Lebanon because those are the people we've imported and demographics are destiny.