Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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I like Liz, but Liz has this terrible problem.
In early middle age, she now has this large label hung around her neck, which says, I give good ideas a bad name.
It's contaminating and tragic.
Boris, of course, had one good thing and then a series of catastrophic things.
But fundamentally, all of them were confronting the same problem, that the system works against them.
This is what Dominic Cummings, Boris's right-hand man, for a period of time, I always said it was terribly like the court of Henry VIII.
Dominic was very, very, aspired to do the same sort of things as Thomas Cromwell.
So I wrote a nice piece on Dom and Tom.
And they both came up, of course, against an uppity woman.
who was, you know, actually third wife rather than second wife, with Carrie playing power politics.
But Dominic's analysis is exactly mine, that the structure of government makes it impossible to do anything.
And of course, even Starmer, I mean, Starmer...
rigid, authoritarian, unimaginative, a complete product of this system, and indeed somebody who invented it.
And I think it's important that we realize just how much guilt, and I use that word, there's going to be another volume written in 10 or 20 years.
It will be like Michael Foote's volume on those who advocated appeasement.
It will be called The Guilty Men.
and they will be hell if Britain survives.
Those headed by somebody like Blair and Brown and with Starmer very high on the list, they will be held in the same contempt and hatred as those who were responsible for appeasement.
And I think, in fact, those who were responsible for appeasement were actually sensible, but that's another matter, because they were just making sure we could actually fight a war when we actually declared it.
Whereas what Brown and Blair and Starmer did, Starmer, right at the beginning,
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